01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stroop Effect, Attentional Blink, Fidgeting

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

Cognition refers to thinking, acquiring, and managing knowledge. Attention is the tendency to respond selectively to stimuli. It is generally true that a feature or object that is unusual or different will get your attention quickly, while one that is surrounded by similar objects will require a long and patient search: preattentive process, attentive process. Shifting attention: during a brief time after perceiving one stimulus, it is difficult to attend to something else, this is the attentional blink, darren brown - person swap. Change blindness: this is related to sensory memory, people believe they remember everything in a scene they have recently scanned, the failure to detect changes is change blindness. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: add is characterized by easy distraction, impulsiveness, moodiness, and inability to follow through on plans. When the symptoms include noticeable fidgetiness, the condition is referred to as adhd: there are ongoing disputes about the true nature of the disorder.