Attention

Question 1

Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 1

we can “tune in” to a particular stimulus, like our name being said from across the room

Question 2

Treisman Model

Answer 2

unattenuated info can become attenuated

Question 3

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 3

direct attention causes people to miss things happening in the background

Question 4

Change Blindness

Answer 4

failure to notice changes that take place

Question 5

Unattended Stimuli

Answer 5

color and design might subconsciously affect our mood and behavior

Question 6

Multitasking

Answer 6

degrades ones ability to perform complex tasks compared to doing them in isolation

Question 7

Allport’s Module Resource Theory

Answer 7

attention comes from distinct, specialized modules of the brain

Question 8

Controlled Processing

Answer 8

conscious focus on a task, skills often start out requiring controlled processing

Question 9

Automatic Processing

Answer 9

unconscious work on a task, with practice skills can become automatically processed