PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Classical Conditioning, Encoding Specificity Principle, Eyewitness Testimony

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

Document Summary

Focusing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli: filters out irrelevant stimuli (ex. players in black shirts, person dressed in gorilla costume when focusing on # of passes b/w players in white) Cognitive load moves the filter forward, can be light or heavy (ex. watching tv vs. writing an exam when someone enters the room in a gorilla suit) Only information that is attended to can be encoded: dividing attention during encoding leads to impaired memory (e. g. , word frequency in a conversation), next in line effect, using social media in the classroom. Recognition = consciousness in a way, processing (gorilla does not continue on through filter to next phase for response if i don"t pay attention to it, i can"t report on it ) Cocktail party effect = evidence that processing can occur late after recognition of meaning has occurred: ex.