PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Overdiagnosis, Methylphenidate, Encephalitis

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

With sufficient practice, task performance can go forward with no executive control. Performance is essentially not controlled mental reflex . Automaticity a state achieved by some tasks and some forms of processing, in which the tasks can be performed with little or no attention. Participants are shown a series of words and asked to name aloud the color of the ink used for each word. Strong tendency to read the printed words themselves rather than to name the ink color. Word recognition enormously well practice and can proceed automatically. You can"t spend more resources than you have. The exact resource demands on several factors. If 2 tasks make competing demands on task-specific resources interference. If 2 tasks make competing demands on task-general resources interference. Leakage of bits of one input into the other input. Attention is an achievement of performing multiple activities simultaneously or an achievement of successfully avoiding distraction.