Test 1 - Memory, Language, and Cognition

Failure to detect an obvious change in a display due to either a failure to store the information initially or a failure to compare the relevant information to a previous representation. Things are constantly changing in our environment and many times we don’t even recognize it. Things are constantly changing in our environment and many times we don’t even recognize it. In order to complete this successfully you have to be able to run two renditions of the scene. In order to complete this successfully you have to be able to run two renditions of the scene.

• Change Blindness

• Inattentional Blindness

Failure to see unattended items that are in plain sight. Ex: Simons’ (2010) Monkey-Business Illusion. Ex: Not seeing the monkey (you just missed it).

• Change Blindness

• Inattentional Blindness

___ Store: this is where minor details about an event that just occurred briefly go before the memory vanishes because it has been temporarily entered into this

Sensory ___: this is where minor details about an event that just occurred briefly go before the memory vanishes because it has been temporarily entered into this

Tested how much information people can retain in the sensory store. He flashed an array onto a screen for 50 msec (1/20th of a second). He then asked viewers to report as much of the whole array as they could.

• George Sperling

• George Miller

Came up with the magical number 7 plus or minus 2

• George Sperling

• George Miller

___ is not increasing the capacity of short-term memory. Biologically, we are limited in how much short-term memory space we have. However, we can change how we use this capacity. Ex: putting shelves and hangers in a closet so that you don’t just throw everything into the closet.

“I remember the answer to that question” type of memory

• Declarative

• Episodic

events including time and place; what separates humans from other animals; typically memory for experiences

• Declarative

• Episodic

___ memory: can encompass episodic AND semantic memory AND procedural. Includes self-knowledge as well as memories surrounding this knowledge of oneself. Ex: your birthday (semantic, but not episodic or procedural)

Not just identity but what informs your identity.