PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind-Wandering, Wilhelm Wundt, Psych

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

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Tests are 50-60 mc questions on material from readings & lecture: midterm = 40% (october 30th, in this room, final = 45% noncumulative (december 11th) Thought papers: three 1-page papers, 500 words answers to questions that are posted on canvas, each paper is worth 5% of final grade. (cid:498)everybody knows what attention is(cid:499) william james: gives you the sense that it"s easy to find and that everybody should know what it is, we focus on something and block out other things (selective attention) Attention glues together the different features of that thing. Wundt: gets credit for starting psychology. Attending to different speakers is not always observable.