PSYCH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Anterograde Amnesia
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Consciousness: pre-attentive processing: all info in sensory memory is analyzed to determine its relevance. Brain mechanisms of pre-attentive processing and attention: general conclusions, 1. Stimuli that are not attended to nevertheless activate sensory and perceptual areas of the brain: 2. Attention magni es the activity that task-relevant stimuli produce in sensory and perceptual areas of the brain, and it diminished the activity that task- irrelevant stimuli produce: attention causes greater activation of the relevant sensory and perceptual areas, 3. Neural mechanisms in the anterior (forward) portions of the cortex are responsible for the control of attention. Duh: much better at doing two tasks if one is auditory and the other is visual. Testing the limits of working memory: dual-task performance. Encoding information into long-term memory: two kinds of rehearsal, 1. Maintenance rehearsal: process by which a person holds information in working memory for a period of time: 2.
