PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Cocktail Party, Cocktail Party, Inattentional Blindness
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From the inside: william james: it is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. It implies withdrawal from some things to deal effectively with others. From the outside: a wide range of phenomena in which an identical stimulus is processed in different ways. The cocktail party effect: you can pick out certain conversations to take part of in a busy world. People don"t know how much they need it! We have the impression of a complete representation of the visual world at all times. We only see our own conversation and what we explicitly attend to, like a cocktail party. Inattentional blindness : when we attend to one thing, we often miss other things. People"s intuitions about this are very wrong. We all believe we see everything, especially unexpected things.
