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Attention and Encoding Flashcards

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What are the two types of attention?

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External and internal

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What are the components of attention?

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Direction and intensity

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What is the dual-stage two face model of selective attention?

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A model that describes how attention processes information in two stages

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What is facial pareidolia?

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The phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects or patterns

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How quickly can humans recognize faces?

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Within 200 milliseconds

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What is the FFA?

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Fusiform face area, a specialized brain area for face recognition

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What is prosopagnosia?

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Inability to recognize familiar faces

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What is change blindness?

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Inability to notice a change in a scene when it occurs away from focus

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What is choice blindness?

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Failure to notice a mismatch between decisions and outcomes

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True or False: Emotions affect our ability to recognize faces.

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True

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What is the Angry/Happy Superiority Effect?

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Angry and happy faces are more easily recognized than other emotions

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What factors make stimuli salient?

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  • Being visually different/novel
  • Unexpected
  • Extremes
  • Negative events
  • Being goal-relevant
  • Physical position
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What are the consequences of salience?

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  • Considered influential within a group
  • Better memory of situations
  • Affects judgments
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What is inattentional blindness?

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The failure to notice a salient stimulus due to lack of attention

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What is encoding in memory?

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The first step in creating a memory

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What is priming?

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Presentation of one stimulus influences the interpretation of new information

17
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Fill in the blank: Chronic accessibility affects how you classify people based on _______.

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[certain personality trait dimensions]

18
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What can chronic negative self-focus lead to in individuals suffering from depression?

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Negative rumination

19
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What effect do positive or negative primes have on interpreting ambiguous stimuli?

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They influence the interpretation based on the valence of the prime

20
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What is the significance of eye morphology in humans?

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It contributes to unique social behaviors not observed in many other animals

21
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What is the impact of camera angle in video confessions?

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It can make a suspect appear more guilty by focusing on them

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