attention Flashcards
1
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types of selective attention
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overt attention
covert attention
2
Q
overt attention
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Turning head or eyes to orient towards a stimulus.
3
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covert attention
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Paying attention to one thing while appearing to pay attention to another.
4
Q
the cocktail party effect
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Cherry 1953 – experiment to assess covert selective attention – the dichotic listening task.
5
Q
spotlight model of attention
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Posner 1980 - Attention operates like a spotlight, enhancing sensory processing of objects in the spatial location to which it is directed.
6
Q
problem with early selection theories
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context effects
object-based selection
7
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late selection
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The brain seems to carry out substantial processing of stimuli before attentional selection takes place.
