PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Webct, Cognitive Psychology, Mental Event

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

Document Summary

Determines what makes it into the working memory. Attention: the mental process of concentrating effort on a stimulus or mental event; the limited mental energy or resource that powers the mental system. As the process, also what you have, dividing your attention= put some resources in one task and some resource in another. Cognitive task: an experimentally constructed situation for studying a particular small set of cognitive skills or activities. Posner & snyder (1975) as an illustration of priming. Now a leading researcher in the new field of cognitive neuroscience. Our attention like a spotlight, we move the flashlight to different things we want to focus on. Attention and your eyes are different things, Often times attention precedes moving your eye, they are in sync. Overt oriented- moving attention in sync with your eyes. Covert oriented- moving attention independently of eyes: sudden changes in the environment captures our attention (camera light)