A state in which cognitive resources are focused on certain aspects of the environment rather than on others, and the CNS is in a state of readiness to respond
Attention
Representative Task: Monitoring a list for target words
Attention Component?
Sustained Attention
2 subcategories of long-term memory (LTM)
1) Explicit (Declarative/Conscious)
2) Implicit (Nondeclarative/Unconscious)
The 3 core executive function (EF) processes
1) Inhibitory Control (Response inhibition)
2) Working Memory (Updating)
3) Cognitive Flexibility (Mental set-shifting)
Ability to retain information or a representation of past experience
Memory
Ability to shift focus between tasks, stimuli, or response sets; mental flexibility
Alternating Attention
Remembering orcas hunt great white sharks
Semantic
Name 3 of the 4 higher order EF processes
1) Reasoning
2) Problem-Solving
3) Planning
4) Dual Tasking
Guide goal-directed & purposeful behaviors & contribute to the self-monitoring or regulation of task performance
Executive Functions
Representative Task: Listening to a spoken passage in the presence of background noise and/or distracting visual stimuli
Attention Component?
Selective Attention
Remembering all about the morning your niece was born 3 years ago
Autobiographical
Inductive, deductive, analogical, and abstract are my 4 types
Reasoning
Increases efficiency/ reduces cognitive load
Executive Functions
Representative Task: Doing math in one's head
Attention Component?
Working Memory
Associating the sound of a specific alarm on your phone with needing to take your medicine
Conditioning
I help you do multiple things at once, but I also decreased your working memory capacity
Dual tasking
Always defined in relation to a stimulus
Attention
Ability to control impulsive responding
Suppression
Remembering to submit your minute papers by this Sunday night at 11:59pm
Prospective
I help you to control your emotions and stay on task even when you want to quit
Inhibitory control