PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Daniel Kahneman, Donald Broadbent, Dictee

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

Document Summary

Part 1: doing two things at the same time. Reading at same time a taking dictation. Dictations writing down what someone is saying (ex. Practice for 85 hrs, over 17 weeks, they got good at it. After 17 weeks, normal reading speed and improved hand writing. They were able to do these tasks better after practice. filter model does not work with practice effects really well. Difficult to explain practice effects with filter model. Broadbent tried arguing that the filter could be switched from task to tsk in rapid alternations. A new metaphor: attention is like a resource: people have tossed this around because it is such an abstract idea. Daniel kahneman developed the idea that attentional resource model. He believed hen we are more aroused, we have more of th cognitive resources to do things, (available resources depends on arousal?) When we are sleepy etc, we might have less resource.