Attention And Consciousness Flashcards
When a person does not notice even a major change in a scene
Change blindness
Failure to notice the number of people passing by
Inattentional blindness
Aiming the spotlight of attention
Attentional orienting paradigm
Monitoring a physiological measure of attention
Oddball paradigm
Sensory rivalry
Uncoupling sensory input from perception
The concentration of mental energy that must be used to process incoming info
Attention
Items that lie outside our conscious awareness
Preconscious
Target stimuli are processed caster if preceded by a related word
Facilitative priming
Let us know what’s going on early cognitive processes
Priming
Requires no conscious control
Automatic processing
Requires conscious control
Controlled processing
TRUE OR FALSE
controlled process DOES NOT require intentional effort
False
Individual feature processing is done in parallel
Treisman’s Feature-Integration theory
All stimuli are processed to the level of meaning
Late selection theory
The mind-body problem
Dualism