attention pt2

Question 1

why do we have selective attention

Answer 1

because we have limited processing capacities

Question 2

what describes the failure to attend to new or unexpected information in our environment that is in our focus of attention?

Answer 2

inattentional blindness

Question 3

change blindness differs from inattentional blindness in that it…

Answer 3

is about not detecting a change in a stimulus

Question 4

deja vu is a form of _____ _____ because it is registered below the ______ of ______

Answer 4

inattentional blindness, threshold of awareness

Question 5

what is the spotlight theory of attention?

Answer 5

attention is about focusing on a central view in space and ignoring what is located ‘outside’ of the focused area

Question 6

what is inhibition of return (IOR)?

Answer 6

when attention is inhibited from focusing on a recently attended location after a long duration

Question 7

what theory proposes that there are different stages of attention that are driven by the features of the objects we are searching for?

Answer 7

feature integration theory of attention

Question 8

a feature search is searching for a different object based off ___ features while a conjunction search is searching for a different object based off of ____ features

Answer 8

one, many

Question 9

pop out effect is…

Answer 9

detecting something based off of one distinctive feature despite all other features being similar

Question 10

overload theory states…

Answer 10

there is an increased attentional demand with time

Question 11

underload theory states…

Answer 11

boredom leads to mind-wandering which leads to divided attention