Infomation Processing Flashcards

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Developing selective attention

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Learning to focus and concentrate
-make stimulus more intense
Playing with distractions
Realwards and reinforcement
Mental practise

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Benefits of slective attention

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Improve reaction time
Improves concentration
Increases chance of success
Helps decision making
Prevents information overload

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Working and long term memory

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WM uses slective attention which sends coded information and memory traces to the LTM
LTM compared it to a past experience

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Ways to store information

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Mental practise
Association
Focus
Chaining- sequence
Rewards
Chunking
Repetition

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