PSYC 336 Lecture 5: 5.5 - Paying Attention V

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Produced by the presentation of the priming stimulus. We can prime one detector without taking anything away from other detectors. Created only when the participant believes the prime allows a prediction of what"s to come. With high-validity primes, responses in the misled condition are slower than the neutral condition responses. Priming the wrong detector takes something away from the other detectors. Participants are worse off when they"re misled than when they receive no prime at all. Getting prepared for one target makes people less prepared for other targets. Limited-capacity system a group of resources in which mental resources are limited so that extra resources supplied to one process must be balanced by a withdrawal of resources somewhere else. Mental resources some process or capacity needed for performance, but in limited supply. Posner and snyder study expectations about an upcoming stimulus can influence the processing of that stimulus.