attention

Question 1

3 attention components

Answer 1

orienting, controlling and maintaining alertness

Question 2

Orienting

Answer 2

turning sensory organs towards stimulus and spreading additional cortical activation to regions associated with processing that stimulus and inhibiting other activation.

Question 3

Controlling

Answer 3

unconscious attentional mechanisms focus conscious awareness helping to decide how long and how intently to focus on a stimuli.

Question 4

Maintaining alertness

Answer 4

staying focused on the important stimuli.

Question 5

Dichotic listening

Answer 5

process of exposing different auditory information in each ear.

Question 6

Shadowing

Answer 6

repeating words as they are heard.

Question 7

Cherry (1953)

Answer 7

found individuals could shadow words from their attended ear but could not report whether the unattended message was from a male or female or what was being said.

Question 8

Cocktail part effect

Answer 8

being able to focus on a single part of conversation in a large room due to focused attention.

Question 9

Original stages of the early selection model

Answer 9

sensory memory, filter, detector, memory output sent to short-term memory.

Question 10

added parts of the model

Answer 10

attenuator, dictionary unit

Question 11

attenuator

Answer 11

analyses message in terms of physical characteristics

Question 12

dictionary unit

Answer 12

contains words stored in memory.

Question 13

Inattentional blindness

Answer 13

when people are unaware of clearly visible stimuli.

Question 14

Inattentional deafness

Answer 14

when people are unaware of clearly audible stimuli.

Question 15

Visual search

Answer 15

scanning of a scene to find a specific object.

Question 16

Change detection

Answer 16

lack of attention altering perception.

Question 17

Change blindness

Answer 17

difficulty in detecting changes in scenes.