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This programme uses examples of work in a TV studio to demonstrate that attention is a learned skill and to show the need for psychological experiments to reconstruct the variety of stimuli found i...n the real world.
This programme uses examples of work in a TV studio to demonstrate that attention is a learned skill and to show the need for psychological experiments to reconstruct the variety of stimuli found i...n the real world.
| Module code and title: | DS262, Introduction to psychology |
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| Item code: | DS262; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 24-05-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:17 |
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| Producer: | Eleanor Morris |
| Contributors: | David Hiles; Des Lynham; Sue Peacock |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Attention; Psychology |
| Master spool number: | HOU3686 |
| Production number: | FOUD139S |
| Videofinder number: | 380 |
| Available to public: | no |
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