01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Satisficing, Problem Solving, Lead Poisoning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

How are visual objects stored in memory. In some sort of pictorial (analog) form. In some sort of propositional (more verbal) form. Decision time (same/different object) is a function of number of degrees of rotation. If representational, relations are true regardless of amount of. The tendency to respond to and remember some stimuli more than others. The perceptual system is biased to give an enhanced response to a novel input. A novel input will pop out from among familiar ones and attract attention. For example, a reverse n pops out from among n"s. Early selection is based on perceptual organization. If we are looking for something that isn"t organized by low-level perceptual processing, we must use late selection. In order to respond to a stimulus, we must attend to it. We have a limited amount of attention. When we have competed responses, it can be difficult to channel attention to the desired/appropriate one.