PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Eye Tracking, Donald Broadbent, Change Blindness
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Attention: the ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations. Selective attention: the focusing of attention on one specific location, object, or message. There are other types of attention as well covert attention, which occurs when attention is shifted without moving the eyes, commonly referred to as seeing something out of the corner of the eye . Divided attention: attending to two or more things at once; can be overt, covert, or a combination of the two. According to william james, we focus on some things to the exclusion of others. Selective attention also keeps us from perceiving whatever isn t being attended. This idea is generally correct, but it needed to be revised to account for the fact that some unattended info is sometimes perceived. Many of the early experiments involved the idea of a filter that acted on incoming info, keeping some info out and some info in for further processing (used mainly auditory stimuli).
