PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Memory Rehearsal, Memory Span, Free Recall
12 Mar 2014
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Information processing: complex mental events such as learning, remembering, or deciding actually involved a large number of discrete steps. : each enclosed shape represents a separate event or process, and the arrows represent the flow of information from one event to the next. The research goal was to make the charts more and more complete by analyzing each box into still smaller boxes, continuing until the entire process could be described in terms of elementary information-processing components. The modal model: our information processing involves different kinds of memory (short-term and long-term memory) Short-term memory holds on to information currently in use o. Limited in how much it can hold but, most important, information in short-term memory is instantly and easily available to you. Long-term memory (ltm) contains all of the information you remember. At any point in time, much of the material in ltm lies dormant, neither influencing nor influenced by your current thoughts.
