PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Word Stem, Psychological Refractory Period, Ex-Gay Movement
26 Jan 2014
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The basic capacity to respond to the environment: tonic changes gradual change in states of alertness and arousal and may last for relatively long periods of time. Reflexive in response to sudden changes in the environment (bottom-up) Voluntarily in response to our own intentions (top-down: orienting reflex/ orienting response the reflexive redirection of attention that orients you toward the unexpected stimulus (overt vs covert) Benefit the advantage in processing a target stimulus relative to a neutral condition, that can be attributed to the processing f another, usually congruent stimulus. Cost the disadvantage in processing a target stimulus, relative to a neutral condition, that can be attributed to the processing of another, usually incongruent, stimulus. Spotlight attention covert focusing of attention that prepares you to encode stimulus information. May operate to help make visual search more efficient automatic and occurs in parallel. Disjuction condition the search for a simple feature. Conjunction condition search for the combination of two features (longer rt)
