PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Empirical Measure, Parietal Lobe, Classical Conditioning
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Allows you to navigate through a crowded world brimming with information and distractions. Without the ability to focus your limited processing resources, you wouldn"t be able to carry on a meaningful conversation, enjoy a piece of music, understand a joke, or learn new things. Study of attention covers a seemingly wide range of topics and psychologists have found it challenging to put forth a single all- encompassing operational definition. One which suits our purposes comes from the 19th century psychologist william james (same one as the levels of analysis unit: everyone knows what attention is. Center of the definition of attention: attending to something causes the object of attention to be selected apart from the rest of the unattended objects. When you first put on your clothes you can feel the fabric, but as you go on with your day, those sensations are gone.
