Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Cognition > Attention > Flashcards

Attention Flashcards

1
Q

What is attention about?

A

focus.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What can attention be described as?

A

arousal

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What is bottom up attention?

A

automatic attention in the environment that grabs your attention

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What happens when there is too much or too little arousal?

A

too much: stress, not good for cognition

too little: not alert

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

what is top-down attention?

A

activated by observer when you want to pay attention.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What are the types of top-down attention?

A
  • selective attention
  • sustained attention
  • divided attention
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What is selective attention?

A

attending to one thing while ignoring the rest

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What is sustained attention?

A

Maintaining focus on a task or stimuli (vigilance)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

what is divided attention?

A

Shifting attentional focus between tasks (multi-tasking)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Why does selective attention exist?

A

because we have limited amount of processing capacity.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

at what level is information filtered at?

A

the ear

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

what is the late selection filter model?

A

process relevant and irrelevant information and select what we want to attend to at the level of the meaning.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

What is spatial neglect

A

damage to the parietal lobes which causes an inability to attend to any input in the area on the contralateral side of the brain damage.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

what is the early selection filter model?

A

we filter out things we don’t want to attend at the level of perception.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What problem can occur with early filter?

A

unattended information can “break through” into your attentional awareness

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

what is controlled processing?

A

activities we must effortfully attend to consciously

17
Q

what is automatic processing?

A

activities that do not require conscious attention to run smoothly.

18
Q

What is the load theory of selective attention?

A

assumes that when we perform a task, we use up all our resources.

19
Q

What is the central resource capacity view?

A

one resource pool from which all attention resources are allocated.

20
Q

What is the multiple resource capacity view?

A

multiple resources from which attention resources are allocated.

attentional capacity is reached later if two tasks provide similar information.

21
Q

What is inattentional blindness?

A

consequence of selective attention. failure to attend to new events in our environment that are right in front of us because attention is not focused to that location.

22
Q

What is change blindness?

A

not detecting a change in the environment.

23
Q

How does deja vu happen?

A

new location is encountered with inattention blindness, so you aren’t aware of it but still register it below threshold of awareness. Next time you encounter location with awareness, it feels familiar due to implicit priming, bu you do not have a conscious recollection of attending the location.

24
Q

What is spotlight theory of attention?

A

Attention is about focusing on a central view in space and ignoring what is located “outside” of the focused area.

25
Q

What is the feature integration theory of attention?

A

focuses on how we analyze visual scenes via feature-based attention

26
Q

what is feature search?

A

search for an object that is different from the distractors based on one feature.

27
Q

What is conjunction search?

A

search for an object that is different from the distractors across many features.

28
Q

The pop out effect

A

the time needed to find a target that is different by one feature from distractors is largely independent of the number of distractors (set size)

29
Q

what are eye-tracking tools?

A

we can measure eye movements to understand visual attention

30
Q

How do we measure sustained attention?

A

sustained attentional response task (SART)

many numbers are presented one after another with task of responding to very number except one.

31
Q

What is attentional capture?

A

new stimulus is noticed even when attention is focused elsewhere.

32
Q

What kind of information is automatically processed?

A
  • survival info
  • Personally-relevant stimuli
  • fearful objects
  • addiction related objects

Cognition (14 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions