HCI Memory and attention

According to the multi-store model, what is the term for the memory that holds information for a short period of time?

• Procedural memory

• Working memory

• Semantic memory

• Episodic memory

What is the term for the phenomenon where a person shifts their attention from one conversation to another in a crowded room?

• Divided attention

• Selective attention

• Controlled processing

• Automatic processing

According to bottleneck theories, what do humans selectively process due to limited capacity?

• Everything they smell

• Everything they hear

• Everything they see

• Everything they touch

What is the term for the problems encountered when trying to execute an action or make sense of the results of an action, as per Donald Norman's model?

• Gulf of execution

• Gulf of evaluation

• Affordance

• Mental model

What is the term for the picture someone has of how something works and what it does?

• Mental model

• Controlled processing

• Affordance

• Automatic processing

According to the Model Human Processor, what does a person produce as a result of processing some input?

• An intention

• An output

• A mental model

• A goal

What is the term for the mental effort required to focus attention and make sense of a task, as per capacity theories?

• Mental capacity

• Automatic processing

• Cognitive load

• Controlled processing

According to the multi-store model, what is the term for the memory that can go back through our entire lifetimes?

• Episodic memory

• Long term memory

• Procedural memory

• Semantic memory

What is the term for the process of searching through memory to find a piece of information, as per Benyon (2019)?

• Recognition

• Mental model

• Affordance

• Recall

According to the multi-store model, what is the term for the memory that holds information related to meaning?

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Long term memory

• Episodic memory