PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Donald Broadbent, Anne Treisman, Stroop Effect
19 Mar 2016
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No t e b o o k: cognitive psych. Attention: focusing on specific features, objects, or locations or on certain thoughts or activities. Selective attention: the ability to focus on one message and ignore all others. Distraction: occurs when one stimulus interferes with attention to or the processing of another stimulus. Divided attention: the ability to pay attention to, or carry out, two or more different tasks simultaneously. Sustained attention: maintaining focus over long periods of time. Decoupled attention: internally directed cognition, such as thoughts and mind wandering. Attentional capture: a rapid shifting of attention, usually caused by a stimulus such as a loud noise, bright light, or sudden movement. Visual scanning: movement of the eyes from one location or object to another. Filter model of attention: donald broadbent"s model of attention that proposes a filter that lets attended stimuli through and blocks some or all of the unattended stimuli. The following are the four steps to this model:
