Psychology 2115A/B Lecture : Unit 4 Complete

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2115A/B
• Professor: Stephen Lupker

Document Summary

Late 1950s behaviorists started losing control of things. Suggested attention was a process by which we pick out something in the environment and bring information forward, letting everything else fall in the background. Behaviorist took over and were telling psychologist how to think about how behavior worked; no time on attention. Attention was all-or-none to james; started to think of it as a capacity thing. If we want to attend to two, take capacity and put some of it over there. Using up capacity, the ability to process anything else correctly goes down. Automatic processes: don"t need much attention capacity to complete. Put # into short term memory, if you don"t attend to it it"s done. Situations where lots of people are talking together; lot of auditory stimulation. We have the ability to tune out most if not all of it except what you want to listen to. Not picking out your name in a crowd when at a party.