Attention

Question 1

divided attention

Answer 1

when an individual performs two tasks at the same time which require attention silmutaenously.

Question 2

joint attention

Answer 2

focus on an object by 2 separate individuals

Question 3

directed attention

Answer 3

attention focused sustainably on a single task

Question 4

when you divide your attention on one task between 2, you’re excercising

Answer 4

selective attention

Question 5

selective attention

Answer 5

ability to maintain attention while being resented with masking or interfering stimuli

Question 6

exogenous/external

Answer 6

don’t have to tell ourselves to look for them to capture our attention, loud noise, pop-out effect etc

Question 7

endogenous/internal

Answer 7

requires internal knowledge to understand the cue and the intention to follow. mouse arrow etc

Question 8

cocktail party effect

Answer 8

type of endogenous cue in which one has the ability to concentrate on one voice in a crowd

Question 9

in-attentional (perceptual) blindess

Answer 9

we aren’t of things not in our visual field when our attention is directed somewhere else in that field (failure to notice something in plain sight)

Question 10

change blindness

Answer 10

fail to notice changes from a previous to a current state in the environment (don’t notice your mom got a new haircut)

Question 11

distal stimuli

Answer 11

objects and events out in the worlds about you

Question 12

proximal stimuli

Answer 12

patterns of stimuli from the objects and events around you that actually reach your senses

Question 13

covert orienting

Answer 13

bringing the spotlight of attention on object/event without eye or body movement

Question 14

overt orienting

Answer 14

person turns all or part of body to alter or maximize the sensory impact of an event

Question 15

attention capture

Answer 15

attention is attracted by motion of an object or stimuli

Question 16

neglect syndrome

Answer 16

damage to the brain causes loss or change in the capacity of spatial dimension of divided attention

Question 17

vigilance attention and signal detection

Answer 17

processes that attempt to detect a signal or target of interest

Question 18

basal forebrain

Answer 18

collection of structure in front and below the striatum

Question 19

basal forebrain structures include

Answer 19

nucleus accumbens
nucleus basalis
medial septal nuclei

Question 20

what structure is considered the major cholinergic output of the CNS

Answer 20

basal forebrain

Question 21

why is the basal forebrain important?

Answer 21

they produce acetylcholine which is distributed widely throughout the brain