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Information Processing Flashcards

1
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What is information processing

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How people take in info from the environment and use the info to select and respond to a motor output

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What are the approaches founded in psychology that are not theories of information processing (2)

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  1. Ecological approaches

2. Cognitive approaches

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What is the ecological approach

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How individuals react with the environment and what it affords them the opportunity to due

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True or False:

Perception is based on experiences

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True

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True or False:

How you perceive what the environment affords you will determine your response

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True

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True or False:

In the cognitive approach humans interact with the environment as processors of information

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True

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True or False:

Everyone takes stimulus in the same way

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true

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In the cognitive approach what do you do after you receive recognize and ID environmental stimuli

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Select and execute planned actions

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How is info from the environment processed in the cognitive approach

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A series of systems

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What are the series of systems to processing info from the environment (4)

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  1. Attention
  2. Perception
  3. STM
  4. Recall from LTM
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What are the steps of information processing (7)

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  1. Define the task
  2. Evaluate starting conditions
  3. Select a plan
  4. Generate movement instructions
  5. Monitor outcome
  6. Feedback (which can bring you back to evaluate starting conditions)
  7. Storage of motor memory
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What is serial processing

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Single channel models in which one process is completed before the next starts

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True or False:

In serial processing motor output occurs after processing

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True

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What is parallel processing

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Multi-channel or multiple-resource models in which some or all processes occur at the same time

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True or False:

In parallel processing you can start the motor output while processing

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True

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What is another name for serial processing

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Sequential processing

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What is another name for parallel processing

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Simultaneous processing

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True or False:

Serial and parallel processing should be thought of in a continuum and can occur together

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True

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What are the 3 stages of IP

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  1. Stimulus identification stage
  2. Response selection stage
  3. Response programming stage
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What do the 3 stages of IP relate to

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Reaction time

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What is reaction time

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How long it takes you to react to a stimulus

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What are the stimulus and stimulus identification based on

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Perception

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What is the stimulus identification stage

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Detection of sensory stimuli and neural encoding of sensory information

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What are the senses used in stimulus identification (4)

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  1. Visual
  2. Auditory
  3. Kinesthetic proprioception
  4. Touch stimuli
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True or False:

The senses used in stimulus identification rarely act in isolation

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True

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What must the stimuli be recognized as in the stimulus identification stage

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A pattern

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27
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What are the 2 substages of stimulus identification

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  1. Stimulus detection

2. Pattern recognition

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What is stimulus detection

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Recognizing the stimuli

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29
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True or False:

The environmental stimuli is processed at different levels until memory is contacted

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True

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In the stimulus identification stage what affects reaction time (4)

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  1. Stimulus clarity
  2. Intensity
  3. Modality
  4. Complexity
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What is pattern recognition

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How humans decipher pattern from stimuli

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What are the 2 situations in which patterns are recognized

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  1. Static situations

2. Dynamic situations

33
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What are static situations

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Stimuli is stationary

34
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What are dynamic situations

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Stimuli is moving in the environment

35
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True or False:

Patterns are genetically defined or learned

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True

36
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What is the response selection stage

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What motor response should be executed

37
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What is processing time affected by (4)

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  1. Number of stimulus response choices
  2. Stimulus response capability
  3. Practice
  4. Predictability
38
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How is stimulus response capability strengthened

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By learned association

39
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What is Hick’s Law

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As the number of choices increases the longer it takes for processing to occur

40
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What is Fitt’s Law

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As the amount of information to process increases the longer it takes for processing to occur

41
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What is the response programming stage

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Organization of action response

42
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True or False:

The response programming stage is the final set of processes for communication with the environment

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True

43
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What is the Henry-Rogers experiment (2)

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  1. Increased complexity of response to program leads to increased reaction time
  2. More time to program movements, increased accuracy demand, and longer movement durations
44
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What are the factors affecting response programming (3)

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  1. Number of movement parts
  2. Movement accuracy
  3. Movement duration
45
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What does anticipation do

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Speeds up response selection

46
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How does anticipation speed up response selection

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Because you already know what your response will be for a stimulus

47
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How does anticipation effect reaction time

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It shortens reaction time

48
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What are the 3 ways to anticipate

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  1. Receptor
  2. Effector
  3. Perceptual
49
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What is receptor anticipation

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Detect upcoming events from environmental stimuli using sensory receptors

50
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What is effector anticipation

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How long it will take your motor response to occur

51
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What is perceptual anticipation

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Can predict what will happen based on experience

52
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What is spatial (event) anticipation

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Anticipation of TYPE of stimulus present and what subsequent response would be required

53
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What does spatial anticipation allow

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Some response programming before stimulus has arrived (decreasing RT)

54
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What can occur with spatial anticipation

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One movement can be planned while another is executed

55
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What is temporal anticipation

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Anticipation of WHEN stimulus will arrive which can lead to a large decrease in RT

56
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What are foreperiods

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Period of time prior to stimulus onset

57
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What are the types of foreperiods (2)

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  1. Constant foreperiods

2. Variable duration foreperiods

58
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What foreperiod creates the shortest reaction times

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Constant and short foreperiods

59
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What is quicker automatic or controlled processing of info

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Automatic processing of info

60
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True or False:

In automatic processing of information neurons activate in response to stimuli

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True

61
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What type of attention/processing does automatic processing of info require

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Limited

62
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True or False:

Automatic processing of info has a greater capacity and is faster than controlled processing of info

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True

63
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Is automatic processing serial or parallel in nature

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Parallel

64
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True or False:

Controlled processing of info requires selective attention

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True

65
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Do we used controlled processing of info for well learned or not well learned tasks

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Not well learned

66
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Is controlled processing of info serial or parallel in nature

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Serial in nature

67
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What else impacts information processing (3)

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  1. Arousal
  2. Anxiety
  3. Attention
68
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What is arousal

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How alert you are (activation of the CNS)

69
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True or False:

There is an optimal level of arousal for each task

A

True

70
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Are fine motor tasks better at a low or high level of arousal

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Low level of arousal

71
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Are gross motor tasks better at low or high level of arousal

A

High level of arousal

72
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What is happening with low arousal

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Taking in too many stimuli and can’t determine what is relevant

73
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What is happening with high arousal

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Focus too much on one stimuli missing relevant cues

74
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If someone is inexperienced what is the best level of arousal and why

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Low level of arousal so you can take everything in

75
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What is another name for perceptual narrowing

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Tunnel vision

76
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What is perceptual narrowing

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Increased arousal for stimuli related to task vs. irrelevant stimuli with a decreased ability to perceive stimuli outside primary focus

77
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What is hypervigilance/panic

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Severe stress conditions which lead to severely disrupted actions

78
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What occurs when some one is hypervigilant/panicked

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Freezing

79
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What are the 2 types of IP under high arousal

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  1. Perceptual narrowing

2. Hypervigilance/panic

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