PSY100Y5 Final: Study Notes.doc
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PSY100Y5 Full Course Notes
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Involves forming a memory code, emphasizing how it looks, sounds, what it means and requires attention. Analogy: saving data in file or on hard disk. Analogy: calling up files and displaying data on monitor. Need to pay attention to the things you want to remember. Attention: focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Attention is linked to a filter that screens out the most potential stimuli while allowing a select few to pass through. It is unknown where this filter is located and if it filters out stimuli early, during sensory input or late after the brain has processed the meaning and the significance of it. Cocktail party phenomenon says that attention involves late selection, based on meaning of the input but both positions have ample amount of evidence supporting them. This led sci to think that the location of the attention filter is fixable not fixed.
