PSYC 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Long Term Ecological Research Network, Speech Shadowing, Press Brake

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 365
• Professor: Glen Bodner

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Attention as an information filter attention works to lter out irrelevant stimuli in the environment so that we only pay attention to the aspects of the environment left in our consciousness. Broadbent (1958) attention is limited by the amount of info we can focus on at a time. Of subjects detect name in non-attended message salient info can get through lter. Attention as a spotlight spotlight of our consciousness that is focused on some aspect of the environment that currently has our attention moves around intentionally or automatically. Faberge (figure 4. 4 and 4. 5) shifts of attention affect the speed with which a task is performed. Results ( gure 4. 6) radio groups: driving performance did not change from single to dual-task cell phone groups: missed more red lights and slower rt. Attention as a feature binder the feature-integration theory of attention (treisman) separate stages of processing contribute to focused attention.