chapter 11 Flashcards
Sir Frederic Bartlett
father of British psychology
sir Frederic Bartlett
argued for reconstructive nature of memory
sir Frederic Bartlett
wrote “Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology”
reconstructive nature of memory (sir Francis Bartlett)
introduced the concept of schema
reconstructive nature of memory
Believed memory was influenced by schemas, particularly when constructing/reconstructing memories
Donald Broadbent
developed filter model of attention
Donald broadent
researched impact of noise on work performance with British navy
who wrote perception and communication
Donald Broadbent
Donald Broadbent
described humans as an information processing system
Donald Broadbent
Believed humans were more complicated than simple input output model of behaviorism
Donald Broadbent
Challenged that environmental stimulus elicited an organism’s response
filter model (1980)
Description of attention as a bottleneck that limits the amount of information coming into the organism
dichotic listening task
A laboratory task in which the participant hears two different streams of speech through left and right headphones and is asked to only attend to one of them
anne treisman
Proposed the attenuation model and then the feature of integration theory of attention
attenuation model
Attention increases the intensity of wanted stimulus and decreases the intensity of the unwanted stimulus
cocktail party effect
meaningful information items in unattended stream came through the filter that was supposedly blocking the unattended stream
feature integration theory of attention
A perceptual and attentional theory that explains how an individual combines pieces of observable information about an object in order to form a complete perception of the object
pre attention stage (feature integration theory of attention)
Individual focuses on one distinguishing feature of the object
focused sustained attention stage (feature integration theory of attention)
Individual has to take all of the observed features and combine them to make a complete perception
New Look Movement
Argued for the important role that mental states play in our view of the world
Jerome Bruner
American developmental psychologist who was one of the founders of the Cognitive Revolution
Leo Postman
American cognitive psychologist who developed the interference theory of forgetting
role of expectation in perception
Using a tachistoscope, they flashed images of playing cards at increasing intervals, ranging from 10 to 1,000 ms, ask participants to call out playing card that they see, half of colors reversed
