PSYCO258 Chapter Notes -Mind-Wandering, Attentional Shift, Operant Conditioning
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:the ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations involves the prioritizing of particular kinds of information over others: aspects of attention. :model of attention that proposes a filter that lets attended stimuli through and block some or all unattended stimuli designed to explain the results of an experiment on selective attention done by cherry: dichotic listening. Modifying the early selection model: broadbent"s early model was testable, causing more research. Second stage: dictionary unit: dictionary unit: a processing unit that contains stored words and thresholds for activating the words explains the cocktail effect. :the amount of information a system can handle at any given moment sets a limit to their ability to process incoming info: perceptual load. :the difficulty of the perceptual requirements associated with the task: low load tasks. : use up a small amount of processing capacity easy, well practiced tasks high load tasks.
