Human Information Processing Flashcards
(10 cards)
basic model
stimuli
analysis
action
feedback
motor programme and skills
no consiconuess effort is required to contrl the actions
Three main causes of action
Consicous decision-making, motor programmes , reflexes
perception
recieving info from the env and analyising it to make it meaningful.
sensory memory
short-term memory of sensed information. Images stay shorter (1 seconds) than sounds, which is 5 seconds.
precoding
Selective attention, what’s an important stimuli for us
semantic memory
long-term memory of usually language
episodic memory
memory of events
amnesia
total or partial loss of memory caused by physical injury. usually effects just the episodic memory
Short-time memory duration
up to 20 seconds