PSY 1101 Study Guide - Subitizing, Sensory Analysis, Lightdark

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: A L L

Document Summary

We perceive objects through our senses, with our mind. The process of perception occurs through selection, organization and interpretation of our senses. Selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect. Our senses take in 11,000,000 bits of information per second of which we process 40. At the level of our conscious awareness, our attention is divided. The process of switching attentional gears aps0nc0sts a bit of time, especially when shifting to complex tasks. Cervone: showed people a one-minute videotape in which the images of three men in black shirts tossing a basketball were superimposed over the images of three men in white shirts doing the same thing. Asked viewers to press a key when a black shirt player passed the ball. Woman passed through the screen and viewers failed to notice her. Inattentional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere: also called change blindness.