PSYC 3290 Chapter Notes -Stroop Effect, Semantic Memory, Memory Span
9 Feb 2013
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The act of comprehending and producing language are performed within the constraints of our information-processing system. This system consists of working memory and long-term memory. A number of issues regarding language processing have been raised. These include whether we primarily use serial or parallel processes, whether we tend to use top- down or bottom-up processes, whether language processes are primarily automatic or controlled, and the extent to which language processing displays modularity. Children appear to process information very differently than adults, but studies of the development of the processing system suggest that most of the system is developmentally invariant. Some important issues is psycholinguistics are not fully addressed in linguistic accounts of language, such as the issue of language processing. Language processing is a joint product of linguistic principles and psychological mechanisms. Contemporary study of memory and information processing began in the late. Working memory-- a form of memory with both storage and processing functions.
