Attention Flashcards
Instead of a filter, Treisman’s attention model has an __________ to allocate attention in information processing.
Attenuator
Broadbent’s “Filter Model” proposes that the filter identifies the attend message based on
physical characteristics
Experiments that support the idea of early selection usually involve high-load tasks
TRUE
Which of the following is an experimental procedure used to study how attention affects the processing of competing stimuli?
Dichotic Listening
The main difference between early and late selection models of attention is that in later selection models, selection of stimuli for the final processing doesn’t occur until the information is analyzed for . . .
Meaning
Attention experiments in which participants carried out the flaker-compatibility task under high load and low load conditions were covered in class. In one experiment the load had little effect (distractors still slowed down responding) on participants who were experience ____________ players.
Video Game
Strayer and Johnstons (2001) experiemnt involving simulated driving and the use of hands free vs. hand held cell phones found that . . .
talking on either kind of phone impairs driving performance and to the sam extent.
Why does the animate monitoring hypothesis predict animals will be detected better than other changes in change detection experiments?
Animals represented either a threat or food, both important for survival, during this period when the brain of modern man evolved.
The reduced P300 component of ERP recordings taken from participants driving and talking on a cellphone lead Strayer and Drews to conclude:
they were experiencing inattentional blindness
Based on the feature integration theory, what might occur when a subject is presented with a display of several objects with different features but not given the opportunity to focus attention on each object?
illusory conjunctions
Suppose you are in the kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you were not paying attention to the TV, you suddenly remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is best predicted by which of the following models of attention?
Late selection
In Schneider and Shiffrin’s experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate whether a target stimulus was present in a series of rapidly presented “frames”, divided attention was easier:
in the consistent mapping condition
Which of the following is an example of selective attention?
- Paying Attention to what a friend is saying in a noisy restaurant
- Focusing on the message presented in one ear while ignoring the message presented in the other ear.
- Carrying on a conversation with a friend with the TV on
