PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rush Hour, Handsfree, French Fries
10 May 2016
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Video clips of people walking, and comparing your snippets of walking to other people walking. Even though they couldn"t see what video was there"s, they could recognize via brain waves. Couldn"t recognize consciously, but signals in brain told them which video was them walking. Brain could remember what they actually did vs. consciousness. Attention, and our casting a window, we focus on certain important things: lecture. Can shift brain to different thoughts (big toe, elbow) you have access to all of these things, but you weren"t thinking about it. Attention is a specific window on what is available: the monkey business allusion. 16 passes, but did you see the gorilla. Studying infants, above a crib would be two tv"s. Which monitor they would be focused on, two different displays. Three factors: individuals pay attention to unique things vs. redundant, complex images vs. simple images or impossibly complex ones, emotion or change.
