PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Long Term Ecological Research Network, Long-Term Memory, Working Memory

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

Document Summary

Shift your attention to change your experience - your control. How good is our attention? (changeable/ not changeable?) Maximize how we use the amount, but can"t change the amount. Same sense (ex: listening to music and someone talking) - most interference. Cross sense (ex: when driving, turn down the sound) - some interference. Reduce what else is being processed by brain, attention shift. Attention is two processes: focus limited resources on relevant information, blocking out irrelevant information. The more we multitask - harder to allocate attentional resources, has more trouble blocking out what you should not pay attention, hard to lter it out. Messages (stimuli) get sent into the selective lter (brain) some get put through, some don"t, then to the limited capacity decision channel, possibly tot long term memory, then response. Community sample of adults, randomly assigned into 1 of 2 groups. Right ear, repeated they throw stones at the bank yesterday .