PSYC 3404 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Suggestibility, Frontal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex
19 Aug 2016
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Ch 6 study guide: cognitive growth information processing approaches. Information processing approach: considers how people take in, use, and store information. Encoding: initial learning of info, process of taking info in, in some form that is useable to the senses. Storage: maintaining information over time; saving info into memory. Controlled processing: deliberately invest large amounts of effort. Atkinson-shiffrin view of memory storage (explain what each is, and how long information is held in each): Sensory store: where information/stimulus goes when it first enters awareness (fractions of a second) Short-term memory: selective information that you attend to is processed to be held longer (15-20 seconds) Long-term memory: information is sufficiently processed in stm, gets passed on to relatively permanent memory storage (indefinitely) Working memory: alternate for stm, working memory that temporarily holds pieces of information as long as we are working with them. Chunking: taking individual pieces of information and grouping them into larger units.
