attention CM

Question 1

active attention

Answer 1

deliberate, controlled by beliefs, top down

Question 2

passive attention

Answer 2

captured by attention, controlled, bottom up

Question 3

cocktail party effect, who

Answer 3

Cherry 1953

Question 4

cocktail party effect, what

Answer 4

focus on characteristics of one voice to not register others

Question 5

early selection who

Answer 5

Broadbent 1958

Question 6

early selection what

Answer 6

filter out after the sensory buffer

Question 7

evidence for early selection

Answer 7

cherry - messages in same voice at heard so tracking becomes difficult
Moray - messages not focused on aren’t remembered even if shown 35x

Question 8

Action slips

Answer 8

unavoidable responses
Habit and goal in opposition
Automatic process

Question 9

Broadbent filter theory

Answer 9

sensory buffer - filter - STM-report

Question 10

limitations of Broadbent filter theory

Answer 10

unattended stimuli not always rejected
Processing of stimuli is flexible

Question 11

late selection

Answer 11

Filter happens after recognition

Question 12

deutsch and deutsch 1963

Answer 12

all info is processed for meaning
Remembered if response is given
Stimulus required

Question 13

Treisman and Geffen 1967

Answer 13

2 dichotic messages primary - shadow by repetition
secondary - tap
favoured perception for meaning/type of word

Question 14

central executive

Answer 14

determines goals
fails to check actions against goals
habits

Question 15

factors that may affect goal directed behaviour

Answer 15

sobriety
frontal lobe damage
time constraints

Question 16

triesman 1960

Answer 16

agrees with Broadbent but filter only attenuates processing

Question 17

preattentive recognition

Answer 17

no searching so undivided attention

Question 18

attentive recognition

Answer 18

searching and directing attention at lots

Question 19

feature integration theory

Answer 19

1-preattentive stage (rapid scan)2-attentive stage (focus+ integrated with knowledge from 1.)

Question 20

wolfe 1998

Answer 20

activated features of an object are searched, others are ignored

Question 21

frontal lobe syndrome

Answer 21

disrupts goal directed behaviour
behaviour becomes controlled by habit+environment

Question 22

shallice 1989

Answer 22

central executive is located in the frontal lobe

Question 23

inhibition .

Answer 23

inhibits inappropriate responses to achieve goals

Question 24

negative priming who

Answer 24

tipper and driver 1988

Question 25

tipper and driver 1988

Answer 25

inhibit alternate responses to succeed
reaction time is slower

Question 26

grouping

Answer 26

similar distractors are grouped

Question 27

duncan and humphreys 1989

Answer 27

alot of distractors can be ignired due to grouping making recognition easier

Question 28

targets 2 stage process

Answer 28

1- quick processing of info
2- slow search for target amongst similar candidates

Question 29

endogenous

Answer 29

attentive controlled

Question 30

exogenous

Answer 30

preattentive captured

Question 31

stroop effect 1932

Answer 31

automatic meaning is processed
interference as colour+meaning processed at the same time