Attention and Memory Flashcards
True or False:
At some point during information processing there is interference that occurs no matter what
True
True or False:
Some stimuli are processed in parallel
True
What happens when some stimuli exceed the limits of attention
You switch between competing sources
What happens when some stimuli require prolonged periods of processing
Diminished attention
What are the 3 dimensions of attention
- Focusing
- Shifting
- Sustainability
What is focusing attention
Selectively attentive
What is shifting attention
Shift from one stimuli to another
What is sustainability attention
Staying on task
What are the 2 main categories of attention
- Selective attention
2. Divided attention
What is selective attention
Only one task or stimuli
What is divided attention
Divided between multiple tasks or stimuli
When is selective attention used
Difficulty attending to more than one thing at a time
True or False:
With selective attention you have to make a conscious decision of what too focus on
True
What are the types of selective attention (2)
- Visual selective attention
2. Auditory selective attention
What is an example of visual selective attention
Stroop task
What is an example of auditory selective attention
Dichotic listening
What is the theoretical interpretation of selective attention
Bottleneck theories
True or False:
Theories of attention differ based on when in the IP stage attention begins to decline
True
What is another name for the single channel filter theories
Bottleneck theory
True or False:
The single channel filter theories states there is a fixed capacity for IP
True
True or False:
Attention is a single resource directed at one of a number of processing operations
True
What are the 2 sub-theories of the bottleneck theory
- Early filter theories
2. Late filter theories
What are the early filter theories (2)
- Stroop
2. Dichotic listening
What is the late filter theory
Cocktail party
Why do we need the “bottleneck”
Because there are so many stimuli in the world so we don’t overload the system
Where does filtering occur in the bottleneck theories
At the bottleneck (obviously)
What does the bottleneck determine
The point at which you aren’t able to process in parallel and have to process in series
Who came up with the early filter theories
Broadbent
Who came up with the late filter theories
Treisman
What is Broadbent’s filter model (5)
- Inputs to
- Sensory store to
3 Selective filter to - Higher level processing to
- Working memory
What are the 2 types of input in Broadbent’s filter model
- Attended messages
2. Unattended messages
What is the sensory store
Where info is held for less than a second
What happens at the selective filter
The unattended message is lost
Is the unattended message processed
Nope
What is the selective filter based on
Physical properties
What is a limitation in Broadbent’s filter model
Limitations in stimulus identification
What is Broadbent’s filter model in short
Physical characteristics used to select one message for further processing and all other messages are lost
What is the stroop effect
The ability of attention to filter visual input
Does the stroop effect use serial or parallel processing
Parallel processing
What is processed faster in the stroop effect the written word or the color
The written word
What does the stroop effect show
That the unattended message (written word) gets processed fully
True or False:
The stroop effect negates Broadbent’s filter model because the unattended message gets filterd
True
What are the 2 conditions of the stroop effect (2)
- The color of the word matches the word
2. The color of the word is different from the word
What is dichotic listening
Two messages given simultaneously and the listener is asked to “shadow” a message (repeat)
What happened with the attended ear in dichotic listening
The person was able to repeat the message in the ear the were told to shadow
What happened with the non attended ear in dichotic listening
The person could determine if the voice was male or female or loud or soft
True or False:
The person being able to identify if the unattended voice was male or female refutes Broadbent’s filter model
True
What is Treisman’s attenuation model (6)
- Inputs
- Sensory store
- Attenuating filter
- Bottleneck
- Hierarchy of analyzers
- Working memory
What occurs at the bottle neck
The message is attenuated
What does the message being attenuated mean
The volume of the message is turned down
What are the hierarchy of analyzers (4)
- Syllables
- Words
- Grammar
- Semantics
What determines if the attenuated message gets processed at this stage and too what degree
Their threshold
What is Treisman’s attenuation model in short
Physical characteristics are used to select one message for processing and other messages are given partial processing (attenuation)
What is the cocktail party phenomenon
Some unattended stimuli are processed in parallel with attended stimuli during early stimulus identification
What is the short of the cocktail party phenomenon
If the stimulus is loud enough or has enough meaning it can interrupt attention
What is inattention blindness
Failure to see certain visual stimuli when engaged in specific search task
True or False:
Intentionally processing specific visual information led to the inability to process other visual stimuli
True
True or False:
Inattention blindness can be demonstrated in action events such as looked but failed to see
True
What is divided attention
Trying to attend to multiple stimuli at one and make multiple responses
What is the central resource capacity theory
The amount of attention you have to give is fixed but where you can put the attention is not fixed
True or False:
In the central resource capacity theory it is said attention can be placed on more than one stimulus at a time
True
True or False:
Tasks compete for attention
True
What is the multiple resource theories
Think of attention as multiple pools of resources in which each pool handles specific kinds of IP
True or False:
Two tasks competing for common resources don’t perform as well as two tasks competing for different resources
True