Cognitive Psychology (Memory) exam questions and answers
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Course
Cognitive Psychology
Institution
Cognitive Psychology
Sensory Memory
sensory input (vision/sound) that becomes informative for a brief period of time
-unattended information is quickly lost
Short-term working memory (active)
the process of storing and transforming information
-unrehearsed memory is quickly lost
Long-term memory (pa...
Cognitive Psychology (Memory) exam questions and answers
Sensory Memory - answer sensory input (vision/sound) that becomes informative for a brief period of time
-unattended information is quickly lost
Short-term working memory (active) - answer the process of storing and transforming information
-unrehearsed memory is quickly lost
Long-term memory (passive) - answer everyday notion of
memory, has unlimited capacity
-some information may be lost over time
Attention - answer the process that controls the flow of information from the sensory store into the short-term store Encoding - answer the process that controls the movement from the short-term store to the long-term store
-a side affect of a special interest
Retrieval - answer the process that controls the flow of information from the long term store into the short term store
Selective Listening - answer the ability to listen to one person's voice and disregard another's voice that is equal or louder
-possible if the voices are physically different
Selective Viewing - answer the ability to look at a certain item and blocking the other object, easier than hearing
Auditory Sensory Memory - answer -the subjects are likely to remember the last words spoken
Visual Sensory Memory - answer -George Sperling
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