APSC 1113 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cataplexy, Libido, Anxiolytic
3 Nov 2016
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Subject awareness of internal and external stimuli. Process of seeking out stimuli and focusing on them. Different from simply being aware of internal or external stimuli. Cocktail party effect: peoples attention will shift when people hear something important such as their name. Change blindness: failure to detect changes in a scene when the altercation coincides with a brief visual disruption. Occurs even when people are instructed to look for a change. In-attentional blindness: inability to notice a new event (b) while attending to another event (a) Driving: busy intersection, too busy looking for pedestrians and other cars not noticing bikers. Use of cell phones while driving, or using phones during a lecture/class. Dual task interference: having one skill, interferes with your performance on another task. Stroop task: 3 conditions: red bar, name the color of the bar, the word red, is written in red ink, the world is blue, but is written in red.
