PSYC 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Explicit Memory, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2510
• Professor: Agnieszka Kopinska

Document Summary

Selective attention is critical to everyday functioning focus on: unknown where this filter is. Key debate is whether stimuli is screened early/late in processing. Cocktail party phenomenon suggests that input is screened late in mental processing: ex: you are in a conversation and then you overhear your name in another conversation which you then turn your attention to. Empirical evidence indicates that people may have some flexibility in where they place their attention filter: divided attention can be difficult to keep up with. Tudies sho(cid:449) that the (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) (cid:373)ultitask (cid:894)e(cid:454) (cid:449)/ te(cid:454)ti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d d(cid:396)i(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:895) Levels of processing (figure 7. 2 on page 284) Theory proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer lasting memory codes. Kinds of memory codes people create depend on which aspects of a stimulus are emphasised. Structural, phonemic and semantic encoding emphasize the structure, sound and meaning of words: deeper processing result in better recall of info.