Kinesiology 1080A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual Search, Frontal Lobe, Superior Colliculus

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

Document Summary

Attention focalization and limitation of information processing resources . Had students listen to lists of 100 words 4 times. When 15 of the words were seen the student received a mild electrical shock. You can attend to something without being consciously aware. 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 and driving a car. Slide 85: that capacity may be able to be taken up by more than one task. If driving when it"s not busy 401 at 6am on a sunday morning: capacity can become overloaded, meaning an inability to divert enough attentional resources to primary task; could lead to a collision. If driving when it"s really busy 401 at 12pm on a friday of a long weekend: number 1 distractor when driving: children, your expertise with driving will allow greater attention to be diverted to other tasks.