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- a person's thoughts shift from external towards inward self -
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mind wandering
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- a single letter is more rapidly and accurately recognized when it appears in a meaningful
word than when alone or in a string of meaningless letters -
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word superiority effect
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- ability to discern between information bearing patterns which we call "stimulus" and
random patterns that distract from information called "noise"
- used when psychologists want to examine decision making under certain conditions -
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signal detection theory
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- as distractors increase, ability to detect target pattern decreases
- more evidence is required to make a decision about whether target was present -
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know the results of signal detection experiment
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- attempt to eliminate thoughts, ideas, and images related to an undesirable stimulus
- very difficult
- most famous study: white bear study -
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thought suppression
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- attempts to generate computer models that stimulate cognitive processes -
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artificial intelligence
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- attempts to take human limitations into account
- must show same number and type of errors as humans -
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computer stimulation
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- attention when a task focuses on conflict
- stroop task
- mostly top-down processing
- important for academics and learning new ideas -
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executive attention network
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- attentional demands due to cell phone use interferes with performance
- not phone but the conversation -
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Strayer and Johnston's stimulated driving study
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- B.F. Skinner
- precise definition that specifies exactly how a researcher will conceptualize and measure a
concept -
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operational definition
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- backwards saccadic eye movements
- 15-25% of all movements are regressive
- typically an indiction of comprehension difficulty -
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