FRHD 2060 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mental Chronometry, Information Processing, Social Cognition

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Nicole Nivillac

Document Summary

The amount of information that can be processed at a time. Processing of a specific and well trained stimulus (such as a target letter) that automatically captures attention. The time it takes to make separate responses to separate stimuli. Which entails making many decisions about how and when to respond. The ability to pay attention and successfully more than one task at a time. The study of how people interact with machines and other objects in their environment. The study of how people take in stimuli from their environment and transform them into memories. The ability to attend to the positions of multiple target items as they move. The amount of attention one has to apply to a particular situation. The speed at which one makes a response. The way in which we choose the information we will process further. The earliest step in information processing in which new, incoming information is first registered.