Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-8: Superior Colliculus, Procedural Memory, The Need

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Pysch 2135 second midterm notes: bottleneck theories: you erect a filter that shields you from potential distractors, desired info is not filtered out and so goes on to receive further processing. Not only do you block unattended stimuli, you promote the processing of desired stimuli. Perception requires primed detectors and this priming can come from two different sources: 1. A simple matter of the stimuli you have encountered in the past (recently or frequently), requires no effort and resources (hearing your name: (cid:1006). Stimulus-based priming has no coast in the misled trials, expectation-based leads to slower rts in the misled trials sti(cid:373)ulus-(cid:271)ased does(cid:374)(cid:859)t take a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g a(cid:449)a(cid:455) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the other detectors, whereas expectation-based does li(cid:373)ited-capacity system. Initially the person will prefer objects that fall in the red barbell which is on the right side of his visual field. Is not a parietal syndrome rather it is an attentional network syndrome.