APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cocktail Party, Sept
21 Apr 2016
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Attention is limiting didn"t notice gorilla go across scene. Card trick example didn"t notice everyone changed shirts and table cloth and background (main diff between two belowis that central comes from the same pool while multiple comes from diff pools) There is just one resource for everything we do (central resource capacity) You can do multiple things provided they fit into the one resource. Resources are flexible (ex. one resource can comprise of driving and talking to passenger) arousal can impact size of resource. For example is aroused and stressed resource shrinks and cant do so many things at once. Ex. you get money, and its flexible can earn more money to buy more or don"t earn more and keep buying more youll run out of money. Ex. auditory resource , verbal resource ex. (can do multiple things if they come from different resources, but if come from same resource its harder to do multiple things)
