FRHD 2060 Chapter Notes -Spondee, Rush Hour, Change Blindness
21 Feb 2013
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Poses three fundamental for adult development and aging: But, if we don"t pay attention to this info very quickly, the representation is lost. Age differences in the sensory memory aren"t common. Attention involves at least 3 interdependent processes: selective attention, divided attention, sustained attention. Selective attention: the way in which we choose the info we will process further. Some info just processed automatically, other info takes effort. We are more likely to process novel or unexpected info than info that we have encountered many times before. Small proportion of info in sensory memory is selected for further processing. Most do so by creating tasks in which multiple sources of info are available for process- ing, but only a subset of the info is relevant to the primary task, other info is distractors. Performance on task without distractors is compared to performance with distractors.
