PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Sketchpad, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Thalamus
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Visual attention is selective and serial: search simple stimuli of 1 primary factor: auto, fast; Parallel processing: processing multiple types of info at once, allowing us to focus on targets and block distractors; features: color, shape, size, orientation, motion. Auditory attention allows selective hearing: can poorly attend to >1 message at once; can weakly process some unattended info; cocktail party phenomenon: can focus on 1 convo, but a certain stimulus like hearing your name will catch your attn. Shadowing: hearing 2 stimuli: repeat 1, filter 1; bypass filter: personally relevant info ie. name, or loud/ unique. Modal memory model: r. atkinson, r. shiffrin: 3 parts: sensory mem; short-term/working mem; long term mem. Sensory mem is brief: visual/ auditory mem maintained just long enough to ensure a continuous sensory experience; visual: 1/3 sec. Working mem is active: stm ; 4 components: central executive: control system; encodes from sensory mem, filters, retrieves.
