PSYC 336 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Explicit Memory, Categorical Perception

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

Document Summary

A comparison of the modal model with the current understanding of working memory, acquisition, and storage. Modal model - atkinson and shiffrin (1968) Information first arrives stored in sensory memory. A form of memory that holds on to just-heard or just-seen input in a raw sensory form. Some info is then transferred to long term memory. The place where you hold information while you"re working on it. Sensory memory plays a much smaller role in modern theorizing. Working memory is used instead of short-term memory. Def: the storage system in which information is held while that information is being worked on. Ideas that are currently activated and being worked on by a specific set of operations. The storage system in which we hold all of our knowledge and all our memories. Contains memories that are not currently activated and memories that are activated in working memory. Contains all knowledge specific, general themes, Getting information into, ease of entry episodic.