Attention

Question 1

Attention

Answer 1

The focus or concentration onto an object at the exclusion of other stimuli

Question 2

Divided Attention

Answer 2

Trying to split your attention between two or more things. People will usually switch between them rather than focus on both simultaneously

Question 3

Selective Attention

Answer 3

Dedicating your attention to one thing over another

Question 4

Exogenous Cues

Answer 4

Cues that pop out on their own and drive our attention towards them

Question 5

Endogenous Cues

Answer 5

Cues that require internal knowledge to know what to look for

Question 6

Cocktail Party Effect

Answer 6

The ability to focus your attention on voice in a group of many voices

Question 7

Inattentional Blindness

Answer 7

The inability to perceive certain things in your visual field when your attention is dedicated elsewhere

Question 8

Change Blindness

Answer 8

Failure to notice a change in the environment when your attention is dedicated elsewhere

Question 9

Shadowing Task

Answer 9

A research experiment where different input was given to each ear and participants were told to repeat what was given in one ear. We learn about selective attention from it

Question 10

Early Selection Theory

Answer 10

By Broadbent; Everything gets put into a sensory register, and then passes through a selection filter immediately. to filter out what isn’t needed. Then it goes through perceptual processes. You can then work on other cognitive tasks

Question 11

Late Selection Theory

Answer 11

By Deutch & Deutch; Selective filter comes after perceptual processes to decide what makes it to consciousness

Question 12

Attenuation Theory

Answer 12

By Treisman; An attenuator instead of a filter weakens but does not filter out unneeded stimuli. These input are still processed but not as a high priority. The brain can switch to them if they turn out to be something important

Question 13

Spotlight Model of Attention

Answer 13

We take input from all five senses but we don’t respond to all of them at a given time. We are aware of things on an unconscious level

Question 14

Priming

Answer 14

Exposure to one stimulus affects the response to another stimulus

Question 15

Resource Model of Attention

Answer 15

We don’t have enough resources for divided attention. Multitasking is just switching your attention between two different tasks. It is more difficult to multitask if one task requires much focus or if two tasks are similar