PSYCH 120A Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness, Neural Adaptation
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Chapter 4: attention enormous amount of information available through our senses. Attention: means by which we process a limited amount of information from an. Consciousness includes both the feeling of awareness and the content of awareness, Signal detection theory: some of which may be under the focus of attention. Miss = failing to detect a signal. False alarm = detecting a signal when there is none. Correct rejection = not detecting a signal when there is none. Sensitivity is measured in terms of hits minus false alarms the search process. The amygdala plays a pivotal role in the recognition of emotional stimuli. Search: scanning your environment for particular features. The display size effect is the degree to which the number of items in a display hinders. Conjunction search: looking for a particular combination of features. Feature-integration theory: explains the relative ease of conducting feature searches, Similarity theory: as the similarity between target and distracter stimuli increases, so.
