PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Search, Creativity, Jerky
4 Feb 2016
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Attending to relevant and ignoring irrelevant info. Shows why we fail to notice things (e. g. continuity errors in. We think we remember more of the world than we do. Attention prevents early perception of irrelevant distractions. Info selected on basis of physical features dichotic listening task. We perceive both relevant and irrelevant then actively filter based on meaning stroop task. Controlled: actively attend to (e. g. naming colour of ink in stroop. Automatic: bottom up; activities that don"t require attention (e. g. task) reading in stroop task) Explains why you can"t pay attention to the radio when you"re driving in a storm and vise versa. Flanker task and rsvp task (for attentional blink) Attentional blink: we don"t have resources to attend to both stimuli (when shown within 550 ms of each other) each time something new appears there"s a slight gap which erases the second. We miss events or pieces of info without noticing.
