PSYC 330- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

==when we pay attention to 1 thing, attention is withdrawn from other things aka selective attention. Attention is an umbrella term, hard to define because there are lots of ways to define it! Understood attention as a filter (this is a metaphor) Wanted to see how well we could pay attention to people speaking to us. Realized (cid:449)e a(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t good at liste(cid:374)i(cid:374)g to (cid:373)o(cid:396)e tha(cid:374) (cid:1005) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) speaki(cid:374)g at a ti(cid:373)e. We filter out everything else minus one person we are listening to. We have a limited amount of it at any given time, and use the resources differently in order to do things. This metaphor is more appropriate when describing different kinds of research. Research on divided attention (do we have enough cognitive resources available to us) Do we have enough resources available to us to do many things at once (multitask) Th(cid:396)ough p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed as (cid:373)a(cid:374)y (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es to do a thi(cid:374)g.