PSYC 3260- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Casperde Boer

Document Summary

Attention: the ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations in our environment. Selective attention: attending to one thing while ignoring other stimuli. Divided attention: paying attention to more than one thing at a time. Attended message and unattended message in either ear. Early/intermediate selection models: broadbent(cid:495)s filter model (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:887)(cid:890)(cid:524) & Multiple messages -> sensory memory, multiple messages -> filter, attended. Gray & wedderburn (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:882)(cid:524): (cid:494)dear aunt jane(cid:495) experiment. The attenuator then differentiates the attended message from the unattended messages and sends them to the dictionary unit. The dictionary unit then sends the message to our memory. Our dictionary unit stores words and associates thresholds with them. When those thresholds are met, we attend to them. Ex; our names have a lower threshold than the word rutabaga. Mckay (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:889)(cid:885)(cid:524): (cid:494)bank(cid:495) experiment (cid:498)) took a trip to the bank today(cid:499) in the attended ear (cid:498)money, atm, etc. , or river, water, etc. )