PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Short-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
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Memory the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Attention is selective because it is limited and attention is adaptive. Parallel processing searching for one feature is fast and automatic; effectively blocking out other features. Serial processing searching for two (or more) features is slow and effortful; you must examine a target one by one. Proximity and loudness influence what you attend to but selective attention determine which conversations you hear. Shadowing - when a person listens to two different messages at once and only attends to one of the messages by repeating it out loud. There"s no conscious knowledge about the other message. Filter theory people have a limited capacity for sensory information; screens incoming information *pays attention to the most important info. Change blindness common failure to notice large changes in environment. Study: participants giving directions to an individual is momentarily blocked with a large object.
