PSY 364 Crystal Belfield Written Exam 1
Part I
One of my favorite activities I enjoy in my free time is baking, I view baking as a form of relaxation and a fun activity to enjoy with my family. I view Baking as a science which requires the use of strong cognition, baking relies on knowledge obtained from thinking, understanding, remembering, feeling and perceiving, to perform this activity successfully the Memory systems play a huge role. Working memory is important because it allows you to focus your attention and temporarily store relevant information needed to perform the activity such as reading comprehension which is necessary for following the multistep directions of the recipes. The visual-spatial working memory helps us visualize measuring …show more content…
He states that he was successful in memory retrieval in the first part of experiment, because he could make logical connections which use deeper levels of processing, this allows him to make sense of the chess board pieces, he then refers to a technique called chunking. Working memory plays a pivotal role in playing chess, chunking helps because our short-term memory can only hold 5-9 pieces of information at a time, chunking allowed him to encode more pieces at one time, helping with memory. When playing chess, short-term memory is also responsible for remembering recent events, such as what move was made two steps ago, this is important for making future moves. Procedural memory and top-down perception, uses past experiences and prior knowledge, to perform certain tasks quickly and recognize familiar chess patterns with ease, both these concepts played a key role in the chess masters ability to correctly reconstruct. The chess masters use of working memory, procedural memory, top-down perception and chunking, helped him comprehend things quickly and perform the first part of the experiment with near perfect
Part I
One of my favorite activities I enjoy in my free time is baking, I view baking as a form of relaxation and a fun activity to enjoy with my family. I view Baking as a science which requires the use of strong cognition, baking relies on knowledge obtained from thinking, understanding, remembering, feeling and perceiving, to perform this activity successfully the Memory systems play a huge role. Working memory is important because it allows you to focus your attention and temporarily store relevant information needed to perform the activity such as reading comprehension which is necessary for following the multistep directions of the recipes. The visual-spatial working memory helps us visualize measuring …show more content…
He states that he was successful in memory retrieval in the first part of experiment, because he could make logical connections which use deeper levels of processing, this allows him to make sense of the chess board pieces, he then refers to a technique called chunking. Working memory plays a pivotal role in playing chess, chunking helps because our short-term memory can only hold 5-9 pieces of information at a time, chunking allowed him to encode more pieces at one time, helping with memory. When playing chess, short-term memory is also responsible for remembering recent events, such as what move was made two steps ago, this is important for making future moves. Procedural memory and top-down perception, uses past experiences and prior knowledge, to perform certain tasks quickly and recognize familiar chess patterns with ease, both these concepts played a key role in the chess masters ability to correctly reconstruct. The chess masters use of working memory, procedural memory, top-down perception and chunking, helped him comprehend things quickly and perform the first part of the experiment with near perfect