Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ATTENTION & PERCEPTION
- SECTION 2 - NATURE OF ATTENTION
- PHENOMENON OF CONSCIOUS ATTENTION
- EDGAR
- EMPHASISES THE SELECTION AND ALLOCATION OF COGNITIVE RESOURCES IN HIS DEFINITION
- REFERENCES TO SIMONS AND LEVIN - CHANGE BLINDNESS
- SUGGESTS LINKS WITH SOCIAL IDENTITY AS WELL AS PERCEPTION ITSELF
- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCH = WHY DO WE TAKE IN SO LITTLE?
- ALLOCATION OF ATTENTIONAL RESOURCES
- KAHNEMAN
- SUGGESTED NETWORK OF BRAIN CELLS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANALYSING INCOMING INFORMATION
- ALREADY HELD WITHIN THE LIMITED CENTRAL CAPACITY PROCESSOR
- CAPACITY OF PROCESSOR = VARIABLE ACCORDING TO AROUSAL THAT BRAIN EXPERIENCES
- HIGH AROUSAL = PROCESSOR IS FUNCTIONING AT MAXIMUM
- LOW AROUSAL = MORE RESTRICTED - CHANGE BLINDNESS
- IN CONTRAST
- MCLEOD
- &
- MULTIPLE RESOURCES THEORIES GREW FROM MCLEOD
- IN RESPONSE TO CENTRAL PROCESSOR THEORIES
- POSNER AND BOIES
- DUAL TASK STUDIES
- BRAIN DOES NOT HAVE ONE CENTRAL PROCESSOR
- BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN ATTEND TO MORE THAN ONE ATTENTIONAL TASK AT A TIME
- AS LONG AS TASKS ARE FROM DIFFERENT MODALITIES
- MODALITIES NOT ESTABLISHED CLEARLY THOUGH
- IS NOT CLEAR IF ATTENTION IS REGULATED BY - CENTRAL PROCESSOR + MODALITY-SPECIFIC PROCESSORS
- OR
- IF THEY ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE
- COMPLEMENTARY OR CONFLICTING??
- ATTENTIONAL SPOTLIGHT
- USING CENTRAL PROCESSOR MODEL
- SECTION 1 - CLARIFICATION/DEFINITION
- ATTENTION = PROCESS OF SELECTION
- NON SELECTED INFO IS NOT ATTENDED TO
- UNCONSCIOUS PERCEPTION
- TRIESMAN
- ATTENTION SWITCHING / COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT
- WHEN OUR NAME IS CALLED AT A PARTY BY SOMEONE YOU WERE NOT FOCUSING ON AND YOU HEAR IT.
- SCHNEIDER & SHIFFRIN
- DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTROLLED & AUTOMATIC PROCESSES
- AUTOMATIC PROCESSES = MAKE NO DEMANDS ON ATTENTIONAL RESOURCES, DO NOT DRAW ON ATTENTIONAL CAPACITY
- OR PROCESSING RESOURCES - HAPPEN WITHOUT CONSCIOUS AWARENESS
- UNCONSCIOUS PERCEPTIONS DO NOT SEEM TO REQUIRE ATTENTION
- SOME OF INFO NOT SELECTED FOR ATTENTION IS PROCESSED OUTSIDE CONSCIOUS AWARENESS
- MUCH OF PROCESSING THAT TAKES PLACE DURING CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION ALSO HAPPENS OUT OF CONSCIOUS PERCEPTION
- MEMORY PROCESSES
- EDGAR
- EPISODIC
- SPECIFIC EVENTS
- HIPPOCAMPUS
- SEMANTIC
- GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
- TEMPORAL CORTEX
- SELECTION PROCESS THAT OPERATES BETWEEN WHAT IS SENSED & PERCIEVED
- SENSATION -----> ATTENTION ----->PERCEPTION
- ESSENTIAL PROCESS WHAT WE SENSE & PERCEIVE
- 2 KINDS - CONSCIOUS - (INVOLVES ATTENTION)
- UNCONSCIOUS - (DOES NOT INVOLVE ATTENTION)
- FOR EXTRA MARKS IN EXAM LINK BETWEEN DIFFERENT TOPIC AREAS
- ONE CONSTANT = ATTENTIONAL PROCESSES ARE LIMITED IN CAPACITIES
- SOME SENSORY INPUT GOES UNATTENDED
- SELECTION OCCURS BY -
- BROADBENT
- IT OCCURS AT EARLY STAGE OF PROCESSING
- ON BASIS OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INPUT
- SPLIT LIFESPAN EXPERIMENT
- TRIESMAN
- ATTENTION WOULD BE SWITCHED FROM CURRENT FOCUS
- TO DIFFERENT ONE IF SECOND FOCUS IS MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFICANT TO THE PERSON
- IE INFORMATION THAT WAS NOT BEING CONSCIOUSLY ATTENDED TO CAN ATTRACT OUR ATTENTION =
- AT SOME LEVEL IS BEING ATTENDED TO
- POSSIBILITY OF UNCONSCIOUS ATTENTION
- EXTENDED DUE TO TRIESMAN
- SCHENIDER & SHRIFFIN
- DISTINCTION BETWEEN CONTROLLED (VOLUNTARY) & AUTOMATIC PROCESSES.
- AUTOMATIC PROCESSES = ECONOMICAL FOR COGNITIVE RESOURSES
- CAN BE HINDERANCE - IF TASK REQUIRES US TO INHIBIT/NULLIFY EFFECTS
- EG - STROOP EFFECT
- EG = FLANKER COMPATIBILITY EFFECT - LAVIE
- SACKS
- GATHERING SENSORY INFO & LINKING IT TO STORED KNOWLEDGE
- ARE SEPERATE PROCESSES
- LINKING SENSORY INFO + STORED KNOWLEDGE = NON ATTENTIONAL PROCESS
- & BOTH GATHERING & LINKING ARE ESSENTIAL FOR PERCEPTION