Cognitive Psychology (Memory) exam questions and answers

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 (passive) everyday notion of memory, has unlimited capacity -some information may be lost over time Attention the process that controls the flow of information from the sensory store into the short-term store Encoding the process that controls the movement from the short-term store to the long-term store -a side affect of a special interest Retrieval the process that controls the flow of information from the long term store into the short term store Selective Listening 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 the ability to look at a certain item and blocking the other object, easier than hearing Auditory Sensory Memory -the subjects are likely to remember the last words spoken Visual Sensory Memory -George Sperling -people are most likely to pay attention to the ones they are told to look at Attentional Capacity the gate between sensory memory & the short-term memory -video games improve memory -briefly flashed array can improve the memory of others - multitasking does not improve performance Priming activating sensory input nformation that is already stored in long-term memory Stroop Interference Effect an experiment that uses different colours to represent the actual word -people have the inability to read colour words Spatial Neglect the disability of unable to process information in the visual field opposite to the brain hemisphere The Phonological Loop storing many information by repeating the stuff over and over