PSYCH 1X03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Grocery Store, Operational Definition, Empirical Measure
19 Jan 2019
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William james: attention covers a seemingly wide range of topics, psychologists have found it challenging to put forth a single all encompassing operational definition, william james defined it. Selection: selection: the act of attending to an object to select it apart from the unattended objects, ex. First putting on clothes, you can feel you it, but not as the day goes on: some stimuli in the environment can trigger your attention in an automatic fashion, ex. A light flashing in periphery: attention is an active process, we attend to the information that is relevant to our goals (ex. Grocery store looking for a can of food) Irrelevant information in the environment acts as noise that can make it difficult to identify and attend to important information: when irrelevant information overwhelms us, we get distracted. Introduction: automatic and controlled processes influence attention in different ways, automatic processes.
