The Phonological Loop
This "inner voice" handles verbal and auditory info.
What is the Phonological Loop?
This system allows you to mentally visualize a map or layout.
What is the Visuospatial Sketchpad?
This "boss" of the system directs attention but lacks storage.
What is the Central Executive?
He famously proposed the "Magical Number Seven."
Who is George Miller?
This task requires you to remember the last word of several sentences.
What is Working Memory Span?
The loop consists of the Phonological Store and this "rehearsal" process.
What is Articulatory Loop?
This part of the brain is most associated with visual/spatial tasks.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This 4th component links WM to Long-Term Memory.
What is the Episodic Buffer?
Miller's "bits" of info are combined into these larger units.
What are Chunks?
The "U-shaped" curve showing we remember the start/end of lists.
What is the Serial Position Effect?
This effect says we remember "Cat, Bat, Hat" less accurately than "Log, Day, Pen."
What is Acoustic Confusion?
This occurs when a secondary visual task interferes with a primary one.
What is Interference?
The Central Executive is primarily located in this lobe.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This model (1968) viewed memory as a sequence of fixed "stores."
What is Atkinson-Shiffrin?
This is the tendency to remember items at the very end of a list.
What is the Recency Effect?
Repeating "the-the-the" out loud to block rehearsal is called this.
What is Articulatory Suppression?
This refers to our ability to mentally rotate a 3D object in space.
What is Mental Rotation?
People with high WM capacity are better at this "conflict" test.
What is the Stroop Task?
This newer term replaced "Short-Term Memory" to imply active work.
What is Working Memory?
This effect explains why we remember "Short" words better than "Long" words.
What is Word Length Effect?
Brain imaging shows this hemisphere is most active for the Phonological Loop.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
This specific "task" proves we can't easily perform two spatial tasks at once.
What is the Visual Dual-Task?
The Executive is responsible for this, which involves shifting between tasks.
What is Task Switching?
Unlike WM, this older memory concept was considered "Unitary."
What is Short-Term Memory?
This effect shows that items from the start of a list are moved to LTM.
What is the Primacy Effect?