Attention

Question 1

dichotic listening

Answer 1

-an experiment in which two messages are presented to two different ears

Question 2

divided attention

Answer 2

-ability to flexibly allocate attentional resources between two or more concurrent tasks

Question 3

inattentional blindness

Answer 3

failure to notice a fully visible object when attention is devoted to something else

Question 4

limited capacity

Answer 4

notion that humans have limited mental resources that can be used at one time

Question 5

selective attention

Answer 5

ability to select certain stimuli in the environment to process, while ignoring distracting information

Question 6

subliminal perception

Answer 6

ability to process information for meaning when an individual is not consciously aware of the information.

Question 7

Broadbent’s Filter Model

Answer 7

• dichotic listening tasks
• people select information on the basis of physical features.
• selection occurs early in the process
• almost no information is saved

Question 8

Treisman Filter Theory

Answer 8

• starts at a physical perceptual level
• the unattended information is not blocked completely but weakened
• information in the unattended ear will get through a filter for further processing at the level of meaning

Question 9

Deutsch and Deutsch Filter Model

Answer 9

• suggests that all info in the unattended ear is processed on the basis of meaning, not just highly selected information.
• subliminal perception you don’t have to be fully aware to process information

Question 10

Spelke Study

Answer 10

-whether individuals could learn to perform two relatively complex tasks concurrently without impairing performance.