PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lab Report, Mental Chronometry, Simon Effect
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Describe key dimensions of attention and it"s relationship with. Introduce concept of input and controlled attention to describe the major functions of attention. Summarize findings related to automatic and controlled processing. Participate in class experiment for participation credit. Key themes: attention, conscious vs. unconscious processing, bottom-up vs. top-down processing, serial vs. Change blindness video: when people were giving directions and something came in the way and the people switched without the other person noticing. When ur not paying attention to what your doing you wont notice the change. Attention is the process of concentrating mental effort on sensory or mental events we can pay attention to things out in the world and to our own thoughts. Attention has a limited capacity you can only pay attention to so many things for so long and so many things. There are many different types of attention but they all vary along certain dimensions.
