PSY313H5 Chapter Notes -Metamemory, Procedural Memory, Spaced
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In information processing models, component of working memory that allows information about sounds and language to be kept in consciousness. In craik"s terminology, amount of mental energy a person has available to focus on a. In information-processing models of memory, component of working memory that selects and processes sensory inputs and transforms them into meaningful mental representations; it also can retrieve information from long-term memory. Forms of unconscious learning in which a previously neutral stimulus (one that does not ordinarily elicit a particular involuntary response) comes to elicit the response as a result of repeated association with a stimulus that normally produces the response. In information-processing models, memory for facts and events that can be recalled or recognized and stated verbally or can cause feelings of familiarity; compare with non- declarative memory. In balte"s terminology, extent to which memory can be improved with training.
