2.1 Perception
One chooses where to focus their attention
What is Selective Attention?
All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is Cognition?
The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
What is Memory?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units
What is Chunking?
Remember the beginning of a list
What is Primacy effect?
phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room
What is Cocktail Party Effect?
A grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is Concept?
A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier
What is Recall?
Retention of facts and experience that we can consciously know and declare
What is Explicit Memory?
An effortless immediate, automatic feeling or thought
What is Intuition?
Monocular cue where parallel lines appear to meet in the distance
What is Linear Perspective?
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
What is Algorithm?
The process of getting information into the memory system
What is Encoding?
Encoding on basic level bases on the structure or appearance of words
What is Shallow Processing?
A measure of memory in which the person identifies items previously learned
What is Recognition?
Failing to notice changes in the environment
What is Change Blindness?
Fallacy where we stick to our original plan because we have invested our time, even when switching would help us.
What is Sunken Cost Fallacy?
Memory related to future actions
What is Prospective?
Remember the end of a list
What is Recency Effect?
Ability to see in 3 dimensions, although the images that strike the retina are in 2D.
What is Depth Perception?
Failing to see visible objects when our attention is elsewhere
What is Inattentional Blindness?
Judging the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
What is Availability Heuristic?
A memory component that briefly holds auditory information
What is Phonological Loop?
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli
What is Iconic Memory?
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli
What is Echoic Memory?