Visual spatial sketchpad Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

aqa a level psychology - year 1 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass central executive - Answer-- acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research phonological loop - Answer-- stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them visuo-spatial sket...

MCAT PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY EXAM Social stratification - ANSWER Social stratification refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. In the United States, it is perfectly clear that some groups have greater status, power, and wealth than other groups. These differences are what led to social stratification Class consciousness - ANSWER awareness of one's place in a system of social classes, especially (in Marxist terms) as it relates to the class struggle....

central executive - ANSWER - acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research phonological loop - ANSWER - stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them visuo-spatial sketchpad - ANSWER - stores visual and spatial information - divided in...

Study of capacity of STM - ANSWER Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM - ANSWER Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15 seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number. Participants were 90% correct after 3 seconds, 20% correct after 9 and only 2% ...

Baddeley and Hitch - correct answer Who proposed WMM central executive - correct answer Filters info and directs to slave systems Limited capacity Used in cognitive tasks like reasoning and decision making visiospatial sketchpad - correct answer Deals with visual and spatial info Creates images and access stored ones Info rehearsed and encoded through mental pictures (inner eye) visual coding and capacity phonological loop - correct answer holds and processes auditory info arti...

Psychophysics - ANSWER-the study of relationships between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them just noticeable difference - ANSWER-the threshold at which one can distinguish two stimuli that are of different intensities, but otherwise identical Phonological loop - ANSWER-the part of working memory that holds and processes verbal and auditory information working memory - ANSWER-A newer understanding of short-term memor...

Central executive Correct Answer - acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research Phonological loop Correct Answer - stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them Visuo-spatial sketchpad Correct Answer - stores visual and spatial informa...

Thomas just started his new job as a neuropsychologist at a thriving practice in Austin, Texas. During his internship, he was told to say "good job" whenever a patient performed well on a section or item of a neuropsychological test. However, during the orientation for his new position, the head clinical neuropsychologist told him to give patients feedback only at the end of the testing session. During his first neuropsychological evaluation at his new job, Thomas says "good job" whenever th...

central executive - ANSWER - acts as a filter to determine what information is received - limited capacity - baddeley found participants couldn't type letters and numbers on a keyboard whilst speaking random numbers - limited research phonological loop - ANSWER - stores verbal information - divided into: - acoustic store: holds words heard - articulatory process: holds words heard and repeats them visuo-spatial sketchpad - ANSWER - stores visual and spatial information - divided in...

AQA A Level Psychology Memory Questions and Answers 100% Pass Study of capacity of STM Miller (Immediate Digit Span Test) Jacobs Support Study of duration of STM Peterson and Peterson (Trigrams) 24 students given a consonant syllable and a three digit number ie. THX 512. They were asked to recall the consonant syllable after a retention interval of 3, 6 , 9, 12 or 15 seconds. During this interval they had to count backwards from their three digit number. Participants were 90% correct after 3 se...