Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Distracted Driving, Hemispatial Neglect, Inattentional Blindness

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

Late=full processing of distractor, but may not reach consciousness. Failure to notice changes between what was in view moments before and what is in view now. Mistaken belief that we should notice the changes. Failure to notice a fully-visible, but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object. Observers fail to notice a visual object or event. The object or event is fully-visible and observers readily see it if they are looking for it. The failure to notice results from engagement of attention on other aspects of the display and not from aspects of the visual stimulus itself. Multi-tasking-one can perform concurrent tasks only if the sum of the tasks" demands is within the cognitive budget. Capture error-happens when your attention is pulled elsewhere, rather than maintaining current goal interference from habit kicks in (go to your usual place instead) As a task becomes practiced it requires fewer resources.