KP181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Red Dot, Inattentional Blindness
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Lecture 13 attention and concentration (chapter 7) The process of concentrating on specific features of the environment or on certain thoughts or activities . A multidimensional construct : concentration deliberate effort when important, it is a limited resource (you only have so much capacity, it often requires us to be selective of what we"re attending to. It"s a limited resource attentional capacity: when learning something new, we draw on a lot of controlled processing, automatic processing when you don"t need to be deliberately thinking about everything you"re doing, you"re on autopilot. Attentional selectivity: we need to be really good at letting in only the relevant information, and ignoring irrelevant information, errors can occur if we let in the irrelevant stuff. Width: how wide is our attentional span, broad lots of cues, narrow focus on 1 or 2 main cues. Direction: internal your thoughts, your emotions, your strategies, external events outside of you in the environment.