PSY270H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Phoneme, Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: David Chan

Document Summary

Covert: physical sense organ is focused on one thing, and attentional system is elsewhere, exogenous: symbol or object moves your attention based on it"s meaning. Overt: symbol or object moves your attention based on it"s meaning, Exogenous: physical sense organ is focused on one thing, and attentional system is elsewhere. Covert: physical sense organ is focused on one thing, and attentional system is elsewhere, endogenous: symbol or object moves your attention based on it"s meaning. Overt: physical sense organs match where your attention is, endogenous: something in the periphery captures your attention. A study by riby & hancock revealed a lot about autism using visual tracking and movies, and their results are still often used by physicians in diagnosing autism at an early age. People on the autism spectrum look more at objects in the background than at people. People on the autism spectrum have universally longer fixations, no matter what they"re viewing.