Attention

Question 1

When we focus our attention we ____ to something

Answer 1

attend

Question 2

We can _____ where we put our attention.

Answer 2

Select

Question 3

Things can ____ our attention

Answer 3

capture

Question 4

We can move our attention through ____ (move your attention with moving your eyes) or _____ (move your attention without moving your eyes)

Answer 4

overt
covert

Question 5

Our attention resources can be ______

Answer 5

limited

Question 6

Selective attention: Choosing where your attention goes
Example?

Answer 6

Where is Waldo, you attend to everything that is red Bec he wears red and you attend to different sections of the picture

Question 7

Selective attention:
Three Paradigms?

Answer 7

Inattentional Blindness:
Change Blindness:
Attentional blinka:

Question 8

Evidence for spatial Attention: Posner(1980) basic paradigm Cueing Task
Method

Answer 8

Show a cue, show a target, measure reaction time
Valid(match) and invalid (not a match)
Square gets bolded (cue) and then a small square appears (target) in same box. = exogenous (valid)
Square gets bolded (cue) and then a small square appears (target) in another box + exogenous (invalid)
Endogenous Valid: You are told the target will be in the right and then it appears on the right
Invalid Edenogenous: You are told it will be on the left and then it appears on the right.

Question 9

Same location benefit: (Posner 1980)

Answer 9

Results from cueing task show that people are slower in invalid trials than neutral, faster at valid trials than neutral and invalid.
Showed that an object doesn’t have to be somewhere to have your attention. This is evidence that we can have spatial attention, that we can look in locations rather than just for certain objects or things.

Question 10

Visual Neglect

Answer 10

Damage to parietal lobe, ignores one side of the world, information is coming in but they are not paying attention to it. (won’t eat from left side of plate, won’t shave left side of face)