PSYCH 2H03 Lecture : attention.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2H03
• Professor: Judith Shedden

Document Summary

Do you sometimes look but not see . We experience our visual world as stable (same object, same appearance, same location), despite constant changes in the visual input. Experimenter 1 stopped a pedestrian on the quad (cornell), to ask for directions two people carrying a door walked through the conversation. Experimenter 1 changed places with one of the door carriers (experimenter results: When told this is a psychology experiment about the things people pay attention to in the real world. Only half the people noticed the change. They did not notice the person asking directions had switched conclusion: We do not store very detailed visual representations of much of what we perceive. Attention is critical: to see we must attend. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence.