Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychological Refractory Period, Parallel Computing, Information Processing

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

Document Summary

Taking the possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out what seem several simultaneous possible objects or trains of thought. (william james, 1890) (cid:862)fo(cid:272)alizatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d li(cid:373)itatio(cid:374) of i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) pro(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g resour(cid:272)es(cid:863) Processing resources: limited processing resource, limited capacity / supply, 2 tasks / processing activities can be performed if their attention demands do not exceed resource capacity, e. g. , answering a cell phone & driving a car. Attention resource / supply: limited capacity . Information processing: limited capacity processing channel, limitations in the number of activities that can pass through channel at the same time, serial vs. parallel processing, stimulus identification, response selection, response execution, each stage of processing takes time. Parallel processing: a type of information processing that allows people to handle two or more streams of information at the same time. Serial processing: a type of information processing that permits people to handle one stream of information at the same time.