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Attention in Working Memory Flashcards

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1
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____ is when using mental effort to concentrate on a external stimuli or internal mental thought

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Attention

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What are the 2 types of attention we concentrate on?

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External & Internal Attention

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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?

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External Attention

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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?

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Internal Attention

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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?

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Input Attention

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According to basic attention in order to pay attention our nervous system must be what?

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Must have Alertness & Arousal

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According to basic attention ____/____ is where we have focused our attention towards external stimuli & or internal thoughts for a long period of time?

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Vigilance or Sustained Attention

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According to basic attention ____ involves processing info. in the “conscious” awareness?

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Explicit Processing

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According to basic attention ____ is processing info “w/o conscious” awareness?

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Implicit Processing

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According to basic attention ____ is the reflexive response when we redirect our attention towards an unexpected stimulus?

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Orienting Reflex

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According to basic attention ____ is when we return our attention fro the orienting response back to our attentive state?

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Habituation

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According to basic attention ____ is when we redirect our attention to a stimulus or an object based on physical characteristics or something novel?

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Attention Capture

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According to different types of attention ____ is a conscious mental effort towards a specific stimuli?

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Controlled Attention

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According to different types of attention ____ is a excluding/ignoring all external stimuli while concentrating on 1 stimuli or task?

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Selective Attention

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According to selective attention ____ is the mental process of ignoring all other stimuli?

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Filtering or Selecting

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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?

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Mind Wandering

17
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According to different types of attention ____ is when there’s a limited amount of energy/resource that our brains can maintain?

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Limited Mental Resources

18
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According to different types of attention ____ is when attention is focused on 2 or more current tasks at hand?

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Divided Attention

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According to different types of attention ____ is when 2 primary tasks are presented while 1 task is capturing attention away from the other?

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Dual Task Procedure

20
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What are the 2 components of Working Memory?

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STM & Attentional System

21
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In working which of the 2 components is of the working system that holds info coming from the sensory memory & LTM?

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STM

22
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In the working memory ____ is a humans control over a continued set of behaviors, cognitives, processes, or goals?

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Attention

23
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In working memory what are the 2 key properties of attention?

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Selective & Limited

24
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In working memory which of the 2 key properties of attention is where mental focus can be (but not always) intentionally directed?

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Selective

25
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In working memory which of the 2 key properties of attention is cognitive processing that cannot occur for all stimuli simultaneously?

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Limited

26
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Who used participants to detect a target letter using directed attention?

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Sperling & Melchner (1978)

27
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Who used flash cards to identify a “target” among ‘distracters” (letters/ numbers)?

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Schneider & Shiffrin (1971)

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According to Schneider & Shiffrin (1971) what are the 2 types of mapping people do?

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Consistent & Varied Mappings

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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?

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Consistent Mapping

30
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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?

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Varied Mapping

31
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____ is selecting space

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Spotlighting Metaphor

32
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What gives evidence of attention to space?

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Hemineglect

33
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_____ when patients ignore one side of space (typically the left)

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Hemineglect

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