PSYC*1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation, Joint Attention, Dishabituation
Document Summary
Analyzes the ways people process information about their world: manipulate information, monitor it, create strategies to deal with it, effectiveness involves attention, memory, thinking. Speed of processing information: assessed using reaction time tasks. Changes in speed of processing: improves dramatically through childhood and adolescence, changes due to myelination or experience, decline begins in middle adulthood; continues into late adulthood. Does processing speed matter: linked with competence in thinking, for many everyday tasks, speed is unimportant, efficient strategies can compensate for slower reactions times and speed, processing linked to accumulated knowledge and abilities to perform. Attention: focusing of mental resources: four types. Habituation: decreases responsiveness to stimulus after repeated presentations. Dishabituation: recovery of a habituated response after change in stimulation: joint attention begins about 7 to 8 months of age, gaze following: begins at 10 to 11 months of age, joint attention. Individuals focus on same object or event and requires.
