Schemas

Question 1

Exogenous orienting

Answer 1

Shift attention to the location of an external event (movement, sudden brightening), pulls your attention to this location.

Question 2

Endogenous orienting

Answer 2

Shift attention because of intention or strategy (arrow cues)sometimes target appears where the cue directs your attention, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Question 3

Attention can be directed to a region in space, OR.?

Answer 3

spread over an object, independent of cued location

Question 4

The phonological loop probably is/isn’t involved in reading?

Answer 4

ISN’T

Question 5

Final words in the reading span task may be kept in ________ ________.

Answer 5

referential memory

Question 6

How does the episodic buffer differ from the phonological loop & visuo-spatial sketchpad?

Answer 6

It has meaning involved

Question 7

Procedural memory

Answer 7

Memory for how to do things + processing… Doing things can be easier the second time even if you have no memory of doing the thing.

Question 8

Schemas are based on…

Answer 8

knowledge of common situations , with slots for info that varies.

Question 9

Schemas effect on recall?

Answer 9

-Lead to better recall as better values can be assumed, but discrepant info can still be noted.

Question 10

False recognition for unstated script actions increases with…

Answer 10

number of schema versions read

Question 11

How is discrepant (non-schema) info processed?

Answer 11

• Discrepant information will be more difficult to assimilate at the outset
• But will become focus of attention over time