PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stroop Effect, Visual Search, Unit

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1X03
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Automatic selection: attention auto drawn to something (flashing light) Problems of selection: filtering out irrelevant info (background) Salient info: pops out / hard to miss (sirens) Difficult to attend to many things (all demanding for attention) Only focus on one part of environment at one time. Focus on middle screen automatic light draws attention to one side even when asked to look @ other side. Meaning: target destination is faster with subtle (unnoticed) cue. Spotlight spotting a single flow in the grass. Attention filter selects important info and tunes out other. Experiment: message in 2 ears have to concentrate / recall only one (shadowing the other) Wrights shock experiment: ppl able to recall info heard in the unattended ear. Crowd noise = able to focus on own convo able to detect when releveant info breaks through (name) caputures attention. Filter 1: physical: evaluate based on pitch, intensity, to find most relevant info.