PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stroop Effect, Attentional Blink, Visual Acuity
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It has been used synonymously with terms such as arousal, control, and consciousness. These are all clearly very different things. Selective attention: attending to relevant information and ignoring irrelevant information: e. g. , man"s face in coffee beans, shadowing: repeating an audio track. Dichotic listening task: different messages to each ear. Attended channel listen to this one. Unattended channel ignore this one: sometimes effects of attention are so strong that we fail to see stimuli that are directly in front of our eyes, cocktail party effect: Boost attended items and dampen unattended items. Attention capture: the division of attention by a stimulus so powerful that it compels us to notice it even when our attention is focused on something else. Inattentional blindness: failure to attend to events that we might be expected to notice. Unconscious perception can still occur in the absence of attention. Change blindness: inability to detect changes in scenes.
