PSY 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Attentional Blink, Cognitive Load, Daniel Kahneman
7 Mar 2020
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Prp: psychological refractory period, time where something can"t happen again. Key manipulated variable: stimulus onset asynchrony (soa: shorten the soa, the first task doesn"t suffer, but response time increases for. 2nd one: attentional blink is an example. Word or non-word, if picture was fruit or not fruit. We have a certain availability of attentional capacity: primary task, secondary task, capacity changes with alertness and motivation, attention is a limited mental resource, devote to one task or divide between tasks. Explanation for ab: mental effort (task difficulty, the attentional blink . Capacity theory of attention: assumes a single, undifferentiated, pool of attention, account for task difficulty findings, accounts for task practice findings, explains a number of attentional phenomena. Task similarity effect: tasks that require similar processing are harder to put together (e. g. , brooks, 1968: v1-v0 + s1-s0, v1-s0 + s1+v0. Philosophy of science (e. g. , popper, kuhn) argues that a scientific theory must be both: testable, falsifiable.
