Cognitive psychology-Memory
Answer each question in 500 words perfectly.(if it asks for evidence or experiment, please show and demonstrate, explain and discuss the evidence as well)
1. a. )Distinguish between ‘top-down’ vs. ‘bottom-up,’ and ‘covert’ vs. ‘overt’ attentional mechanisms.
b.) Describe the phenomena of ‘change blindness’ and the ‘attentional blink’, and present experimental
support for the existence of each.
2. Describe at least one piece of evidence that suggests a functional distinction between long-term memory and
short-term memory. Distinguish between different types of long-term memory, including declarative, episodic,
and procedural memory, and describe at least two pieces of experimental evidence that support the validity of
these distinctions.