PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Alan Baddeley, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Connectionism

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Sometimes we remember things as we"d like to, not how they originally were. Attention: involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. All parts od memory seem to involve active processes (encoding, storage, retrieval: encoding (forming a memory code) The role of attention: focused awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. A filter and is influenced by many factors such as previous experience and present needs issue as to when this happens early or late (seems flexible) Enriched encoding: elaboration: is linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding (i. e. additional associations) Mr. rogers helped children encode concept of cooperation (researcher put children to watch this show and later placed them in real-life situation to see how they helped: visual imagery. Provides a second kind of memory codes (two are codes better than one) People remember vivid imagery: self referent encoding.