Chapter 10 - Human Info Processing

Question 1

How tasks can we pay attention to at once

Answer 1

1

Question 2

We pick up a sense which goes into the sensory memory what is the next stage

Answer 2

central decision maker to make an perception

Or automatic processing/ procedural memory

Question 3

What happens when you use divided attention

Answer 3

decreases performance

monitoring more than one channel

Question 4

Vigilance is linked with a nervous system and ?

Answer 4

CNS

Circadian rhythm

Question 5

What is response error

Answer 5

preparing the wrong response for an unexpected error

Question 6

Sensory memory for iconic / echoic

Answer 6

vision - 0.5 - 1 seconds

acoustic - 2 - 8 seconds

Question 7

Short term / working memory has the capacity for how many bits of info
is effected by
remembers which most

Answer 7

5 +-2
interruption
remembers newest information going in

Question 8

Long term memory has x3 stores

Answer 8

Episodic - Past events - explicit
Semantic - words, language - explicit
Procedural - skills, motor programmes, subconsciously - inplict

Question 9

How to improve long term memory

Answer 9

overtraining

Question 10

Which store is effected by amnesia

Answer 10

Episodic - can’t remember past events

Question 11

4 types of learning

Answer 11

Classical
Operant
Cognitive
Imitation

Question 12

A skill is

Answer 12

being able to carry out a task subconsciously/ auto

Question 13

x3 stages to the Anderson model of learning

Answer 13

Cognitive - theory
Associate - practice skill
Automatic - is procedural knowledge