PSY100H1 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - Attention and memory.pdf
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The nervous system capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. A way to process information from different visual features at the same time by focusing on targets over distractors. It allows us to take attention to the most primitive objects first (a colour that stands out, for example) Attention is limited, and it is hard to perform two tasks at the same time, especially if they rely on the same mechanisms. You need to stop talking and singing and direct your attention to the task of driving, which suddenly becomes more difficult and requires your utmost attention. You are in a midst of stimulus, and suddenly you can be aware of a stimulus that is related to you/interests you. Participants wears headphones that deliver one message to one ear and a different message to the other. The person is asked to attend to one of the two messages and shadow it by repeating it aloud.
