PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stroop Effect, Eyewitness Memory, Mind-Wandering

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 260
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Finding an object that differs from all others by a single feature is fast & error-free and occurs in parallel (independent of how many nontargets there are) Finding an object that differs from all others only by a conjunction of features is slow & error-prone and occurs serially (slower with more nontargets in the scene). Attention is needed to bind features together into objects. After a glimpse, people briefly retain a total of about 4 features of an object. People can also retain the identity of about 4 objects for a short time. As long as there are no more than 4 properties per object, people can retain up to all 4 properties of all 4 objects. If you"re sear(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g a stati(cid:272) e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)e. g. for your keys(cid:895) a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) reje(cid:272)t a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t as (cid:374)ot (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g the o(cid:374)e you"re looking for, your attention is prevented from returning to that same rejected object for 500-3000 msec.