PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Optic Chiasm, Slow-Wave Sleep

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Processing of on task effects performance on another task. Serial processing: processing of a secondary task cannot begin until the first task is completed. No effort; no utility of processing resources . Task can become automatic with practice. (i. e. : reading, riding a bike, writing, typing, etc. ) Several tasks can be carried out simultaneously. Myers: dual processing, 2-track mind (i. e. : walking and talking at the same time) Parallel processing: more than one task can be carried out simultaneously (apparent) multitasking. Appears to be doing more than one task at one. If the observer attempts true multitasking, there will be a cost. Solution: attention is paid to a single task and then quickly switched to another. Performance on all tasks deteriorates because an insufficient number of resources is placed on each task. Processing of an automatic task interferes (or conflicts) with the processing in another task.