PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Headphones, Searchlight, Daniel Kahneman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

The stimulus you"re attending to only one of many available to you. This fact invites two crucial observations: seems clear you could choose to pay attention to any of the just mentioned, if you did, would be virtually oblivious to other things on list. Indeed, until you read previous paragraph, probably oblivious to other stimuli mentioned! How do you do this:" how dose one manage to avoid distractors and focus attention in just the manner one wishes, selecting only one input of many:" 2) seems to be one thing cannot do: you cannot pay attention to all things at once. If start musing about the weekend, likely to lose track of what"s on the page; If start planning term paper, won"t finish reading assignment. Of course possible in ome circumstances to divide attention, deal with two different inputs at once.