PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Change Blindness, Retina

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Cheryl Chow

Document Summary

"no one knows what attention is and there may not even be an it there to be known about (although of course there may be) We are bombarded with information and attention is that filter of all the information. Bottleneck occurs at or prior to the stage of perceptual analysis. Filters early sensory information based on physical characteristics. Filtering based on physical properties but the unattended message is only weakened not blocked entirely. All sensory perceptual info goes through to analysis but the late. All sensory perceptual info goes through to analysis but the late filter blocks responding to one, which is then forgotten. Participants comes into the lab and told one story in one ear and another story in another ear that they are told to completely ignore. When shadowing the attended channel, people often cant even tell whether the unattended channel was nonsense or not. Yes some of the information from the ignored message gets through.