PSYC2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mental Chronometry, Impulsion, Germanic Peoples
27 Dec 2018
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There are two well-defined forms of attention: spontaneous, natural. Neglected by most psychologists, but the true, primitive, and fundamental form of attention. It tells us, whether a person is frivolous, vulgar, narrow, open, or deep. The only investigated by most psychologists, but an imitation, a result of education, of training, and of impulsion. Precarious and vacillating in nature, it derives its whole being from spontaneous attention, and finds only in the latter a point of support. Merely an apparatus formed by cultivation, and a product of civilisation. Control over attention - even if you are doing two tasks at once, you"re just switching between the two rapidly. Exogenous - drawn by the salience of stimuli outside. Posner (1980) - if you attend to a particular location, you are gonna be faster to react to anything in that location. Endogenous cueing task (the arrow) - you need to be told and believe it is pointing in the.
