PSYCH 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scotoma, Preconscious, Visual Cortex
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Selective attention: we can focus our attention on one thing, while ignoring another. We can shift our attention (intentionally or not) Consciousness and attention: consciousness, directly concerned with awareness, includes both the feeling of awareness and the content of awareness, attention and consciousness partially overlap. Occurs when processing of a stimulus is facilitated by prior presentation of the same or a similar stimulus: demonstrated by faster reaction times, demonstrated by improved accuracy, tip-of-the-tongue (tot) phenomenon. When we try to remember something to be known to be stored in memory, but cannot quite be retrieved. We attempt to pull preconscious information into consciousness. Difficult to study: studying preconscious processing. The process by which a procedure changes from being highly conscious to relatively automatic. Automatization occurs as the result of practice. Practice effects tend to be non-linear: usually in a negative acceleration curve, examples:
