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Divided attention is paying attention
to more than one thing at a time (Goldstein, 2015, p. 87). The video "Big Bang Theory - Undivided Attention" shows how Sheldon expects Amy to give him her undivided attention in what he's saying just because he likes it but because she's not her attention is divided (2014).
Types of attention
Attending to one thing while ignoring others (Goldstein, 2015, p. 87). This was shown in the video "Selective Attention Test" which shows how we can overlook a gorilla entering the scene because of being focused on something else (2010).
Bumps in the Road
Broadbent proposed this theory based on results of experiments studying selective attention. He proposed that our minds bottleneck which is when we filter or restrict the information we give our attention to (Goldstein, 2015, p. 89).
Understanding attention
Episodic memory involves "mental time
time travel." Semantic memory involves common knowledge. Autobiographical memory involves a combination of episodic and semantic memory (PSY271 Chapter 6 Video, 2015).
Types of Long Term Memory
Focusing on specific features, objects, or locations or on certain thoughts or activities (Goldstein, 2015, p. 4).
Holds five to seven items for about 15 to 20 seconds (Golstein, 2015, p. 121).
A memory mechanism that can hold large amounts of information for long periodsof time. Long-term memory is one of the stages in the modal model activity in the synapse (Goldstein, 2015, p. 6).
According to Gestalt Psychologists
Points that, when connected, result in straight or smoothly curving lines are seen as belonging together, and the lines tend to be seen in such a way as to follow the smoothest path. Also, object that are overlapped by other objects are perceived as continuing behind the overlapping object (Goldstein, 2015, p. 65).
Types of Memory
This is an initial stage that holds all incoming information for seconds or fractions of a second (Goldstein, 2015, p. 121).
The whole is different from the sum of its parts (Goldstein, 2015, p. 64).
How We Organize Information
Leah Mercedes Sprock
Also known as the Principle of Good Figure or the Principle of Simplicity. It says that every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible (Goldstein, 2015, p. 65).
According to Gestalt Psychologists
The processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original information is no longer present (Goldstein, 2015, p. 5).
Communication
Conceptual Knowledge allows us to recognize objects and events and to make inferences about their properties (PSY 271 Chapter Nine Video, 2015).
Conscious experience that results from stimulation of the senses (Goldstein, 2015, p. 3).
How to acquire it
A system of communication through sounds and symbols. It allows to convey thoughts, emotion, and share experiences (PSY271 Chapter 11 Video, 2015).
Mirror neurons allow us to take on the experience of another. However, we are able to differentiate between other people's experiences and our own for a thing like touch because our sensory nerves tell us its not happening to us (Mirror Neurons that Shaped Civilization, 2009).
Processing
Our brains can be compared to computer systems, computer scientists call our system of neurons neural networks. The idea being that well designed input and output nodes process information (Intro to Neural Networks Video, 2009).
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A problem is an obstacle between present state and a goal, solution isn't immediately obvious (PSY 271 Chapter 12 Video, 2015).
Levels of knowledge
How to approach a problem
Experts solve problems in their field faster
and with more success than novices. Experts possess more knowledge and spend more time analyzing problems than novices. However, when given a problem outside their field experts perform no better than novices (PSY271 Chapter Twelve Video, 2015).
Problem solving, for the Gestalt
psychologists, was about (1) how people represent a problem in their mind and (2) how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation (Goldstein, 2015, p. 336).