PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cocktail Party, Donald Broadbent, Visual Search
16 Nov 2017
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Arousal and emotional experience of flashbulb memories importance between attention and memory- remember what pay attention to and attention shaped by what you remember. William james- everyone knows what attention is - it is the taking possession by the mind in clear vivid form of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thoughts. Attentional processes guided by 2 competing needs: focusing limited mental resources on immediate task, monitoring ongoing stimuli to evaluate their potential significance and shifting the allocation of mental resources when necessary. Section 2: cocktail party effect(broadbent)-despite competing background. Succession long time identify - faster depicting if know which part change is in- benefit from bottom up capturing: mind wandering -make it more self relevant, Section 4: spotlight model: spotlight moved around stage following the action and features of spotlight model of spatial attention proposed by posner.
