PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Sensory Memory, Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Attention direct self to some info at cost of less attention to other info: attention focus easily distract-able. 2 conversations simultaneously vs. driving and listening to music: multi-tasking possible, hinders overall performance. Visual attention is selective and serial: cocktail party phenomenon focus single conversation midst many. Partly b/c loudness & proximity also selective attention: shadowing listen to 2 conversation, only focus one & repeat it. Acknowledges other conversation, but no content knowledge. Unattended conversation may get through attention filter. Personally relevant information (name), loudness: parallel processing process information from diff. visual. Selective attention operate at multiple stages of processing features at same time by focusing on targets, ignoring distractors: filter theory ppl filter incoming info, let in only most important. Visual search tasks (feature search tasks) look for target, differ w/ distractors on one feature. Ex. a few red a"s (target) w/ many black a"s (distractors) B/c limited capacity for sensory info. disregards irrelevant info.