Quiz 6 study Guide

Question 1

What is the definition for Focused attention?

Answer 1

BASIC response to simulation

Question 2

What is the definition for Sustained attention?

Answer 2

(e.g., vigilance)

Attention maintained over time

Question 3

What is the definition for Selective attention?

Answer 3

Attention maintained in the presence of competing or distracting stimuli (or attending to individual stimuli in an array)

Question 4

What is the definition for Alternating attention?

Answer 4

attention shifted from one stimulus to another in response to changing task requirements or person’s changing intent

Question 5

What is the definition for Divided attention?

Answer 5

attending to more than one activity concurrently (e.g., driving a car while talking on a cell phone)

Question 6

What are the types of retrospective memory?

Answer 6

-declarative memory

episodic memory

semantic memory

procedural memory

prospective memory

Question 7

What is declarative memory?

Answer 7

what we know about things (e.g., the capital of the US)

Question 8

What is episodic memory?

Answer 8

memory for past events that are specific to a time and a place

Question 9

What is Semantic memory?

Answer 9

organized knowledge of the world, especially knowledge gained in school

Question 10

Describe procedural memory

Answer 10

knowing how to do things

Question 11

describe prospective memory

Answer 11

“remembering to remember”