PSYC 40445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Receiver Operating Characteristic, Embodied Cognition, Detection Theory

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 40445
• Professor: John T.Dunlosky

Document Summary

You"re walking to class and thinking about a quiz that"s coming up. Our last topic has to do with the task of paying attention. Sometimes you have to concentrate on something in which you have no interest. Sometimes you have to not think about something in which you have an interest. Try not to think of a white bear. Five minutes, measure the number of times people do it. Both are hard, with less activity later on. After suppression, it"s easier to keep thinking about a white bear. After expression, it"s still hard not to think of a white bear at first, but people adapt. Cognition must cope with predators, prey, stationary objects and terrain as fast as the situation dishes them out. How do you get robots to think about walking on uneven terrain, or to swing from branch to branch, or looking around a crowded room looking for a soda without bumping into something.