Psychology 3185F/G- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3185F/G
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Set of mental processes involved in retaining a small amount of info in a temporarily accessiblestate for use in ongoing cognitive tasks. Selective attention: focusing on 1 thing specifically, ignoring surrounding -prioritising encoding task relevant info over task irrelevant info facilitate effective use of wm -wm for attended items better than unattended items (no matter is attention voluntary or automatic) Top-down attention: deliberately putting your attention in some way (voluntary) knowledge of the world- ex. Encoding order hypothesis: bottom-up attention only helps when multiple items competing for attention no effect of sequential (no effect when presented sequentially)-benifits of voluntary attention should be seen regardless of presentation (benefits from effective encoding. Within subject variable: each participant subjected to multiple levels of this variable each participant had both cued and uncued items. Might be a problem too leading to disorders like ocd, anxiety, depression directed.