PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Handshape, The Need, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

The acquisition of memories and the working-memory system v. Working memory only has a small capacity. Ex. visuospatial buffer store visual materials. Episodic buffer helps the executive organize info into a chronological sequence. Patients with amnesia can"t store new info into long-term storage but can recall a story they just heard. Short-term recall relies on the episodic buffer. Use inner hand instead of inner voice . Disrupted if they"re asked to wiggle their fingers during a memory task. Executive control helps whenever you want to rise above habit or routine. Tune your words or ideas to the current circumstances. The same processes control the selection of ideas that are active at any moment in time. Each shift in attention brings new info into working memory. Maintenance rehearsal a rote, mechanical process in which items are continuously cycled through working memory, merely by being repeated over and over. Just focusing on the to-be-remembered items themselves.