PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Mind-Wandering, Headphones, Sport Psychology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

We all have a sense of what it is, but it"s hard to pin down. There are different aspects to attention, but we may refer to some/all of it. Attention is like a filter e. g. , listening to one person talk while others are talking. Attention is like a switch board: shifting attention between different stimuli. As you become more practiced at something, it requires less attention --> more attention left over to focus on other things. Which part of the scene/object are you focused on. It can move from one thing to another. Allows you to combine features of different objects, so that you can group them e. g. , only look at colour of different toys. Weapon focus: when robbed at gun point, the focus tends to be on the gun --> hard to describe perpetrator at a later time. Where"s waldo: harder to find for children & elderly.