NEUR 4306 Lecture Notes - Daniel Kahneman

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 4306
• Professor: kim hellemans

Document Summary

1: lecture #4 outline, divided attention (ch. #4. Limited flexible, can be allocated: two types of attentional limits: Even if we put a lot of effort towards something, that task will only let us get to a specific level of attention. Type of limit: example of attentional resource sharing: driving car + texting, driving is a dynamic test. Takes a lot of resources: texting also takes a lot of resources, studies have shown that texting while driving is similar to drinking. 4: norman & bobrow (1975, accept idea of resource limits data limits called structural limited data limits. E. g. task is too difficult, you do not hve the knowledge or skill set. 6: automaticity (schneider & shiffrin, 1977, looked at cognitive processes, processes thatc an be done without a lot of attention. Happens even if you don"t want it to. Hard to inhibit it do not require resources. Don"t just happen on their own require resources require attentional resources.