11.3 Attention

Question 1

What is selective attention?

Answer 1

process by which one input is attended to and the rest are tuned out

Question 2

What is the cocktail party effect?

Answer 2

phenomenon in which salient information catches one’s attention

Question 3

What is selective priming?

Answer 3

predisposition to observe something because it has previously been encountered frequently

Question 4

What is the spotlight model?

Answer 4

model for visual attention, with a spotlight representing one’s attention and its ability to move focus onto different targets

Question 5

What is the binding problem?

Answer 5

problem of how all the different aspects are visual perception are assembled together and related to a single object rather than something in the visual field

Question 6

What is divided attention?

Answer 6

when and if we are able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously

Question 7

What is the resource model of attention?

Answer 7

we have a limited pool of resources on which to draw when performing tasks, both modality specific resources and general resources