Psychology 2115A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Receptive Field, Gorilla Suit, Change Blindness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Philippe Chouinard

Document Summary

Important part of many sports, you may look to the left, and fake, but pass to the right. Stimulus salience: stimulus salience: refers to physical properties such as color, contrast, movement, and orientation that make a particular object or location conspicuous, attentional capture: when attention due to stimulus salience cause an involuntary shift of attention. In valid trials, the participant was told where the cue was going to represented (left side or right side). Speeding responding to objects: we also attend to specific objects in the environment, we will now consider some experiments that show, 1. Attention can enhance our response to objects: 2. Attention is directed to one place on an object, the enhancing effect of that attention spreads to other places on the object: 4 possible cues were shown to the observer, each on the four corners on the screen. We still have fast reflex against objects are partially obscured.