PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, The Cocktail Party, Hemispatial Neglect

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

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Selective attention (143: william james, everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought (attention) in that quote, he is describing what attention achieves*** If participants were warned though and therefore alert to possible changes, then virtually all participants detected the change: a fixation target fixated their eyes at a mark in the center (the dot) If a change involves something central to the scene, observers may need as many as a dozen alterations between the pictures before they detect the change. Selective priming (152: you can literally prepare yourself for perceiving by priming the relevant detectors. Instead the detectors for your name are primed simply because this is a stimulus you"ve often encountered in the past: the activation level of these detectors is already high.