Attention Orienting

Question 1

Attention capture

Answer 1

• Happens in the orienting reflex
• Spontaneous redirection of attention to stimuli that are significant or novel for us

Question 2

Overt attention

Answer 2

Eyes and body move towards the stimuli

Question 3

Orienting Reflex

Answer 3

Redirecting due to a unexpected stimuli
- Location - finding respons
- Social Cues influence
What are they looking at
- Language cues

Question 4

Covert attention

Answer 4

Attend to a stimulus without making an eye movement

Question 5

Pre-motor theory

Answer 5

Just before we make eye movement to a stimulus, attention is already oriented to that stimulus

Question 6

Posner exogenous spatial cuing task

Answer 6

Research task, see how fast we respond to target stimulus without making mistakes
-Focus on mental attention
1. Fixation
2. Valid cue
Biggest chance of target stimulus to be there
3. Target stimulus

-When we got to redirect our attention
1. Disengage
2. Shift
3. Enagage
All this takes time

Question 7

Spotlight effect

Answer 7

Mental attention that prepares you to encode stimulus information
- Voluntary
- Can act like as a real life spotlight, enhances the effeciency of detection of events within its beam
The size can wary
- Jumps between locations

Question 8

Disjunction search

Answer 8

• Pop out effect
• Search for one feature

Question 9

Conjuction search

Answer 9

• Search for combination of features
  One green X among green Os and red Xs
• Slower and deliberate attention process
• More distractions

Question 10

Selective attention

Answer 10

Only process what we need, filter out unnecessary information
- No attention, no awareness of it

Question 11

Inattentional blindness

Answer 11

Failure to notice an unexpected stimulus we are looking at directly due to our attenting being directed elsewhere
- Focused on a movie, failure to see a blooper

Question 12

Change blindness

Answer 12

Failure to notice an obvious change in visual stimuli when those changes occur during a saccade
-Changing images on a screen

Question 13

Hemineglect

Answer 13

• Due to brain injuries
  Often right hemisphere
• A disruption in the ability to refocus your attention to one side of your face to another
• Half of the perceptual world neglected to a degree, cant see it voluntarily
  Drawing a house, missing details on the left side