PSYC 3580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stroop Effect, Visual Search, Saccade

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3580
• Professor: Anne Baird

Document Summary

Social cognitive neuroscience: new discipline that uses neuroscience techniques to explore the kind of cognitive processes used in interactions with other people. Generalized, well-integrated knowledge about a situation, an event, or a person. A schema allows people to predict what will happen in a new situation. Theories of attention: bottleneck theories, feature-integration theory. Driving: routinely requires processing of more than one type of information at the same time. Involves divided attention, selective attention, other top-down processes, bottom-up process are important to driving as this website shows. Driving ability must be assessed by a task that requires these parallel processing under demanding conditions: the three- part useful field of view test. Useful field of view: area which one can extract visual information in a brief glance without head or eye movement. Limits of this area are reduced by poor vision, difficulty dividing attention, ignoring distraction, and slower processing ability.