Lecture 5

Question 1

Definition for attention

Answer 1

Attention is your ability to select a
subset of input to let you identify
what has been selected

Question 2

3 most important things in memory

Answer 2

Capacity, coding and retrieval

Question 3

Describe the Modal Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)

Answer 3

3 stages
- Starts with input to sensory memory the move to ->
- Short term working memory: where it can be worked/repeated to be ->
- Long term memory: where it can be stored

Question 4

What is sensory memory

Answer 4

Large capacity, rapid decay, very fragile, everything comes into sensory memory, but there is not enough capacity to encode and represent it

Question 5

What is Short term memory

Answer 5

Limited capacity, robust to decay and interference, provided contents are being actively worked
- Rehearsal: repeating or moving through the contents of STM so it is not lost

Question 6

What is long term memory

Answer 6

Transfer: Moving contents from short term memory to long term memory
- Retrieving from LTM: moving a memory from LTM to STM so that you are aware of it and can express it

Question 7

how does retrieval work in memory

Answer 7

memory needs to be moved from LTM to STM to be expressed

Question 8

What is anterograde amnesia

Answer 8

Inability to encode new information after an incident (e.g., brain damage) (patient H.M)

Question 9

The neural evidence for visual capacity:

Answer 9

you can get to about 4 things but not beyond
that, there are limits to what you can represent

Question 10

What is dual task interference

Answer 10

• The negative influence on task performance due to performing 2 tasks concurrently
• Its existence suggests shared cognitive resources between tasks
• Its lack suggests the independence of cognitive resources required for the 2 tasks