PSYC 11762 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Instructional Design, Automaticity, Cognitive Load

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 11762
• Professor: Robin L Joynes

Document Summary

Cit week 3: ability to focus on a task, ability to concentrate refers to the allocation of processing resources (anderson, 1995) (assumes limited resources) Different aspects of attention: selective attention, divided attention, automaticity. Selective attention: difficult to attend to more than that one thing at the same time, trying to attend to one task over another requires selective attention. Visual: stroop task tests this, slower to name a color when a word says a different color that it is colored. Automatic process of reading interferes with our ability to selectively attend to the ink color. Auditory: dichotic listening (cherry, 1953; moray, 1959) When the subject hears two messages simultaneouslyone message in one ear and one message in the other. They are asked to "shadow" one of the messages (i. e. repeat back the words from one message only); most subjects can do this: very little of the unattended message is processed. It is difficult to attend to 2 things at once.