PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gyrus, Visual Search, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 201
• Professor: Paul Dassonville

Document Summary

Consciousness: moment-by-moment subjective experience resulting from at least some aspects of brain activity. Imagery of some event that could occur. Attention: manner in which brain manages its limited information processing capacities. In order to optimally perform a task, through ability to increase awareness of a subset of stimuli at cost of other. Selective listening experiments: participant receives different auditory messages in one year, but is required to repeat only 1. Cannot report the content of the unattended input. Can report change of pitch or disappearance of unattended input. Overt attention: directing attention by moving the eyes. Covert attention: directing attention without moving eyes or head or body. 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. Change blindness demonstrates that we don"t fully process all of the rich details in scenes we experience.