PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nucleus Accumbens, Caffeine, Basal Ganglia
2 May 2017
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The process by which the mind chooses among the thousands of stimuli, allowing only some of these stimuli to be passed along for further information. The cocktail- party effect: tuning in one message while filtering out others nearby. Inattentional blindness: failure to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere. Change blindness: a failure to notice large changes in the environment, when there is no sudden transient in the image to draw our attention to the change. Don"t fully process all of the details. We can automatically identify certain basic features in the environment. However, putting together features of an object to form a complete percept requires attention. Conscious attention and effort are necessary when learning a new task but many tasks can become automated after extensive practice. Information processed on both conscious and unconscious levels. Unconscious parallel processing: automatic pilot taking care of routine business. Serial conscious processing: solving problems with focused attention.
