PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Critical Role, Visual Search, Cocktail Party
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Attention definition: attention allows you to navigate through your surroundings, you wouldn"t be able to carry a conversation, understand a joke, or learn new things, defining attention is a challenging task. Single feature effect: when irrelevant information overwhelms us, we get distracted. For example; a walk down the sidewalk gets more difficult when you are looking for someone on a busy street and driving gets more difficult when talking on the phone or eating: automatic processes. Loud sounds and flashing lights of an emergency vehicle: consciously effortful tasks can become automatic through practice. Spotlight model: cuing paradigms test the automatic processes of attention. Flashing box and the star increase focus on certain area (usually visual) Filter model: we use auditory cues to filter target sounds from background noise. Spotlights enhance the stimulus, whereas filters supress the noise: decrease processing of everything around you (usually based on audio ques)
