Attention Flashcards

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What is an attention bottleneck?

A

The channel of info has a limited capacity due to the volume of info being too big.

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2
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Describe the cocktail party effect?

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Ones ability to focus ones attention on a particular stimulus whilst filtering out other stimuli.

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3
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Who came up with the perceptual load theory?

A

Lavie and Yehoshua 1994

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4
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Define the cognitive load

A

The amount of info that working memory can hold at one time.

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5
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Define the perceptual load.

A

basic things in the environment cause distraction.

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what is Multisensory integration

A

process by which inputs from two or more senses are combined to form a product

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7
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What is the McGurk effect

A

brain can hear someone saying different but the same sound makes it sound different.

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8
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What is covert attention

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Paying attention without moving the eye.

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9
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What is overt attention

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selectively processing one location over others by moving the eyes to point at that location.

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