01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Brain Damage, Intellectual Disability, Language Acquisition Device

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dickson

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People don"t always know their own thought processes. Choice blindness: tendency for people to act as if they do not know what they have chosen. You are constantly bombarded with more sights, sounds, smells, and other stimuli than you can process. Attention: tendency to respond to and to remember some stimuli more than others. Loud noise or flashlight suddenly grabs your attention bottom up process (peripheral stimuli control it magicians use this tendency) Top-down process: you can deliberately decide to shift your attention. When you increase your attention to something in your visual field, the part of your visual cortex sensitive to that area becomes more active and receives more blood flow. When anything differs drastically from items around it in size, shape, color, or movement, we find it by a preattentive process (visual information that stands out immediately; for example, a white crane in the midst of black cranes)