PSYC 1013 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Libido, Medium Frequency, Drain Cleaner

• School: Acadia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1013
• Professor: Mehta Rick

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Topics include: attention, sleep and dreaming, altered states (drugs and alcohol) Process of seeking out stimuli and focusing on them. Different from simply being aware of internal and external stimuli. Function- allocate of mental resources, selective about information that is processed. Dichroic listening- (cid:373)essages goi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:271)oth ea(cid:396)s, (cid:271)ut diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t o(cid:374)es. *cocktail party effect- (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e at a pa(cid:396)t(cid:455) talki(cid:374)g to so(cid:373)e(cid:271)od(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:455)ou(cid:396) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) gets d(cid:396)a(cid:449)(cid:374) a(cid:449)a(cid:455) from somebody saying your name. Change blindness- failure to detect change in a scene when the alteration coincides with a brief visual disruption. Intentional blindness- inability to attend to a new even while attending to another event. Experimental- driving stimulator, people pay more attention to blue than yellow, will ignore yellow for blue, myth about hands free phone, conversation is diverted while driving. One skill interfering with the performance of another action. Demo- bars of different colours, name them, names of colours in different colour.