Stop, Look, Listen | Attention & Consciousness (Cognitive Psych #2)
Channel: Francis Simonh Bries
Date: 2020-09-02

"Pay attention!" You're usually told this in an annoyed voice whenever you drift off to some other cognitive place. But attention is more crucial than making people think you're still with them. It's what makes higher cognition possible in the first place. [Psych 148, Episode 2/9]



00:00 Attention & Consciousness
00:28 Selective Attention
01:06 Divided Attention
01:55 PART 1 - Theories of Attention
02:44 Early Selection Theories
02:54 Filter Theory
03:38 Attenuation Theory
05:16 Late Selection Theories
05:51 Early vs. Late?
06:16 PART 2 - Directing Attention
06:34 Spatial Attention (Overt vs. Covert)
07:00 Visual Scanning & Eye Movements
07:52 Exogenous & Endogenous Spatial Attention
08:12 Attentional Capture
08:20 Stimulus Salience
09:18 Scene Schemas (Physical & Semantic Regularities)
09:41 Task Demands
10:39 PART 3 - Distraction & Division
11:33 Load Theory of Attention
12:36 Inattentional & Change Blindness
13:31 Is Attention Needed?
14:40 PART 4 - Attention & Action
14:55 Controlled Processing
15:40 Automatic Processing (Automaticity)
16:46 Binding
17:24 Feature Integration Theory
17:55 Feature & Conjunction Visual Search
18:52 Illusory Conjunctions
19:54 Epilogue

Produced by Francis Simonh Bries
Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines Diliman

[REFERENCES]

Eysenck, M. W., & Keane, M. T. (2010). Cognitive psychology: A Student's Handbook (6th ed.). Psychology Press.

Goldstein, E. B. (2019). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research, and Everyday Experience (5th ed.). Cengage.

[LINKS]

https://nobaproject.com/textbooks/introduction-to-psychology-the-full-noba-collection/modules/the-unconscious

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