PS 233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ellen G. White Bibliography, Distracted Driving, Mental Event
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Mental process of continuing a concentrating effort on a stimulus or mental event to the decriment of other stimuli or events. A process of discrimination choosing one thing over another. By attending to one thing not attending to the other things. You can decide what to attend, what to spend that mental fuel on (this is imperative given its limited capacity) Attention as mental fuel only so much to appropriate at a given time. Presentation of different stimulus to each ear. Then shadow" (repeat back) what they heard. In general, found that very little is processed in the unattended message. So, they can tell whether the to be ignored message was speech or not, whether it was male or female voice. But they cannot tell what language was spoken or remember any of the words spoken. Other information has to be processed to some degree.
