PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inattentional Blindness, Eye Tracking, Feature Integration Theory
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Attention: ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations. Selective attention: focusing of attention on one specific location, object or message. Not only highlights whatever is being attended, but also keeps us from perceiving whatever isn"t being attended. Overt attention: process of shifting attention from one place to another by moving the eyes, movements of the eyes provide observable signals of how attention is changing over time. Covert attention: occurs when attention is shifted without moving the eyes, commonly referred to as seeing something out of the corner of the eye. Divided attention: attending to two or more things at once. Can be overt and covert or a combination of the two. Dichotic listening: different messages presented to two ears. Participants instructed to pay attention to one message presented to one ear (attended message) and ignore the message presented to the other ear (the unattended message) Shadowing: procedure of repeating a message out loud.
