PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Automaticity, Lightdark, Operant Conditioning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Smith

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The difficulty of doing two things at the same time and getting better at it with practice. Part i: doing two things at the same time. Doing two things at the same time when one captures our attention. Potential distraction by background music (distraction of irrelevant stimuli) Not as great when there are no lyrics. Focusing on one specific stream of stimuli/message/signal. Divided attention to the exclusion of other stimuli. Focusing on multiple streams of stimuli/messages/signals/tasks (e. g. dichotic listening. Initially, it is hard for one to two things at the same time. Processing and comprehension are less sufficient because both tasks requires a greater demand of cognitive resource (attention) Potentially, we get distracted by the background music (unless the music is in a language that we do not understand) Spelke et al. "s dual-task experiment with neisser (overlapping video study) Subjects have to perform two incompatible tasks with extensive practice (e. g.