Attention in Working Memory Flashcards
____ is when using mental effort to concentrate on a external stimuli or internal mental thought
Attention
What are the 2 types of attention we concentrate on?
External & Internal Attention
Which of the 2 types of attention we concentrate on is when our cognition’s actively process info info our sensory register related to that specific stimuli?
External Attention
Which of the 2 types of attention we concentrate on is the process in which our minds try to remember event/ info stored in memory?
Internal Attention
According to basic attention ____ attention is considered the most basic type of attention and occurs in the early stream of processing into the sensory registers?
Input Attention
According to basic attention in order to pay attention our nervous system must be what?
Must have Alertness & Arousal
According to basic attention ____/____ is where we have focused our attention towards external stimuli & or internal thoughts for a long period of time?
Vigilance or Sustained Attention
According to basic attention ____ involves processing info. in the “conscious” awareness?
Explicit Processing
According to basic attention ____ is processing info “w/o conscious” awareness?
Implicit Processing
According to basic attention ____ is the reflexive response when we redirect our attention towards an unexpected stimulus?
Orienting Reflex
According to basic attention ____ is when we return our attention fro the orienting response back to our attentive state?
Habituation
According to basic attention ____ is when we redirect our attention to a stimulus or an object based on physical characteristics or something novel?
Attention Capture
According to different types of attention ____ is a conscious mental effort towards a specific stimuli?
Controlled Attention
According to different types of attention ____ is a excluding/ignoring all external stimuli while concentrating on 1 stimuli or task?
Selective Attention
According to selective attention ____ is the mental process of ignoring all other stimuli?
Filtering or Selecting
According to different types of attention ____ is considered when the person diverts their attention from the present task at hand & their internal thoughts wander to something else?
Mind Wandering
According to different types of attention ____ is when there’s a limited amount of energy/resource that our brains can maintain?
Limited Mental Resources
According to different types of attention ____ is when attention is focused on 2 or more current tasks at hand?
Divided Attention
According to different types of attention ____ is when 2 primary tasks are presented while 1 task is capturing attention away from the other?
Dual Task Procedure
What are the 2 components of Working Memory?
STM & Attentional System
In working which of the 2 components is of the working system that holds info coming from the sensory memory & LTM?
STM
In the working memory ____ is a humans control over a continued set of behaviors, cognitives, processes, or goals?
Attention
In working memory what are the 2 key properties of attention?
Selective & Limited
In working memory which of the 2 key properties of attention is where mental focus can be (but not always) intentionally directed?
Selective
In working memory which of the 2 key properties of attention is cognitive processing that cannot occur for all stimuli simultaneously?
Limited
Who used participants to detect a target letter using directed attention?
Sperling & Melchner (1978)
Who used flash cards to identify a “target” among ‘distracters” (letters/ numbers)?
Schneider & Shiffrin (1971)
According to Schneider & Shiffrin (1971) what are the 2 types of mapping people do?
Consistent & Varied Mappings
According to Schneider & Shiffrin (1971) which of the 2 types of mapping people do is when they pick up the target letters from the distracted numbers?
Consistent Mapping
According to Schneider & Shiffrin (1971) which of the 2 types of mapping people do is when they have difficulty picking up target letters from distracted numbers & letters?
Varied Mapping
____ is selecting space
Spotlighting Metaphor
What gives evidence of attention to space?
Hemineglect
_____ when patients ignore one side of space (typically the left)
Hemineglect
