Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pay Attention, Hemispatial Neglect

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Eriko Matsuki

Document Summary

If asked to draw clock, will remember 1-12 but put them all on right hand side. Selective attention: dichotic listening, wear headphones and listened to different input in each ear. Instructed to pay attention to one of these inputs (attended channel) and ignore messages in other ear (unattended channel: shadowing, attended channel contained recording of someone speaking, and are asked to repeat word for word as they"re listening. Study: participants told they would see large + shapes on computer screen, presented for 200ms, followed by pattern mask, press one button if horizontal line is longer, other button if vertical line is longer. Some asked to fixate on fixation target on center of screen, + shapes shown on the side. Inattentional blindness: participants were not expecting any shapes to appear and were not in any way prepared for them: a(cid:271)ility to see what"s arou(cid:374)d us is dra(cid:373)ati(cid:272)ally di(cid:373)i(cid:374)ished i(cid:374) the a(cid:271)se(cid:374)(cid:272)e, change blindness of attention.