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| mental process of concentrating effort on a stimulus or event |
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| what are the two properties of attention |
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| it is limited and is selective |
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| what are dividend attention tasks |
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| what was the study done by Scaffer |
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| to recite nursery rhymes while typing. It measured how much slower you're typing when your attention is divided |
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| attention is flexible how? |
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| with practice it will improve |
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| if it occurs in parallel not serially, and it occurs outside consciousness |
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| how much more at risk are you when driving while talking on a phone |
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| what did Strayer and Drews and Johnston's results reveal? |
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| While talking on the phone, it took greater distance to halt the car and also caused slower response to traffic signals |
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| what is the driving difference between driving and talking on the cell phone and driving drunk |
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Talking: delayed breaking, more accidents
Drinking: harder breaking, tailgating |
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| how does texting affect driving |
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| longer braking duration, larger following distance |
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| what helps conserve attentional resources |
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| what are some selective attention tasks |
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| dichotic listening, and responding to only one source |
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| how did Moray measure selective attention |
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| he had words presented into subjects' unattended ear 35 times and the subject had poor recognition of them |
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| what was the early filter theory |
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| physical--FILTER--meaning--awareness |
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| physical--meaning--FILTER--awareness |
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| physical--FILTER--meaning--FILTER--awareness |
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| how did Johnston and Heinz prove movable filters |
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| while listening to word lists they had to press a button when they saw a light appear |
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| visual selective attention |
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| a change in behavior due to expirience |
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| what was Pavlov famous for |
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| the study of classical conditioning and dogs |
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| phase when learning occurs, when a controlled stimulus comes to make a controlled reaction |
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| what is a use for classical conditioning |
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| they differ in the degree to which they facilitate learning |
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| edward thorndike's law of effect |
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| behaviors of desirable consequences are more likely to be repeated |
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| behaviorist, elaborated thorndikes law of effect |
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| any event that strengthens the behavior it follows |
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| any event that weakens the behavior it follows |
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| adding to something desirable |
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| taking away undesired stimulus |
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| addition of an aversive stimulus |
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| taking away something desiarable |
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| george miller's "magic number" |
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| capacity limit is flexible when you |
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| phonological loop- 2 parts |
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phonological store: tape loop
subvocal rehearsal process: inner speech |
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| plan cognitive tasks, initiates retrieval and decision process, coordinates other systems |
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| What's the study by Nickerson and Adams |
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| they had people view pennies and pick the right one |
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| it is easier to remember things linked to ________ _________ |
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| what is the similarity between encoding and retrieval conditions |
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| physical state, and physical context |
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| godden and baddeley study |
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half learned on land and half in water
RESULT: people remembered more words when in the same context |
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| what's the theory of forgetting |
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| decay--memory fades over time, interference, and retrieval failure |
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| other info in memory interferes with retrieval |
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| prior learning disrupts retrieval |
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| new learning is going to disrupt old info |
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| memory is lost in the system not from the system |
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availibility: memory exists
accessibility: degree to which the memory can be retrieved |
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| a clear memory of an emotionally significant event |
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| our general knowlege of the world |
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| what conditions are necessary to implant memories |
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| plausibility, person has to form an image, source monitoring breakdown |
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| the loss of disturbance of memory |
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| cannot remember events before brain damage |
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| cannot later remember events that occur after brain damage |
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| worse events that happen before the injury |
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| what are you unable to form with anterograde amnesia |
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| you are inable to encode info into long term memory |
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| what are the key functions of the hippocampus |
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| forming new memories, retrieving old ones, tying context to semantic facts, to create episodes |
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| details partaining to time |
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| facts independent of time |
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| prior exposure to info can increase the likelihood of producing a response |
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| warrington and weiskrantz |
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| priming in amnesics is intact |
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| changes in response to a stimulus after repeated conditioned to unconditioned stimulus |
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| our organized knowledge about the world |
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| memory for personally expirienced events that occured in particular place at a specific time |
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| a memory that binds contextual details to time to create a coherent episode |
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| a feeling of previous expirience in time often lacking in contextual details |
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| how is recollection and familiarity in the brain controversial |
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| when you separate the two |
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| what is the hippocamous crucial for? |
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| binding contextual details to time |
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| may be crucial for feelings of familiarity |
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| show inact familiarity, impared recollection |
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| who is the most famous amnesic |
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| medial temporal lobectomy |
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| removal of the brain around the temporal lobe |
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| caused by alcoholism,lower prefrontal activity |
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| what are the symptoms of korsakoff syndrome |
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| severe amnesia, and confabulations |
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