PSYCH 2210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Temporal Lobe, Genital Tubercle
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Hemholtz and visual attention: idea of focusing on one location. Cocktail party effect: focus on salient info in noisy environment can be diverted. Attention and perception: attending to and selecting the relevant incoming material from multiple streams. Working memory: collecting and organizing the incoming material into a coherent mental representation. Long term memory: integrating the incoming material with existing knowledge from short term memory, necessary for deep thought. Info flowing into working memory at any given time. Info is stored for 1 sec then lost. Extraneous info squeezes out relevant info, preventing entry into working memory. Questionnaire of how much media used per week, and how much concurrently. Hmm has trouble with lots of distractors- target, a-x. Lmm and hmm have almost same rates 2-3 back but hmm has more false alarms. Hmm is slower to respond to switch trials. Multitasking overloads working memory, increases cognitive load, decreases relevant info going into working memory.
