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Executive Function
Executive functions are a set of supervisory processes that control lower-level operations in the service of goal oriented behavior. The most commonly accepted "core" executive functions are shifting, updating, and inhibition (Miyake, Friedman, Emerson -
Cocktail party effect/Selective Attention
The Cocktail party effect is the phenomenon in which one can focus attention on a particular stimulus among others, such as a single conversation in a noisy room. Early experiments by Cherry and Moray used -
Donders' Subtractive Method (Mental Chronometry)
In the 19th century, Dutch opthalmologist Franciscus Donders assumed that the total time to complete a mental task was the summed duration of each component mental operation. To isolate a mental operation, Donders calculated the -
Source Monitoring
Source monitoring is an aspect of memory that deals with the origin, or source, of the information. Errors in source monitoring occur when the recollected origin of a memory is attributed to an incorrect source -
7. Cognition
Cognitive psychology/science tends to be the field most associated with the study of cognition or, broadly, the way people think. Cognition refers to the mental processes used to acquire knowledge and understand our environment
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