PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Inattentional Blindness, Long-Term Memory, Change Blindness
10 Mar 2018
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We have a fixed amount, varies person to person. Having headphones in in class and listening to a teacher talk; you. Attention is two processes can only focus on one. We need to filter out messages/sensory inputs through a selective filter. Retrieving, putting message into long term memory storage that creates a behavioral/emotional response. Even when you"re not paying attention, it still comes through (weak, non-conscious) Subtle messages influence how we interpret things going on. Asking people to focus attention on one auditory stimuli while purposefully giving another. Mind is always trying to balance efficiency and accuracy. Sometimes you need more of one than the other. A lot of cognitive effort; dealing with unfamiliarity. Inattentional blindness: focusing on a task on hand, we miss something obvious. If the element that we missed is very similar to what we are doing. Change blindness: something interrupting the change in your vision. Not processing details in the first place.
