Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Free Recall, Strong Prime, Episodic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Selective attention takes info from 5 senses, but don"t pay attention to everything: aware of things on an unconscious level ex. Priming, where exposure to one stimulus affects response to another stimulus, even if we haven"t been paying attention to it: we"re primed to respond to our name. Why it"s a strong prime for pulling our attention. Resource model of attention we have limited resources in attention: both models say something about our ability to multitask not very good at it. Maybe not multitasking, just switching spotlight back and forth: what about singing to radio, task similarity ex. Better to listen to classical music, because harder to multitask with similar tasks: task difficulty harder tasks require more focus, practice activities well practiced become automatic, or things that occur without need for attention. Information processing model: sensory, working, and long-term memory. Information processing model proposes our brains are similar to computers.