attention Flashcards
attention is a _______ resource
limited
what is attention ?
selectively focusing on particular information
what is the dichotic listening tasked used to examine ?
selective attention
how does the dichotic listening task work ?
play something in both ears and they tell them to focus on one ear
in late models of the dichotic listening task some meaning gets through, what can be seen/heard ?
name, something frightening that triggers galvanic skin response
what is the difference between top down and bottom up processing ?
top down: background and expectations interpret what we see
bottom up: attention captured by sensory information in the environment
what type of attention is most reliant on the prefrontal and parietal cortex ?
top down attention
what is change blindness ?
not noticing change bc focused elsewhere
what is the term that is similar to change blindness ?
inattentional blindness
what is an example of visual search ?
color changing card trick
what is visual search ?
selective attention for a particular target
what is feature search ?
need to find one feature, # of distractors doesn’t change response
what is conjunctive search ?
need to find a combination of features, # of distractors makes it harder
what type of search is slower ?
conjunctive search
in what type of attention can you focus when not looking ?
covert attention
