To cognitive psychologists, selective attention is

According to the Simply Smarter Project, long-term and working memory reach peak capacity at age

One way to increase the capacity of working memory is to

Which of the following is NOT a key feature of automatic processing?

In addition to acoustic and spatial codes, we also code information in working memory according to its

An area of increased brightness on a display monitor indicates more tissue absorption.

Which task involves the participant hearing a different message in each ear while the participant attempts to repeat back the message entering one ear?

The accuracy of the anatomic structural lines in the radiographic image displayed is determined by the:

Radiographic images of structures are always magnified when compared to the actual structure.

Alan is taking a test and is working on a difficult physics problem. In addition to remembering numbers and imagining objects in motion, Alan has to remember formulas that he learned while he was studying earlier in the week and combine these formulas with the numbers he is remembering and the objects that he is picturing. Which of the following components of working memory stores all of this information so that he can put it all together?