PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ex-Gay Movement, Implicit Memory, Prospective Memory
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Attention and memory, part i: In order for something to potentially be remembered, it must be attended to in the first place. It has to be selective because it is limited. We don"t know all the details about our watch when we look at it, because we don"t need to. Our mind doesn"t encode it because we don"t want to know anything about our watch but the time on it. The same goes for a 20 dollar bill. This is something we"ve seen a million times, but we don"t encode what we see on it. We just know we can exchange it for stuff. Change blindness: the common failure for people to notice large changes in their environment. These involve targets and distractors. Searching for one feature is fast and automatic (parallel processing). It doesn"t matter how many distractors we have if we"re looking for one thing. The target"s going to pop out at us.
