Week 3 - B / C Flashcards
What is the central executive?
It is involved in the decision making, planning and related activities.
What is the rehearsal process?
Repeating something to ourselves to try remember such as a mobile number or foreign language.
What is chunking?
The process by which we can organise material into meaningful groups
What is selective (or focused) attention?
Whether or not we become aware of sensory information.
What is the cognitive load?
Some tasks that require relatively little processing power and others may require more.
What is controlled processing?
Makes heavy demands on attention and is slow, limited in capacity and involving consciously directing attention towards a task
What is automatic processing?
Makes little or no demand on attention, is fast, unaffected by capacity limitations
What is divided attention?
Our ability to carry out more than one task at a time
