PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Habituation, Unobservable, Exemplar Theory

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20007
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Implications of characterising by focussing selective attention on one feature. Consequence of selective attention: selective attention has limited capacity. If you"re attending to one aspect, you"re not attending to others. Attention & similarity: selective attention depends on your goals, attention changes similarity, similarity in the exemplar theory, attention accentuates differences on the attended dimensions, reduces differences on unattended dimensions. Learning categories vs using categories: categorisation focuses attention on diagnostic features. Inferring missing information: feature inference: categorisation tasks involve predicting a missing category label based on a set of features. Attention & uncertainty: uncertainty impacts your attention during learning, people tend to shift their attention to other features to make sense of why they make errors, broadening your attention allows you to learn more. Imperfect feedback causes you to shift your attention to figure out why you made an error: feature prediction results, with imperfect feedback, feature prediction indicates that people did learn the correlation.