PSY270H5 Lecture 5: PSY270 - Lecture 5
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Temporarily defined capacity limitation in cognitive processes (e. g. , remember all pictures in. Dip in accuracy at about 3 --> temporal window --> as if blinking, not taking in the information, so cannot report if x was present or not. If that critical window has passed, your attention gets better and can find the x. At lag 1 --> detecting the x is pretty good --> thus best described by 2 stage model: attentional blink & two-stage model of ab. Can quickly identify if thing flashing in front of you is an x or not. As soon as find target w/ high-capacity, need to put into memory --> this capacity is limited and very slow. Example: task is to report the # As soon as seen the #, stage 2 starts here. As soon as see x, it"s something you want to remember.
