PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clef, Long Term Ecological Research Network, Alphabet Song

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Focusing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli. Lters out irrelevant stimuli (exp players in black shirts) Cognitive load - moves the lter forward. Only information that is attended to can be encoded. Dividing attention during encoding leads to impaired memory (exp word frequency in a conversation - listening for a word vs. listening to the content of the convo) Next in line effect (when you"re about to present, you don"t really listen to the person who goes before you because you are consumed with yourself) Memory test hotel dress acrobat lark accordion monk bouquet piano machine (9/15 words remembered from list) Its selective - details are added, excluded or altered. Every time you call up a memory, it is changed (memories you use the most, are the least accurate) Forgetting - de ciency in one or more of these processes. Passive encoding - simple information may be encoded automatically (exp parked car, last nights tv show, word frequencies)