7 - Cognitive Control

Question 1

What does perceptual load do? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 1

Reduces distraction

Question 2

What did Lavie (2004) find in response to the flanker task? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 2

Distractor interference increased under high cognitive load

Question 3

What did Lavie & de Fockert (2005) find? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 3

Cognitive load increases interference from a colour singleton distractor

Question 4

What did Carmel (2012) task participants with and what were the findings? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 4

• Tasked to classify names
• Random faces as a distractor
• Surprise memory recall test at the end
• Low cognitive load results were less than chance
• High cognitive load results were significant

Question 5

What is the operation span task and what does it measure? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 5

• Measures memory capacity
• Simultaneously perform maths and read words
• Tests recall of the words

Question 6

What are the outcomes of operation span task? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 6

Those with low working memory capacity show increased troop interferences and response competition interference

Question 7

What is mind wandering? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 7

Relates to the failures of sustained attention

Question 8

What was found in the fMRI spacial cuing task? (Control Cognitive)

Answer 8

• Frontal and parietal activation at the time of the cue helps orientate attention
• P’s that recruit the frontal lobe regions could inhibit distractor effects