PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sensory Memory, Vise, Stroop Effect
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Describe key dimensions of attention and it"s relationship with consciousness: attention and consciousness are linked. Introduce concept of input and controlled attention to describe the major functions of attention. Summarize findings related to automatic and controlled processing. Participate in class experiment for participation credit: attention, conscious vs. unconscious processing: most of the time, when we engage in unconscious, bottom-up vs. top-down processing: this relates to what controls attention. We have the option processing, we require attention. of deciding what we pay attention to: serial vs. Parallel processing: talking about controlled and automatic processes. We can experience this when something is completely visible. This is the case when there is a problem with attention. Experiment: up to half of the participants missed the change of the person they were talking to. It has to do what you are paying attention to.
