PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dete, Change Blindness, John Bowlby

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Because of narrative"s role in mindsight development. Colour perception and two theories of colour perception: the trichromatic theory and the opponent processing theory. Both are needed in order to explain colour vision. There are two types of cues for depth perception. The very first experimental theory of attention was directed at the selection problem. Broadbent argued that attention was the cognitive process that performed this selection process. For broadbent attention acts like a filter that screens out irrelevant information so that the organism can devoted its limited processing resources to what is relevant to it. Selective attention is attending to relevant information and ignoring irrelevant information. Participants are exposed to two verbal messages simultaneously and are required to answer questions posed in only one of the messages. Participants are good at answering the question if they know which of two voices contain the question, but very poor when they do not know.