type of “media multitasking.” Multitasking in the academic world can be as reckless as texting and driving. Dividing your attention between two tasks is more time consuming and the overall performance is reduced. Media multitasking is illogical and counterproductive to effective theoretical learning and collegiate education. Completing tasks by giving an undivided attention and by ignoring and avoiding media distractions will produce more productive and successful processes and outcomes. The first
Long-term memory is how humans process in the present, recall information from the past, or think about the future. Without long-term memory one cannot remember past memories, today, or what we may plan to do in the future. On top of that, there is no learning without long-term memory and the progress that we see today in our fast pace driven world would not exist. This is why the study and understanding of long-term memory is important for further knowledge of human nature. The long-term memory itself
organize, strategize, pay attention to details, and manage time. This umbrella term is used to describe differentiated yet still interrelated processes responsible for purposeful behavior focused on goal-setting and selection, organization, and planning (Anderson, 2002; Berninger et al., 2008; Meltzer, Pollica, & Barzillai, 2007). Included in this umbrella concept are mental constructs such as planning, higher-order organizational strategies, initiation, inhibition, working memory, goal selection and monitoring
The Evidence for the Existence of Multiple Memory Systems Memory forms an important part of cognitive psychology and has been of interest to numerous psychologists. This essay is going to refer specifically to the information-processing model of memory and will discuss the experimental evidence that exists for multiple memory systems. The multi-store model of memory was first developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) and Waugh and Norman (1965).[1] It comprises sensory stores, short term-store
of attention tell of the brain’s usual attentional strategies? Attention is a deeper process than simply noticing incoming stimuli, it involves a number of processes including filtering perceptions, balancing multiple perceptions and attaching emotional significance to the perceptions (Ratey, 2001). There are two forms of attention, passive and active. Passive attention is the involuntary processes which are directed by the environment and external events e.g. a loud noise. Active attention is the
been stored in long-term memory through education and experience. Mental representations incorporate the ways in which people perceive problems to be faced, and these representations consist of verbatim- and gist-based representations. The two types of mental representations of content differ in the functionality and qualities of these representations. Verbatim representations relate to the specificities of information directly. Simply put, verbatim representations in the memory function similarly to