PSY 102 Midterm: psy post midterm 1

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Zahra Vahedi

Document Summary

The role of attention: selective attention: process of selecting one sensory channel and ignoring or minimizing others, cocktail party effect: out of stimuli that is outside of our immediate attention. Inattentional blindness: failure to detect stimuli that are in plain sight when our attention is focused elsewhere. Ie: bear moonwalking vs white t-shirt throws videos: similar instances, texting and driving or walking, magic tricks- manipulate attention elsewhere for magic trick. The visual system: anatomy: eyes are the window to the retina. Trichromatic theory: idea that colour vision is based on our sensitivity to 3 primary colours: red, blue and green (not yellow: based on the fact that we have 3 dif kinds of cones, each of which are sensitive. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=2k8fhr9jkvm.