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Describe selective attention

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The capacity for or process of reacting to certain stimuli selectively with several occurred simultaneously

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What is attention?

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Taking possession by the mind is clear and visit form of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects were trains to thought

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What is shiftable attention

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The ability to shift attention from one stimuli to another

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Change blindness

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Failed to notice a change due to inattention

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What factors influence the likelihood that changes notice?

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The flicker in between disrupts motion detection which makes it difficult to notice changes in unattended parts of an image

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Priming

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Priming is a memory of backed in which one stimulus affects the response to another stimulus

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Stimulus based priming

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Detectors can be primed by Mere exposure to the stimulus

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Expectation based planning

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Slow, only able to concentrate on one area, does involve effort

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Broadbent filter Theory

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Stimuli are filtered, for selected to be attended to at an early stage during processing. A filter can be regarded as the selector of relevant information based on basic features such as color pitch or direction of stimuli

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Attenuation Theory of attention

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Accounted for the ability of attention to be held outside of the concentrated area

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Late selection theory of attention

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The proposed all stimuli gets processed in full with crucial difference being a filter place later in the information processing routine just before entrance into working memory

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The cocktail party effect

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The phenomenon of being able to focus ones auditory attention on a particular stimulus well filtering out the range of other stimuli much in the same way partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room

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What evidence exists of the ability to multitask?

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In the instance of texting and driving we saw a difference and reaction time, and more instance of incidental blindness

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Autonomic versus controlled processing

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Control processing requires attention and effort.

Pneumatic processing occurs without giving much thought

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Heredity versus learning. Different ways the brain learns automatic processing

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Heredity is being able to do a task without much thought without being taught (born with it)
Learning is passing from controlled to automatic via practice

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Long-Term Memory

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  • Very long duration
  • Hours to decades
  • Large, possibly unlimited capacity
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Short- Term/Working memory

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  • Memory you are currently thinking about or working on
  • Short Duration
  • 7 items +- 2 items
  • Small Capacity
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Episodic Memory

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Events that actually happened to you-personal events

  • involves mental time travel
  • Include context
  • Most affected by amnesia
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Memory Pathways

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  • Serve as access routes and allow us to make connections
  • Formed through acquisition
  • Allow to use these connections to fire signals to retrieve memories
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Semantic Memory

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  • Word meanings
  • General facts
  • Concepts
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Explicit Memory

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Conscious awareness, easy to verbalize

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Implicit Memory

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  • hard to verbalize
  • no conscious awareness
  • Skills habits
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Theory of Implicit Memory

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  • Memory retrieval involves processing pathways
  • pathways increase processing fluency
  • fluency leads to attributions of familiarity
  • people are sensitive to a relative degree of processing fluency
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Retrograde amnesia

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Loss of memory before disruption (the accident or illness)

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Anterograde amnesia

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Inability to form new long-term memories (implicit)

-Clive Wearing

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Procedural Memory

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Can perform, not verbalize (muscle memory)

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Techniques for improving everyday memory

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  • Chunking (breaking things down into specific small sections)
  • Elaborative rehearsal (making connections while trying to memorize something
  • Distributed practice- encoding specificity
  • Minimize interference (distractions)
  • Deep Processing
  • State-dependent memory and mood (try to mimic test and study environments to enhance memory)
  • Elaboration and self-referent encoding
  • Transfer-appropriate processing
  • Organization
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Laptops vs. Longhand note taking

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  • In general those who took longhand notes performed better on the tests
  • Found that those who take notes on laptops tend to type verbatim notes without deep processing
  • Found that generative note taking (writing stuff in your own fucking words) was a more effective way of getting things into long term memory
  • Those on laptops tend to get distracted or multi-task, therefore absorb less info
  • Laptop people performed worse on recall-concept questions
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Processing Fluency

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-Improvement in the speed or ease of processing

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Free Recall (LTM)

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Generate a response from memory

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Cued Recall

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Prompt given to facilitate response generation

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Serial position effect

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The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best in the middle items worst

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George Miller the magic number

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7+ or -2. The amount of information able to hold in working/short-term memory.

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Chungking

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A strategy that can be used to improve one’s short-term memory involves reducing on strings of information down to shorter more manageable chunks

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Baddeley’s model of STM

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A model composed of three components, the supervisory system which controls the information, and slave systems which function as short term memory centers

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The central executive Center

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The center in Baddeley’s model which acts as an executive supervisory systems and controls the flow of information to and from its other systems

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Visio spatial buffer

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Holds visual information for manipulation

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Phonological loop

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Audio information and words. written words can be transferred to this loop as well

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