Week 3 - B / C Flashcards

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What is the central executive?

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It is involved in the decision making, planning and related activities.

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What is the rehearsal process?

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Repeating something to ourselves to try remember such as a mobile number or foreign language.

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3
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What is chunking?

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The process by which we can organise material into meaningful groups

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What is selective (or focused) attention?

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Whether or not we become aware of sensory information.

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What is the cognitive load?

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Some tasks that require relatively little processing power and others may require more.

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What is controlled processing?

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Makes heavy demands on attention and is slow, limited in capacity and involving consciously directing attention towards a task

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What is automatic processing?

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Makes little or no demand on attention, is fast, unaffected by capacity limitations

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What is divided attention?

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Our ability to carry out more than one task at a time

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