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Cognitive Psychology: The Nature of Attention and Consciousness II

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This deck covers key concepts in cognitive psychology related to attention and consciousness, including habituation, automatization, and the Stroop effect.

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Habituation involves …

… our becoming accustomed to a stimulus so that we gradually pay less and less attention to it.

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Definition
Habituation involves …
… our becoming accustomed to a stimulus so that we gradually pay less and less attention to it.
In dishabituation …
… a change in a familiar stimulus prompts us to start noticing the stimulus again.
Two factors influencing habituation:
• internal variation within the stimulus • subjective arousal
Habituation is not the same as sensory …
… adaptation.
What kind of processes can occur in parallal and are also called parallel processes?
automatic processes
controlled processes need to be performed …
… serially.

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Cognitive Psychology: The Nature of Attention and Consciousness II
TermDefinition
Habituation involves …
… our becoming accustomed to a stimulus so that we gradually pay less and less attention to it.
In dishabituation …
… a change in a familiar stimulus prompts us to start noticing the stimulus again.
Two factors influencing habituation:
• internal variation within the stimulus • subjective arousal
Habituation is not the same as sensory …
… adaptation.
What kind of processes can occur in parallal and are also called parallel processes?
automatic processes
controlled processes need to be performed …
… serially.
Process by which controlled processes become automatic processes?
automatization aka. proceduralization
A widely accepted view of automatization holds that …
… we gradually combine individual effortful steps into integrated components until the whole process is only one operation.
Stroop effect?
WHITE or TWO TWO TWO
Mistakes vs. slips:
Mistakes involve errors in internal controlled processes. Slips often involve errors in automatic processes.
Slips associated with automatic processes:
• capture errors • omissions • perservations • description errors • data-driven errors • associative-activation errors • loss-of-activation errors
How to study things outside the conscious awareness?
with priming
Blindsight
traces of visual perceptual ability in blind areas
Priming
participants are presented with a first stimulus (the prime) -> break -> second stimulus and make a judgement Effect of prime on second stimulus?