Simplified Edition · Module 01
Cognitive Psychology
Attention, memory and judgement: what the system does with limited capacity, and what that costs.
- 12 activities
- 5 to 7 minutes each
- 72 minutes end to end
The activities
In teaching order
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Posner Spatial Cueing
Moving attention without moving the eyes, and why a cueing effect is two effects rather than one
6 min
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Visual Search Laboratory
Why the slope of a search function matters more than how fast anyone was
6 min
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Inattentional Blindness
Attention, awareness, and an object in plain view that goes unreported
5 min
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Change Blindness
Why a quarter-second of blank makes a large obvious change nearly impossible to find
6 min
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Attentional Blink
The few hundred milliseconds after finding one target in which a second one is not seen
7 min
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Stroop Interference Laboratory
Colour-word interference, and why a neutral baseline turns one effect into two
6 min
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What Got Through
What survives from a stream you are ignoring, and what the selection theories were built to explain
5 min
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Dual-Task Capacity Laboratory
What doing two easy things at once actually costs, measured against your own baseline
7 min
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Working-Memory Load Laboratory
Why what you are doing in between matters as much as how much you are holding
7 min
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Remembering a Word Nobody Said
How a word that was never presented gets remembered confidently, and attributed to someone
6 min
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Decision Framing Laboratory
How the same outcomes described two ways produce opposite choices
5 min
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Two Things Called Attention
What the operation called attention actually computes, and why sharing a name is not sharing a mechanism
6 min
Elsewhere
Every activity here has a full-length twin in the main collection, linked from the foot of the activity itself.