PY2025 - Lecture 03 - Attention (2017)

Level-2 / Year-2 BPS accredited core module "Cognitive Psychology", held at Brunel University January-March 2017 (also see recordings from 2015 for a slightly different covering of topics). Main topics covered: Definition of Attention; Models of attention; Early selection models; Donald Broadbent; Attenuator Model; Anne Treisman; Late Selection Model; Deutsch & Deutsch; Theory of perceptual load / load theory; Nillie Lavie; Automaticity; Instance theory of automaticity; Logan; automatic vs controlled processing