FYSM 1607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Long Term Ecological Research Network
17 Dec 2018
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Means by which we actively process a limited amount of information from the enormous amount of information available through our senses, stores memories, and other cognitive processes. Selection becomes necessary whenever too much info reaches a bottleneck (a stage that cannot process al of it) Like two lanes of tra c merging into one. Can only listen to one channel at a time. People can attend to two channels at once (shadowing) Argues for a selective lter and a dictionary" Unattended messages aren"t completely blocked out > lter attenuates it (threshold) Thresholds vary across words and can be a ected by one"s expectations. Note: both these theories show that there is a lter or suppressor that comes before pattern recognition. Things that are ltered do not make it to pattern recognition. Paying attention to things that are important/relate to you. Can only uncover this after pattern recognition stage. We only remember what is important/relatable to you.
