COMM 200 Midterm: COMM200 Exam #2 Study Guide Part 2
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The amount of time someone can mentally concentrate on a task without becoming distracted. Different businesses trying to fight for our attention. Sensory memory: impressions of sensory information retained after the original stimuli have ended. Long term memory: permanent memory: explicit(things you don"t have to work to think about) It is an overload of information (associated with the internet) that mskes it harder to retain information in the working memory . Students learn better using a pen and a paper because they focus more on listening, digesting and summarizing. People read faster online which means that they dont digest as much information. They also have a harder time remembering abstract ideas. The internet retains information so that we don"t have to recall it. We don"t have to remember anything because we can just look it up. We remember how to get the facts but we don"t remember the facts themselves. Dealing with more than one task at a time.
