Sensation, Perception & Attention
The process by which sense organs gather information about the environment and transmit this information to the brain for initial processing
Sensation
Theorists who created the multistore model
Atkinson & Shiffrin
Visual part of working memory that briefly holds and manipulates information about the appearance of objects and their location in space
Visuospatial Sketchpad
A role of the hippocampus in the formation of memories the consolidation of new declarative (semantic and episodic) memories so that they are neurologically stable and long-lasting.
True
The in-class activity where we looked at whether or not listening to meditation music improved working memory used which type of research design?
Experimental
The process of directing and focusing psychological resources to enhance perception, performance and mental experience
Attention
The store of memory which can hold a large amount of information for a long period of time.
Long Term Memory
Controls attentional processes by enabling the working memory system to selectively attend to some stimuli and ignore others.
Permanent storage of well-learned motor responses is a role of the Cerebellum in the storage of the memory.
False
An in-depth descriptive study of the behaviour of an individual using a variety of data collection techniques.
Case Study
Feature detectors filter the stimuli by responding to specific features of a stimulus and ignoring the rest.
Selection
What is the capacity of short term memory?
7 items (plus or minus 2)
Verbal part of working memory that holds and manipulates auditory information over short intervals of time.
Phonological Loop
Attaches emotional significance to memories and plays a significant role in the formation of emotional memories, particularly fear
Role of the amygdala in the formation of memories
Efficient and allows researchers to gain a large sample when they may lack funding/resources.
Strength of convenience samping
Our ability to focus our attention on a particular person’s voice amongst other voices and background noise.
Cocktail Party Effect
How is information transferred from short term memory to long term memory?
Rehearsal
A temporary multimodal store that combines information from the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad with information about time and order to create a unified memory can be deposited into long-term memory.
Episodic Buffer
Involved in the encoding of implicit memories such as procedural memory and classical conditioning.
Role of the Cerebellum in the formation of memories
Each participant having an equal chance of being allocated to a group/condition which minimises the effects of extraneous/confounding variables as it distributes these evenly between each condition
Random Allocation of Participants
The three processes of sensation
Reception, Transduction and Transmission
The types of long term memory - the two main types plus their relevent subtypes.
Declarative (Episodic and Semantic) AND
Procedural
A contribution of the working memory model
Identifies that short term memory is an active process with multiple components
Does not permanently store any memories itself and transfers them to the cerebral cortex for long-term storage.
Role of the Hippocampus in the storage of memories
If we ran experiment on how consuming caffeine impacted selective attention, how would we display the mean scores of the experimental and group, both before and after caffeine consumption?
Bar or Column Graph