PSY 3377 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Cortex, Perseveration, Iconic Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3377
• Professor: Sylvain Gagnon

Document Summary

Selective attention- attending to one thing while ignoring others. Distraction- one stimulus interfering with the processing of another. Divided attention- paying attention to more than one thing at a time. Attentional capture- a rapid shifting of attention (usually caused by a stimulus such as a loud noise). Visual scanning- movement of eyes from one object or location to another. Broadbent"s filter model of attention dichotic listening , where dichotic refers to presenting different stimuli to the left and right ears. This procedure of repeating what you are hearing is called shadowing. Other dichotic listening experiments confirmed that subjects are not aware of most of the information being presented to the unattended ear. All of the other messages are filtered out: the detector processes the information from the attended message to determine higher-level characteristics of the message, such as its meaning.