3- What is Attention? Flashcards
What does the attention topic describe?
Our limit in information processing
What do you do when you’re exercising attention?
You move your focus to different parts of the scene
What is phenomenology?
How we subjectively experience attention
How much do we focus on?
Some aspects of the world and ignore others
What is the key idea of selective attention?
We can only process some information
What happens to information that doesn’t get processed?
It gets excluded
What happens in exclusive attention?
We extract less information and meaning
What did James believe?
We process information selectively
Why does James believe that our only choice is to selectively process information?
As the world is very rich with information
What do we have difficulty doing in change blindness?
Difficulty in detecting changes
What is the feature of change blindness?
We are blind to the change
What determines if we notice the change or not in change blindness?
How fast the change is
What does change blindness show?
How limited our attention is
What do visual illusions show?
How limited our attention is
What are the two explanations of why change blindness might occur?
- Selection- some information gets in but some is filtered out
- We can’t keep information for long enough
