PSYCO258 Lecture 10: Attention 2
3 Feb 2019
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Loadtheoryoeattentiont continued . oadt#fahe# attention is a finite resource and we only have so much of it . (cid:8869) 100 units , 99 units of attention to the lecture. 50150 may be better even it things are missed : too many things may be difficult to keep attention to . Processing difficulty associated with an attentional task . differ. Will use more of the processing from person to person but the average person only has so many attention resources. Use more processing capacity which does not leave much attentional resources left for other things c difficult. Hd use less processing capacity which leaves a lot of attentional resources available for other things ( easy ) (cid:8869) stamping envelopes , while watching. Tv . you could probably be quite focused with the tv or a conversation as the task of stamping envelopes is quite redundant.
