Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psychological Refractory Period, Interstimulus Interval, Mental Chronometry

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Caitlin Gillen

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Stimulus 1: press the button with right index as fast as you can. Stimulus 2: press the button with left index as fast as you can. If these 2 stimulus are placed close enough together, you can produce an increase in reaction time to the second stimulus. Reaction time for stimulus 1 remains ineffective. Reaction time increases about 100 ms for stimulus 2 a delay in responding to stimulus 2. This delay is because the information processing is serial and discrete. Psychological refractory period: delay in responding to the second of 2 stimuli presented in rapid succession. Blue arrow ball curving to the right. Red line bottleneck preventing multiple stimuli from being processed. Green arrow ball curving to the left goalie sees ball and wants to start moving there but cant. Goalie gets placed into a psychological refractory period starts to move to the right (selects a.