PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anne Treisman, Mental Chronometry, Cocktail Party
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Theories of attention and studies of controlled attention. William james: first american psychologist and he described how to describe attention, (cid:862)e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s (cid:449)hat atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) is. It is the taki(cid:374)g possessio(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d, i(cid:374) (cid:272)lear a(cid:374)d vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies (cid:449)ithdra(cid:449)al fro(cid:373) so(cid:373)e thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) order to deal effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)el(cid:455) (cid:449)ith others (cid:863: theres a lot competing for your consciousness! When we mind wander, we pay attention internally: we cannot pay attention to everything. A common-sense approach to thinking about the bottleneck of attention. Lots of things happening in the world, we cannot process all of it. Bottle neck refers to how we reduce our processing! This theor(cid:455) a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e sa(cid:455)s that if (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t pa(cid:455) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g, it"s go(cid:374)e fore(cid:448)er. This is a simple basic model for how bottleneck occurs.
