PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Railways Act 1921, Attention, Cerebellum
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Inattention: failure to attend to something we are looking at is called inattentional blindness -- when we are focusing on something, we often miss some of the movement of something else; ), semantic ( facts and concepts: like a dictionary movements/skills control and emotional ( ); all the types of memories all about feelings at certain time were integrally connected but not isolated; continuous. For information that we cannot readily words; express in words; Biological bases of memory: hippocampus, amygdala, frontal lobe, motor cortex, cerebellum: Biological of memory: role of sleep: sleep: plays important part in formation of new memories, brain imaging with animals and humans: same patterns of neural activity in hippocampus found during initial learning of information and deep sleep; Eyewitness testimony: refers to episodic memories, occurs most frequently to witness of crime or dramatic event, eyewitness testimony is often inaccurate -- usually depended on the leading questions (can be usually mislead and influence the result);
