PSYC 2400H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Donald Broadbent, Cocktail Party, Automaticity

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Midterm: next week: definitions, short answer, maybe multiple choice, permitted: 3(cid:1689)x5(cid:1689) card with notes. Https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=kzo45hwxrwu: similar to the dichotic listening task, but visual, youtube video. Very different than popular definition: broadbent: filter model. Cocktail party effect: identified attentional filter model. Revised theory: leaky filter model treisman ** exam. Attentional filters: early vs late: 2 diagrams. Change over time: easy and/or well, video: When you do something a lot, the brain does not need as much thinking to do it (doing it without giving it attention) Ex. we learned to walk and now use automaticity to walk, babies need to use all of their focus to walk. Page 2 of 4: fact: during a saccade, your brain stops processing visual information: effectively blind, saccadic masking/saccadic suppression. Memory: process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, and skills after the original information is no longer present.