PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Closed Head Injury, Attentional Blink, Anterograde Amnesia
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Temporal attention: temporarily defined capacity limitation in cognitive processes (eg. remembering all the pictures in the rsvp paradigm, at the end of the presentation. Two stage model of ab: chun & potter"s 2 stage model: Multi-tasking: performing more than one task at the same time, performance on each task becomes worse when compared to single-tasking performance, switch cost: the cost in performance induced when the task switches to a different one. What is memory: memory allows us to encode and store information so that we can retrieve it later in time when we need it. Why was the second one really difficult while the third one was comparatively easier: amount of information we can encode at a time seems to be limited. But why was the last one very easy: some information allows more efficient encoding than other information. Sperling (1960: quickly presented rows of letters and asked participants to report them all (whole report)- difficult.
