PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Iconic Memory, Attentional Blink, Inattentional Blindness
26 Jan 2017
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Summary abstracts - short written responses up to 300 words that summarize the critical ideas for a topic. Will be explained more on february 1. Sensory memory: initial mental storage system for sensory stimuli. Top-down processing more about long term memory, bottom-up processing . Sensation: reception of physical stimulation and encoding of it into the nervous. Iconic memory: echoic memory more about short term and sensory memory. Inattentional blindness: the failure to seen an object we are looking at directly, even a highly visible one, because our attention is directed elsewhere system. Change blindness: the failure to notice changes in visual stimuli. Attention focal attention: mental attention directed toward, for example, the context of visual sensory memory and therefore responsible for transferring that information into short-term memory. Attention: the mental energy or resource necessary for completing mental process, believed to be limited in quantity and under the control of some executive control mechanism: operates under two assumptions:
