PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visual Search, Simple Features, Speech Shadowing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

Document Summary

1. he mental process of concentrating effort on a stimulus or mental event; the limited. 2. mental energy or resource that powers the mental system input from the world sensory memory--attention working memory long-term. Memory: meaning, alertness and arousal, orienting and searching, filtering and selecting, mental resources and conscious processing. 2. is what occurs within the cognitive system the mental effort in an attempt to identify the pattern =attention. Implicit processing: processing in which there is no necessary involvement of conscious awareness, powerful in memory: word stem completion task. Orienting and searching: orienting: the alignment of information pickup mechanisms with a source of information. Pop-out" search and favouring voluntary control in serial search f. foveation: an eye movement that places the region of a scene that requires fine, detailed processing onto the sensitive fovea. Rt to the second target will be delayed: attentional blink: a temporary slowdown in mental processing due to having recently and actively processed another task-relevant event.