1.Chapter 4 discuss several research on working memory done by George Miller about his research named Magical number seven whereby he believes that people can hold limited number of items in their short memory, in other research John Brown/ Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson demonstrated that whatever you hold in memory can be forgotten less than a minute. Atkinson and Shiffrin’s model tells that short term memories can be hold not more than 30 second unless they are being repeated more often.
In the second part of the chapter the working memory approach has been explained by Alan Baddeley and Hitch explain four components for working memory, these four include: phonological loop, visuopatial sketchpad, central executive and episodic buffer.
2.In order to use cognitive tasks, working memory will help you to keep information active and accessible.
3.I find this chapter very interesting but at the same time also very difficult, especially Episodic buffer, I still cannot see the relation between phonological loop, the viuospatial sketchpad and the long term memory that influence your working memory.
4.I think this would apply to my work as I need to be able to store information about my job and information I receive from co workers in order to work accurate.
5.As the author shows several research that has been done by people in the field it seems that it is valid, however we need to pay more attention on what they research on, that’s why I try to see what kind of example and research they applied and will put myself in their examples to see if it’s also apply to me as well.
6.By knowing how working memory works, you would be able to memorize things better in order to keep it longer in your brain.
7.You can use this method for example in memorizing license plate or telephone numbers.
8.I think to improve your memory in order to save more info to your brain it’s better to practice every day to remember difficult words in order to train your brain. When you be able to train your brain to remember difficult word, you then will be able also to remember easy words as well.
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Hi Pedram,
ReplyDeleteFor the episodic buffer, think of it this way. There has to be a place where everything else - phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, long-term memory, and central executive - comes together to process your thoughts. It is like a team of workers coming together and they need a place to meet. The episodic buffer is the meeting room.