Attention

Question 1

Automatic processes

Answer 1

Triggered involuntarily
Capture attention
Fast and efficient

Question 2

Controlled processes

Answer 2

Guide attention voluntarily

Slow and effortful

Question 3

Spotlight model

Answer 3

Physical spotlight focuses on only part of the environment at a time

Question 4

Cocktail party effect

Answer 4

Multiple things fighting for your attention but you can still hear the person your talking to

Question 5

Filter model

Answer 5

Shifts away distracting and only lets important info through

Question 6

Salient information

Answer 6

Captures our attention automatically

Question 7

Broadbents single filter model

Answer 7

Attentional filter selects important info on the basis of physical characteristics and allows that information to continue on for further processing

Question 8

Triesmans dual filter model

Answer 8

Physical and semantic filter

Question 9

Congruent stimuli

Answer 9

Colour and word match

Question 10

Incongruent stimuli

Answer 10

Mismatching colour and word dimensions

Question 11

Set size

Answer 11

Number of items to search through

Question 12

Set size effect

Answer 12

Increase in difficulty as the set size increases

Question 13

Single feature search

Answer 13

Only have to look for one particular feature to identify the target

Question 14

Conjunction search

Answer 14

Identifying a target that is defined by two or more features

Question 15

Pop out effect

Answer 15

When the object of a visual search is easily found regardless of set size

Question 16

Breakthrough

Answer 16

Information with high semantic value can break through

Question 17

Hemi spatial neglect

Answer 17

Paying attention to half of the world

Brain damage to right parietal lobe

Question 18

Bottom up processing

Answer 18

Attention is captured by salient change in the environment

Question 19

Top down processing

Answer 19

Strategically direct your attention to match your current goals and expectations from past experience through memory

Question 20

Orienting

Answer 20

How attention moves across a scene

Question 21

Overt attending

Answer 21

Attending to things you are looking at

Question 22

Covert orienting

Answer 22

Attending to things without looking

Question 23

Inhibition of return

Answer 23

If the time between the onset of the cue and the target is more than 300 milliseconds it will take you longer to detect the target at cues locations rather than uncued ones

Question 24

Inattentional blindness

Answer 24

demonstrates that our limited attentional processes can be susceptibility to missing out on some very important and salient things

Question 25

Attenuated

Answer 25

Turned down