PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Reticular Formation, Autobiographical Memory, Metamemory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Multistore model information-processing model that depicts information as flowing through three processing units (stores)" the sensory store, the short term store, and the long term store. Sensory store first information processing store, in which stimuli are noticed and briefly available for further processing. Short-term store second information processing store, in which stimuli are retained for several seconds and operated upon (working memory) Long-term store third information processing store, in which information that has been examined and interpreted is permanently stored for later use. Executive control processes the processes involved in regulating attention and determining what to do with the information just gathered or retrieved from long- term memory. Metacognition knowledge about (one"s own) cognition and about the regulation of cognitive activities. Capacity can refer to the amount of space" available to store information, how long information can be retained in a storage unit, or how quickly information can be processed.