PSYC 1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Driving Simulator, Stroop Effect
5 Nov 2016
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What is consciousness: subjective awareness of internal and external stimuli. The process of seeking out stimuli and focusing on them. Different from simply being of internal or external stimuli: function. Studying attention: dichotic listening- listening with two ears; shadowed and non-shadowed channels, cocktail party effect- a sudden shift in attention when a person hears something important, such as their name. Failure to detect changes in a scene when the alteration coincides with a brief visual disruption. Occurs even when people are instructed to look for changes. Inability to notice a new event (b) while attending to another event (a) In a driving simulator, the driver is told to follow the blue arrow, ignore the yellow arrow. When the blue motorcycle appeared on the simulator, people easily stopped in time, meanwhile if the yellow motorcycle appeared, it was hit 36% of the time by participants: dual task interference. Having one skill that interferes with the performance of another task: stroop task.
