Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter you should be able to:
- When somebody tells you to “pay attention” what does he or she mean? How do we define attention?
- What descriptions of attention have helped researchers study attention?
- How do researchers study what someone is and is not paying attention to?
- What factors in the environment have been found to influence our attention abilities?
- How does our automatic processing affect what we pay attention to?