distractor

I to put on the preliminary bout first, a little distractor.

A distractor task is given at a certain point in order to test for prospective memory.

But was he strong enough and alive enough for the distractor?

During efficient search, performance is unaffected by the number of distractor items.

In one of their experiments, participants were given a different distractor task after every item to be studied.

Are there any activities or hobbies that the client would use as distractor to release energy and tension?

This is often complicated by one or several "distractor" roots which happen to make sense in the context of two sentences, but not three.

But they said people could reduce preoccupation with a thought by picking another subject as a "distractor" and concentrating on that instead.

In the previous example provided, prime refers to the repeated perception of the blue pen as the distractor.

In theory, the longer the distractor task, the harder it will be for participants to correctly recall the trigram.

After the final word-pair, subjects had to do the multiplication distractor task for 20 seconds.

At the same time, retrieval cues for these items are no longer as effective as without the distractor.

In this trial, the repeated distractor of the prime trial is presented as the target.

Interferences are used to investigate how the response to the distractor changes under conditions of a third interfering stimulus.

Although both models are still valid, recent scientific research has led scientists to lean away from the distractor inhibitor model.

"Do you suppose you can come up with a distractor, Tarma?"

Further evidence against the existence of a short-term memory store comes from experiments involving continual distractor tasks.

Another group of participants exposed to the same footage were given a different task as a distractor, a verbal "pub quiz" game.

"It has become my tormentor, my distractor," she laments.

Follow-up sessions can be done at home with the parent using chloroseptic spray as the distractor.

In the distractor inhibition model, the activation of ignored stimuli is inhibited by the brain.

Palmer developed "the distractor", which he used to test if the material shown on Sesame Street captured young viewers' attention.

Each film appeared nine times as a target and nine times as a distractor.

In the context of the current study the relevant distractor items are likely to have been the other exemplars of a particular junction.

The visual channel is capable of being a powerful distractor instead of an essential part of the message.