PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: David Chan, Driving Simulator, European Route E60
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Pre-attentive - happens automatically, you break down things to its basic parts. Focused attention - you focus on the object that makes it what it is. Enough time and attention = combine the features to create holistic rep. People make a common error related to this. When we bind features together, sometimes we bind wrong features together to create an illusory conjunction. They didn"t make random errors, they tended to make errors based on swapping features. You would likely take a feature from one shape and a feature from another shape and combine. Argument: in this theory, there"s lots of features that are free floating. If you limit ability to correctly bind them, the brain randomly groups them together. This only happens when we limit ability to attend to array through: Reading is an automatic task to us, leading to the stroop effect. Wanted to test idea if they can create scenario where they can create a difficult automatic test.
