PSYC Questions

1. Name some tasks that you have performed today that required the use of your phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, central executive, or episodic buffer. Can you think of a task that uses all four of these WM components? Is consciousness one of these? Here’s what Alan Baddeley thinks. 

2. One of the current discussions of memory is about just how active it may be. Would it be more of an advantage for memory to serve as a faithful record that never changed or as a record that could be updated and filled in by later experience, even if later interpretations were sometimes mistaken?

3. What is the difference between amnesia and normal forgetting?