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1
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What is attention described as?

A

An information filter

A spotlight

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What is the cocktail party effect?

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Ones focus changes abruptly due to salient stimulus

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Somebody enters the room and calls your name as you are talking with your friends. Your attention immediately diverts to the person who said your name. What effect is this?

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Cocktail party effect

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What is a KEY STUDY (2) of inattention blindness?

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Running track study

Policeman court case

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What is inattentional blindness?

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When you fail to see something that is plainly visible

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You are on a run and run past a car crash scene at the side of the road. You did not notice it until shown CCTV of you running past the scene. What is this an example of?

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In-attentional blindness

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Who is in-attentional blindness more likely to affect?

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A novice over an expert

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Can in-attentional blindness occur in anyone?

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Yes, even intelligent/vigilant people

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What is the key in-attentional blindness running study?

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Students asked to follow runner round track
Fight occurred on route
Asked if they saw anything unusual

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In the IAB running study, what percentage of students saw the fight in daytime
What percentage saw the fight at night time?

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72%

35%

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In the IAB running study, what effect did increasing cognitive demand (count how many times the runner tapped his head) have?

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Had major influence on IAB

Dropped to 56%

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What are 3 reasons for in-attentional blindness?

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1) Increased cog demand
2) Individual diffs between people
3) Conspicuity of stimulus

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How can expectations cause in-attentional blindness?

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Past experiences teach us what is relevant

I.e. expecting something to have a bright label, but on one occasion having a plain label

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What is the conspicuity of a stimulus?

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The degree to which it jumps to your attention

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How can mental workload/task interference affect IAB?

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It is MORE LIKELY to occur if part of our attention is diverted to a secondary task

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16
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Where are most of our attentional resources directed towards?

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The centre

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What did Laberge find, when placing targets in the centre of a screen?

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People react at a faster rate when purposely spotting it

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18
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We preferentially process whatever falls into our…

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Beam of focus

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19
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What might cause us to shift our attentional spotlight around?

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1) Envirnomental cues

2) Exogenous/endogenous cues

20
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What is cueing?

A

Being informed about an upcoming event

21
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An amber traffic light is an example of…

A

Cueing

22
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A cue is often followed by…

A

A target stimulus

23
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A cue is often followed by a target stimulus. This is called

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A valid cue

24
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Why might cues show up at locations other than that target?

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To be misleading

25
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Exogenous and endogenous cues cause…

A

The attention to shift around

26
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In an experiment, what might cause a ppt’s attention to shift around?

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Endogenous and exogenous cues

27
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What are exogenous cues?

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Cues in a location we are NOT CURRENTLY ATTENDING TO

28
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What are endogenous cues?

A

Cues within our current focus

29
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What is inhibition of return?

A

Slower RT for targets appearing in previously inspected locations

30
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What is an evolutionary advantage of IOR?

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More efficient for foraging

Stops animals searching same spot more than once

31
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Inhibition of return helps us not fixate on one location, and -

A

View the scene as a whole

32
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Inhibiting responses only happen when there are both…

A

Valid and invalid cues

33
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When does inhibition of return occur (3)

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1) long cue-stimulus gap
2) criterion shift
3) evolved response

34
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What brain imaging method has been used to assess attention?

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fMRI

35
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fMRI study into global/local motion

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Ppts asked to report whether they saw global/local

Diff areas of brain activated in global vs local

36
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What part of the brain was more active in global motion processing?

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a-IPS

37
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Studies into global/local processing suggest that spatial/feature based attention are…

A

Closely related

38
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What is global processing?

A

Processing a visual stimulus holistically (as a whole)

39
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What is local processing?

A

Processing the individual details of a stimulus rather than whole

40
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ERPs can tell us (3)…

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a) neural response/diff tasks
b) timing of attention processes
c) between group diffs in attention mechanisms

41
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The Navon task is an example of ….

A

Global vs local processing

42
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The Navon task found that people are…

A

FASTER at identifying features at the global than at the local level

43
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What does the STROOP test demonstrate?

A

Interference in RTs of a task

44
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The store task shows that it is difficult to name the ink colour of a word if there is an….

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INCONGRUENCE between colour-word and word-colour

45
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Stroop test

It is difficult to suppress our…

A

Automatic tendency to read

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