PSYC 2700 Midterm: Definition List - Midterm 2.docx
Document Summary
Our short lived sensory memory registers all or most of the information that hits our visual receptors, but this information decays within less than a second corresponds to the sensory memory stage of the atkinson & shiffrin memory model loop consists of two components: the phonological store, which has a limited capacity and holds information for only a few seconds; and the articulatory rehearsal process, which is responsible for rehearsal that can keep items in the phonological store from decaying. Difference between wm and stm: stm is concerned mainly with storing information for a brief period of time (for example, remembering a phone number), whereas wm is concerned with the manipulation of information that occurs during complex cognition (for example, remembering numbers while reading a paragraph), stm consists of a single component, whereas wm consists of a number of components.
