PSYCH306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Test Probe, Attentional Shift, Mental Chronometry
28 Nov 2015
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Attention (family of mechanisms that restrict or bias processing in various ways) To deal with the impossibility of handling all inputs at once. External attention (attention to stimuli in the world) Internal attention (ability to attend to one line of thought as opposed to another or to select one response over another) Overt attention (directing a sense organ at a stimulus) Covert attention (if you point your eyes at this page while directing attention. I. e. fixating the eyes on a single world to a person of interest off to the left) Divided attention (reading this text while continuing to be aware of music. Sustained attention (watching the pot to note the moment the water begins playing in the room) to boil) Selective attention (the ability to pick one/or few out of many stimuli) Can use attentional mechanisms to give priority to one sense over others.
