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19 Cards in this Set
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Definition of Attention |
The ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations |
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Early (Filter) Selection Model |
Explains selective attention by early filtering out of the unattended message, occurs before the message is analyzed to determine its meaning |
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Intermediate (Attenuator) Selection model |
Analyzes the incoming message in terms of physical characteristics, language, and meaning; attended messages pass through the attenuator at full strength, and unattended messages pass through with reduced strength |
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Late Selection Model |
selection of stimuli for final processing does not occur until after the information in the message has been analyzed for meaning |
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Phonological Loop |
Phonological Store: has limited capacity and holds information for only a few seconds Articulatory Rehearsal Process: responsible for rehearsal that can keep items in the phonological store from decaying |
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Visuospatial Sketchpad |
Holds visual and spatial information |
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Types of Memory (Explicit, Implicit, Episodic, Semantic) |
Explicit: involves conscious recollections of events or facts that we have learned in the past (declarative) Implicit: occurs when an experience affects a person's behavior, even though the person is not aware that he or she had that experience (non-declarative) Episodic: specific events that have happened to the person having the memory; these events are usually remembered as a personal experience that occurred at a particular time and place Semantic: knowledge about the world that is not tied to any specific personal experience |
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Saccade Eye Movement |
Eye movements from one fixation point to another |
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Controlled and Autonomic Processes |
Controlled: involves close attention Autonomic: occurs automatically, without the person intending to do it, and that also uses few cognitive resources |
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Inattentional Blindness |
A stimulus is not perceived, even though a person is looking directly at it |
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Proactive Interference |
The items already in memory interfere with new information |
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Double Dissociation |
A situation in which a single dissociation can be demonstrated in one person, and the opposite type of a single dissociation can be demonstrated in another person |
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Retrograde Amnesia |
Unable to remember anything before trauma |
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Anterograde Amnesia |
Unable to remember anything after trauma |
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Word Fragment Completion Task |
Don't remember seeing a word, but your performance suggests otherwise |
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Attentional Blink Experiment |
On each trial of the experiment, a sequence of 19 letter are presented for only 100 milliseconds. The task is to judge whether the letters J or K were in the sequence. |
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Stroop Effect Experiment |
On each trial, you are shown a word (RED, GREEN, or BLUE) that is printed in either red, green, or blue font color. The task is to classify, as quickly as possible, the font color, regardless of the word name. |
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Change Detection Experiment |
On each trial, two pictures are presented in alternation. On half the trials, the two pictures are identical. On the other half of the trials, the two pictures differed in some way. For each kind of pair, either the pictures appear immediately after one another, or a blank gray box appears in between the pictures. The task is to report whether the pictures are identical or differed. |
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Modality Effect Experiment |
On each trial, you either see or hear the digits 1-9 presented in random order and are asked to recall the numbers in the same order as they are presented. |