PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Donald Broadbent, Daniel Kahneman, Sight-Reading
10 Feb 2013
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The lawyer is smoking a cigar and the ash is getting longer and longer, burning his million dollar suit jury too distracted by this to listen to the prosecutor"s closing argument defendant was found not guilty! For many days and got better at it (practice effect) the previous models don"t explain practice effect . Doing 2 things at once tends to be challenging (ex. Esp. if you really need to focus on one or the other (ex. Selective attention (focusing on one stimulus & blocking out the other ones) vs. divided attention (focused on more than one stimulus/task) Overlapping videos: when monitoring both hand slapping and ball passing, accuracy dropped. Doing two things at the same time when one captures our attention. Potential distraction by background music not as great when there are no lyric (aka: no lyric. Similar effect if lyrics are of unfamiliar language.
