Attention

Question 1

Who believed that attention required consciousness ?

Answer 1

William James

Question 2

What did koudier et al 2006 sya about unconscious influence ?

Answer 2

Used gaze contingent crowding
Can tell where someone’s looking on screen
Eye tracking can see how far she is from fixation point
If she looks at fixation point - can’t tell expression of face , it’s neutral
Degree of attendance were not aware of

Question 3

Attention without consciousness example 2

What happens with the continuous flash suppression?

Answer 3

2 images one to each eye
Naked lady 
Naked man
Sam fixation point. 
Identify dot 
Attention can be shifted without being aware

Question 4

What did the selective auditory attention study by cherry show?

Answer 4

Couldn’t; 
Remember contents 
Recognise language 
If speech was reversed
If language changed 

Could tell:
If was a voice or noise
If changed from male to female
Detect a sudden tone

Question 5

What is broadbents filter model?

Answer 5

The filter selects info based on physical properties such as pitch

Perception , sensory buffer, selective filter, limited capacity processor

Question 6

What couldn’t broadbents theory explain?

Answer 6

Didn’t account for when your name was said

Question 7

What does saying your name show?

Answer 7

That things beyond the physical are also processed

Question 8

What did van wright find out ?

Answer 8

Train them with a word
Every time word is said electric shock
If said into I shadowed ear there is a skin conductance

Question 9

What does van wright study show ?

Answer 9

Context dependent

Switch between channels

Question 10

What did Triesmann attentuation model show?

Answer 10

Perception - sensory buffer, attenuator, semantic analysis based on threshold

Attenuators weakens instead of filters

Question 11

What is the cocktail party effect

Answer 11

Can hear when said your name

Question 12

What is an attentional bias ?

Answer 12

We select a subset of input

Don’t take all into account

Question 13

What does attentional bias tell us about eye witness ?

Answer 13

Only take in a very small amount in

Eg magic trick example

Question 14

What do the visual search tasks show?

Answer 14

Red and green circles and squares
Stands out easily if all the same
But when mixed it’s hard

Question 15

What is a parallel search?

Answer 15

Flat set size functions

Question 16

What are serial search?

Answer 16

Positive set size function

Question 17

What is posnors 1980 spotlight paradigm ?

Answer 17

•Can focus on an area of space without 
focusses on object
•Press button when see a target = stop
•Cue in the middle can change
•Points in direction = valid
•Not in direction = invalid
•Valid cues = faster

Question 18

What are the factors that influence multitasking ?

Answer 18

How similar tasks are
How practised the operator is
How difficult the tasks are