Attention and Encoding Flashcards
What are the two types of attention?
External and internal
What are the components of attention?
Direction and intensity
What is the dual-stage two face model of selective attention?
A model that describes how attention processes information in two stages
What is facial pareidolia?
The phenomenon of perceiving faces in inanimate objects or patterns
How quickly can humans recognize faces?
Within 200 milliseconds
What is the FFA?
Fusiform face area, a specialized brain area for face recognition
What is prosopagnosia?
Inability to recognize familiar faces
What is change blindness?
Inability to notice a change in a scene when it occurs away from focus
What is choice blindness?
Failure to notice a mismatch between decisions and outcomes
True or False: Emotions affect our ability to recognize faces.
True
What is the Angry/Happy Superiority Effect?
Angry and happy faces are more easily recognized than other emotions
What factors make stimuli salient?
- Being visually different/novel
- Unexpected
- Extremes
- Negative events
- Being goal-relevant
- Physical position
What are the consequences of salience?
- Considered influential within a group
- Better memory of situations
- Affects judgments
What is inattentional blindness?
The failure to notice a salient stimulus due to lack of attention
What is encoding in memory?
The first step in creating a memory
What is priming?
Presentation of one stimulus influences the interpretation of new information
Fill in the blank: Chronic accessibility affects how you classify people based on _______.
[certain personality trait dimensions]
What can chronic negative self-focus lead to in individuals suffering from depression?
Negative rumination
What effect do positive or negative primes have on interpreting ambiguous stimuli?
They influence the interpretation based on the valence of the prime
What is the significance of eye morphology in humans?
It contributes to unique social behaviors not observed in many other animals
What is the impact of camera angle in video confessions?
It can make a suspect appear more guilty by focusing on them
