Attention
a change in a visual stimulus that is not noticed by the observer.
What is change blindness?
Free recall, cued recall, and recognition.
What are the three most used memory tests?
Tendency to keep approaching a problem in a certain way.
What is metal set?
Our attention system is what determines what our minds are receptive to.
What role does attention play in perception?
Formatted acoustically, rather than semantically.
What is the format of short term memories, and how does it differ from long term memory?
Not focusing enough on attaining a conceptual understanding or learning the underlying applications.
What is a common cause for a failure in problem solving transfer?
Non-selected information is not blocked, just attenuated in strength.
What is Treisman's attenuation theory?
Memory is best when cues correspond to the way the information was encoded.
What is the encoding specificity principle?
Judging the likelihood of an event according to the ease with which examples come to mind.
What is the availability heuristic?
We retrieve bit and pieces of past events with gaps in our memory, but fill those gaps in with elements from other sources.
What is meant when we say memory is dynamic, integrative, and reconstructive?