PSYC 334 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Speech Shadowing, Word Stem, Visual Search

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 334
• Professor: Martinusvanden Berg

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Audio recording started: 10:58 am monday, september 12, 2016. Sensory register attention working or short term memory. Taking possession of your mind and withdraw from everything else; to deal effectively we need to draw attention to the specific thing and ignore everything else. Attention as a process: the process of paying attention, focusing on, concentrating on something. Attention as a resource: the limited fuel that makes the cognitive system run. Paying attention: carefully selecting only one, or very few, mental tasks on which to concentrate your limited attentional resources. You"ve got to be awake to process information. (explicit processing) But, implicit processing: processing of information without involvement or conscious awareness. Bonebakker et al. (1996) word stem completion task. Reflexive attention/orienting response: the reflexive redirection of attention that orients you toward an unexpected stimulus. Involves the where pathway, to find the location of the unexpected stimulus. The mental attention-focusing mechanism that prepares you to encode stimulus information.