Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Automaticity, Iconic Memory
19 Oct 2018
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Participants saw a string of three digits, like "3 4 7". Then they were asked to do one or both of the two tasks: a. b. Do the first two digits add up to the third? (press yes or no) Report verbally the product of the first and third numbers (21) When participants had to do them as a single task, they spent less time on each task. The participants were not able to overlap the two computations. It is ballistic--> once begun, it runs to completion. It takes both practice and consistent mapping for a task to become automatic. It should be the same input and the same output. The hashtags are there to make sure that we don"t practice it, we don"t want out visual iconic memory to have the storage, we want this just to be our memory for the letters. Does one of the letters we just saw, t or k, appear in the next box.
