Gestalt law that similar things appear to be groups together.
What is the law of similarity?
100
The type of attention when you are paying attention to multiple things at one time
What is divided attention?
100
The name of the phenomenon where the name of the word (a color) interferes with the ability to name the ink color
What is the stroop effect?
100
The three types of memory in the modal model of memory.
What are sensory, short term/working, and long term memory?
100
The very rapid memory that decays in a few hundred milliseconds.
What is sensory memory?
200
The Gestalt law that says that lines tend to be seen as following the smoothest path
What is the law of good continuation?
200
A research method in which a subject listens to two different messages (one in each ear) and is instructed to attend to one or the other
What is dichotic listening?
200
Rapid movements of the eyes from one place to another
What is a saccade?
200
The name for the part of working memory dedicated to the processing of auditory information.
What is the phonological loop?
200
One of the regions of the brain that houses the phonological loop.
What is Broca's area and the parietal lobe?
300
The direct perception theory that suggests that perception comes from stimuli in the environment that are identified and put together
What is bottom-up processing?
300
According to Broadbent's model, this s the name for the component that identifies an attended message based on physical characteristics and only passes that attended message to the next stage.
What is a filter?
300
Directing attention without moving the eyes.
What is precueing?
300
The principle referring to when you repeat "the the the the..." while doing a phonological task and it prevents the formation of a phonological code.
What is articulatory suppression?
300
The "coordinator" of working memory that is responsible for planning and coordination.
What is the central executive?
400
The ability of humans to recognize objects from different viewpoints, despite the fact that they may look different.
What is viewpoint invariance?
400
Suppose you're at a crowded dinner and there is a lot of noise, but you're able to hear your name out of the crowd. This is called...
What is the cocktail party effect?
400
The idea that stimulus that is not attended is not perceived, even though a person might be looking directly at it.
What is in attentional blindness?
400
Lumping parts together in order to increase working memory capacity.
What is chunking?
400
The component of working memory devoted to visual imagery and spatial processing.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
500
Refers to the task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on the retina and involves starting with the retinal image and then extending outward to the source of that image
What is the the inverse projection problem?
500
In Treisman's theory of attention, this analyzes incoming message in terms of physical characteristics, language, and meaning and passes on attended to message at full strength
What is an attenuator?
500
The idea that if shown two versions of a picture, differences between them are not immediately apparent, to identify differences requires concentrated attention and search.
What is change blindness?
500
The principle that confusion in the phonological loop may occur if words SOUND like each other, but not if they look like each other or mean the same thing.
What is the principle of phonological similarity?
500
The length of time after which working memory fades (without subvocal rehearsal).