Suppose that you are watching a movie. Two men are talking, and the camera focuses on a man in a blue shirt, with long sideburns. The focus shifts to the other man. Then it returns to the man in the blue shirt—but now his sideburns are about an inch shorter. If you fail to notice that he looks different, you are experiencing

Sensory memory begins to fade

You are on a walk when you see a strange black shape on the side of the road. It takes you a moment to recognize the object as a television, because it is in an unusual orientation. According to the viewer-centered approach (a modification of the recognition-by-components theory), you take longer to recognize objects in non-standard viewpoints because you must

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?