Attention And Consciousness Flashcards

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1
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When a person does not notice even a major change in a scene

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Change blindness

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2
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Failure to notice the number of people passing by

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Inattentional blindness

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3
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Aiming the spotlight of attention

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Attentional orienting paradigm

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4
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Monitoring a physiological measure of attention

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Oddball paradigm

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5
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Sensory rivalry

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Uncoupling sensory input from perception

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6
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The concentration of mental energy that must be used to process incoming info

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Attention

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7
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Items that lie outside our conscious awareness

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Preconscious

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8
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Target stimuli are processed caster if preceded by a related word

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Facilitative priming

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9
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Let us know what’s going on early cognitive processes

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Priming

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10
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Requires no conscious control

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Automatic processing

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11
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Requires conscious control

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Controlled processing

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12
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TRUE OR FALSE

controlled process DOES NOT require intentional effort

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False

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13
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Individual feature processing is done in parallel

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Treisman’s Feature-Integration theory

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14
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All stimuli are processed to the level of meaning

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Late selection theory

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15
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The mind-body problem

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Dualism

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16
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The idea proposed by Descartes that the mind and the brain are two diff. things

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Dualism

17
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Mental states depend on the functional role they play

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Functionalist of conscience