Two things contribute to air pollution that can cause an air quality alert: 1  Ground-Level Ozone â High-levels of ground-level ozone are frequently the cause of air quality alerts. Ground-level ozone is created by pollutants such as car exhaust and industrial fumes mixing with oxygen.
Accordingly, working memory has come to be viewed as a flexible system that both maintains current information while supporting the simultaneous execution of higher cognitive functions. âHigher cognitive functionsâ (such as reasoning, comprehension, and learning) are the hallmark of contemporary intelligence test batteries, and form common colloquial descriptions of âintelligenceâ.
Humans donât process all incoming sensory. stimulation that is available. Human information processing starts very early. by seeking out, focusing, and selecting particular. aspects of the available information. Attention is the mechanism by which we restrict. information processing to only a small fraction of. the possible amount of information. Attention includes both conscious processes and. unconscious processes. Often cognitive processes (such as object. identification) are the end result of unconscious.