perspectives in psych

Principles in Human Cognition Limited Cognitive Capacity Inattentional blindness vs change blindness 

• Cognitive Psychology Strengths vs weaknesses 

• • How do we know that Working Memory (i.e., short-term memory) and Long-Term Memory are separate systems? 

• Neuropsychological evidence ▪ Double dissociations 

• Why do we call it “Working” memory? 

• Working Memory Capacity George Miller (1920-2012) ▪ 7 ± 2 “bits” of information 

• • Three basic processes in Long-Term Memory Encoding 

  • Storage 

  • Retrieval 

  • Encoding errors How does “pay” attention impacts encoding?