EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stroop Effect, Automaticity, Interference Theory
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Concepts schemas & scripts, (defined by) personal theories & world views. A generalized idea, class of objects, events that share 1+ similarities. Schema: closely connected set of ideas related to a specific object or event. Menu select food pay use hands eat. Menu select food use knife/fork eat pay. Purpose of using schema/scripts: they assist in focusing our attention on relevant details while ignoring the irrelevant. Coherent belief systems that explain cause-effect relationships for individual. Help an individual organize and make sense of an experience. They can have strong connection to one"s culture and identity. Ex 2: humans must dominate vs live in harmony with other life forms. Sensory registers are run through perception first. What we register is different because we all perceive things differently. Delay in reading font color vs word. Allows us to process and react fast, and thus not have to attend to every piece of information that enters our senses.
