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The first name of the character who suffers from inflammation of the brain in the movie "Brain on Fire"
Who is Susannah?
the mental process of concentrating effort on a stimulus or mental event; an
activity that occurs within the cognitive system, a process
What is attention?
The information processing system that works constructively to encode, store, and retrieve information
What is memory?
The process by which short-term memories are changed to long-term memories
What is consolidation?
The first step of selective attention
What is sensory input?
She developed the Attenuation Model of Selective Attention
Who is Treisman?
the basic processes of getting
sensory information into the cognitive system so it can be further processed.
What is input attention?
The first stage of memory formation
What is sensory memory?
A memory process that selectively retrieves memories that match one’s mood
What is mood congruent memory?
The third stage of memory
What is long term memory?
He suffered from the greatest memory loss known, where he experienced both anterograde and retrograde amnesia.
Who is Clive Wearing?
What is implicit processing?
a passive storage system, meaning information is held but not actively manipulated or used for complex tasks
What is short term memory?
builds upon STM by actively manipulating and processing the information held in short-term memory
What is working memory?
“7 plus or minus 2” chunks
What is short term memory?
He developed the filter model of selective attention
Who is Broadbent?
The cognitive process of
focusing on specific stimuli while
filtering out irrelevant information
What is selective attention?
Division of LTM that stores memories for how things are done
What is procedural memory?
Explanation for the fact that information that is more thoroughly connected to meaningful terms in LTM will be better remembered
What is Levels-of-processing theory?
requires activating mental representations in long-term memory and copying them into short-term memory, where we consciously experience them
What is memory retrieval?
He graphed the forgetting curve
Who is Ebbinghaus?
The mental process of
eliminating distractions or
eliminating unwanted messages
What is filering/selecting?
seahorse shaped brain structure that is critical for memory formation
What is the hippocampus?
Process of memory distortion as a result of deliberate or inadvertent suggestion.
What is suggestibility?
Step or process that determiens whether sensory memory gets into short term memory
What is attention?