PSY 322 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Colin Cherry, Raw Image Format, Short-Term Memory
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Ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations in our environment. We do not attend to a large fraction of information in the environment: we filter out information and promote other information for further processing. Selective: attending to one thing while ignoring others. Divided: paying attention to more than one thing at a time. Trying to attend to everything at once is more than the cognitive processes can handle. Attention = concentration of mental activity: withdrawal from some things in order to deal with others. Dichotic listening | colin cherry | one message is presented to the l and another to the r. Participant shadows one message to ensure he is attending to that message. Participants could not report the content of the message in unattended ear: knew that there was a message and gender suggests some processing is occurring in unattended ear. Overall, selective attention depends on the task and the type of stimuli presented.
