PS2822 week 3 Memory

Multi-store Model of Memory

Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)

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Working Memory Model

Baddely & Hitch (1974)

The Central Executive

The Phonological Loop

The Visuospatial Sketchpad

Episodic buffer

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The Visuo-Spatial Sketchpad

Visual cache – stores information about visual form and colour.

Inner scribe – deals with spatial and movement information.

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The Central Executive

modality free (resembles
attention) multi purpose processor with its own very
limited storage capacity

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The Episodic Buffer

Temporary storage system that holds
and integrates diverse information from LTM,
phonological loop, and visuo-spatial sketchpad.

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Types of LTM

Procedural memory (Implicit or non-declarative
memories – “how?”)
Knowing how to do stuff – actions and activities

Declarative memory (Explicit memories)
Two types of declarative memory:
a) Episodic memory
Memories of specific events or personal experie

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The Binding Problem

By assuming separate memory sub-systems the WM model creates a binding problem (Jones, 1993).
How do the components of this multi-faceted executive system interact coherently and avoid conflict in the control of perception, thought and action?

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Short term to long term memory

Distinctiveness

Relevance

Emotionality

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Distinctiveness

The more distinctive a piece of information, the more likely it is to be remembered

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Relevance

An individual is more likely to remember information related to something they know a lot about/something related to them

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Emotionality

Emotional stimuli are automatically processed more deeply than neutral

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