PSYC 3580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stroop Effect, Saccade, Visual Search
Document Summary
Social cognitive neuroscience: a new discipline that uses neuroscience techniques to explore the kind of cognitive processes used in interactions with other people. Schema: generalized, well-integrated knowledge about a situation, event, or person; allow people to predict what will happen in a new situation; generally correct. Parallel processing: a type of cognitive processing in which persons perform see. Perception: the use of previous knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli registered by the senses; requires both bottom up and top down processing. Phonemic restoration: in speech perception, filling in a missing phoneme based on contextual meaning. Kinds of attention: divided, selective, saccadic movement, etc. Theories of attention: bottleneck theories, feature integration theory. Attention: concentration of mental activity, so that you can take in limited, but important stimuli/information. Divided attention: concentration on at least two sources of information at the same time. Selective attention: screening out or ignoring some stimuli in order to focus on other resources.
