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| selection of stimuli for detailed processing |
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| Evidence for selective attention |
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1) cocktail party phenomeon
2) figure-ground phenomenon |
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| Controlled Processing vs. Automatic Processing |
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Controlled: accessible to conscious control and requires it, performed serially and take a long time to execute
Automatic: no conscious control, demand little effort or intention, performed as parallel processes and relatively fast |
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It takes time to switch attention.
In experimental tests, it has been found that for a short time after paying attention to a cue stimulus, observers are not able to reliably report on subsequent targets. |
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w/o attention we are often blind to changes in our visual field.
Grand Illusion- fooled by belief that we can see many items in our field of view simultaneously |
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| physically simultaneous events do not appear to occur at the same time because perception takes time and we are only able to attend to one object at a time. |
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Schizophrenia
parkinson's disease
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