PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Inattentional Blindness, Headphones, Speech Shadowing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others william james. Selective attention: choosing where we devote our resources: selectively focusing on competing stimuli, implies we have control over where we allocate our attention. Vigilance: have to maintain level of awareness and focus to be able to respond to a rare event (post ww2 research focus: deaths due to human error in war, attention was one of human weaknesses. Divided attention: multitasking, dividing attentional resources, cell phones and driving: not good at dividing attention, sometimes must divide attention in terms of spatial field. Often better divided attention, harder to selectively attend or vice versa. Most research on attention focuses on selective attention. Auditory: classic experiments done in auditory domain.