What are the characteristics of sensory memory? (3 answers)
Iconic memory
Fades rapidly
Huge amounts of information
Lasts about 20-30 seconds
Long term memory
Small amount of information
It is thought that short term memory can hold up to 9 plus or minus 2 pieces of information at a time.
What are the parts of the multistore model of memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin)
Sensory memory, Working memory, Long term memory
Working memory, Sensory memory, Long term memory
Working memory, long term memory, sensory memory
Long term memory, sensory memory, short term memory
What are some characteristics of long term memory? (3 answers)
Large amounts of information
Accurate recall
Reconstructive
Lasts minutes to months
Can last years
Items at the start of a list being able to be remembered easier is an example of the primacy recency( primacy, recency ) effect.
Items at the end of a list that are easier to remember is an example of the recency primacy( recency, primacy ) effect.
What are some things that increase successful memory encoding? (4 answers)
Deeper semantic meaning
Making information self relevant
Spacing
Elaboration
Magic memory pills
Memory cues
Flashbulb memories are typically permanently accurate.
Anterograde Retrograde( Anterograde, Retrograde ) amnesia is the inability to form new memories.
Retrograde Anterograde( Retrograde, Anterograde ) amnesia is where old memories are forgotten.
The general model of attention describes
sensory input --> selector --> working memory
sensory input --> attenuation --> working memory
sensory input --> filter --> working memory
sensory input --> working memory --> filter
Broadbents' filter model describes attenuation of unattended stimuli
What are some of the features of Anne Treismans' Feature Integration Theory (FIT)? (3 answers)
Parallel processing of basic featues
Attention as a binding mechanism to bring together simple features
Binding as a slow and serial process
Binding as an instantaneous process
Pre-attention focuses on complex feature integration
We seem to have some sort of preattentive ability for semantics
What are the components of Treisman's attentuation theory?
Sensory store, Attenuating filter, Hierarchy of analysers, Working memory
Sensory store, Hierarchy of analysers,Attenuating filter, Working memory
Sensory store, Attenuating filter, Working memory
Sensory store, Working memory, Attenuating filter
Early selection involves filtering by physical characteristics and late selection can process semantics.
What are the characteristics of the Capacity Theory of Attention? (3 answers)
Proposed by Kahneman
Proposed by Broadbent
Attention as mental effort
Task related attention and automatic attention
Attention acts like a spotlight
The spotlight and zoom lens models of attention explain non-spatial attention well but fail to adequately explain spatial attention.
What are some examples of bottom up attention? (4 answers)
Flash of light
Loud noise
Quick movement
Someone calling out your name
Searching for keys on cluttered desk
Looking for your friend at the bar
Digging around for something in your bag
What are some examples of top-down attention? (3 answers)
Loud noises
Quick sudden movements
Looking for your keys in your room
Finding your friend at the bar
Doing a find a word
Not being able to see a giant gorilla walk through a bunch of people playing basketball is an example of change blindness.
Spatial neglect from damage to a hemisphere of the brain results in what kind of attention issues?
Problems with attention to the opposite side of space to the damaged hemisphere
Problems with attention to the same side of space to the damaged hemisphere
General problems of attention in all areas of space
Inability to draw daisies properly
A person with Simultagnosia is only able to perceive one object at a time.
