PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Change Detection, Dependent And Independent Variables, Implicit Learning

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Christine Millicent Burton

Document Summary

Psy270 lecture 5: long-term memory: systems and processes. Central executive is responsible for retrieving information from the storage systems and ltm. Important for planning what is needed and important for integrating information. Found evidence that the ce does not have any storage capacity. Has resources, but those resources are attention resources, not memory resources. Ce does not store information, only coordinates the storage systems. An important function for ce is regulating relevant and irrelevant information. People who have a better ability to inhibit irrelative information have a higher memory capacity. Better ability to inhibit leads to higher capacity. One condition has two items, another condition has four items. Third condition: presenting four items but telling participants they only had to remember the red ones. Dependent variable: brain activity as measured by erp (the higher the line the higher the brain activity) Divided participants into high working memory capacity groups and low working memory capacity groups.