PSYCH101 Midterm: Psych Midterm All Notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Cocktail party effect is evidence that processing can occur late after recognition of meaning has occurred. Eliminate things in background when focusing on a specific thing (filtered out) Filter can either be before the recognition of meaning or quite late after recognition of meaning. Stimulus comes and grabs attention even though there is not conscious awareness. Cognitive load: how mentally busy you are, how likely you are to hear a stimulus. Reconstruction where you have to build from the beginning each time. Memory is a reconstructive process that needs to build every time. Source amnesia - forget the source of memory where you think it is from you but it is from someone else. The more accurate memory is something you only think about once - less accumulation of errors. There is no evidence that people can recapture memories - result of suggestive processes (ex. How does memory work: three different memory processes, encoding - enter info into memory (ex.