PSYC 341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cocktail Party, Switching Channels, Resource Allocation

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: michaeldougherty

Document Summary

Concepts-- how do we control our attention: exogenous control. Respond if letter a-g appears in middle position. 4 + signs and either z/t, or 7. Part of the visual field receives a lot of resources, periphery areas receive little or none: characteristics. More than one object can be contained within the spotlight. Attention can be isolated within concentric rings: processing outside of rings limited to physical characteristics. Hearing your name even when not paying attention to anything else. Feature integration model: story switching--> people are rarely aware of when they switch (switching from ear to ear as shown below with early selective problems, pre-attentive priming. Results of hearing name: without name: 6% notice, with name: 33% notice, pitch and location allow differentiation. R: 6 jec 9: people output objective, not ob2ive (left) Feature integration theory: distributed attention, we can filter stimuli on the bases of early and late processes.