PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attention, Subjective Constancy, Railways Act 1921

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

*take deliberate actions based on what we recognize in our environment. *perform automatic actions (often without being aware of them) based on the cues that our sensory organs capture. Conscious high track would be i saw a bird , unconsciously we see the colour, motion, form and depth. Parallel processing refers to building perceptions out of sensory details processed in different areas of the brain. Attentions shapes what we consciously perceive, it is a limited ability. Selective attention: what we focus on is what we notice. Selective inattention: refers to our failure to notice part of our environment when our attention is directed elsewhere. Subliminal: below our threshold for being able to consciously detect a stimulus, but still registered by the sensory organ. In certain conditions (e. g a lab without distractions) (i. e getting people to walk slower or faster, have them respond to stereotypes as if they were a different culture)