PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Memory Span, Explicit Memory, Sketchpad
22 Sep 2017
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Basic model of working memory consists of a controlling attentional system (called the central executive) and two slave systems, an articulatory or phonological loop system and a visuo-spatial sketch pad. Phonological loop characteristics maintains information for about 2 seconds rehearsal. Consists of a phonological store (codes speech-based information), and. But the process that really is the more important process is the central executive, plays an important role in reading, learning new words because it is the process that allows us to manipulate the information. Appears to play an important role in reading. Poor readers tend to have poor short-term memory span acquisition of vocabulary. Information can enter the sketchpad visually or through the generation of a visual image. Access to this store by visual information is obligatory. Might be spatially based information, might be where something is, matrix. The central executive plays an important role in controlling attention.
