PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Peripheral Vision, Eye Movement, Richard Shiffrin
6 Feb 2017
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The ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations. One stimulus interfering with the processing of another stimulus. Paying attention to more than one thing at a time. A rapid shifting of attention usually caused by a stimulus such as a loud noise bright light, or sudden movement. Movements of the eyes from one location or object to another. In the late 1800s & early 1900s, research attempted to study the mind by introspection. Yield results that varied from person to person. Technology developed in wwii - humans were bombarded with info. Questions, posed by technology, were studied by researchers who made use of a new technological development - the tape recorder - to run experiments that tested people"s ability to take in info under different conditions. Filter model of attention: model of attention that proposes a filter that lets attended stimuli through & blocks some or all of the unattended stimuli.
