EDPE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Mnemonic, Automaticity, Long-Term Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Educational & Counselling Psych
• Course: EDPE 300
• Professor: Scott Conrod

Document Summary

Basic assumptions of cognitive psychology: cognitive psychology: a theoretical perspective that focuses on the mental processes underlying human learning and behavior. 3 components of memory: a sensory register, a working (short-term) memory and a long- term memory. Moving information to working memory: the role of attention: attention: the focusing of mental processes on particular environmental stimuli, whatever students pay attention to (mentally) gets moved into working memory, attention has limited capacity. The cocktail party phenomenon is when multiple conversations are happening at once and the brain can only pay attention to one of them. You should also have students put new information to use, i. e. solve a problem with it. The nature of working (short-term) memory: working memory: a component of memory that holds and processes limited amount of information; also known as short-term memory. Moving information to long-term memory: connecting new information with prior.