Attention Theory Flashcards
Stimulus, physical response, thought, emotion
James Lange
Simultaneous thought and feeling
Cannon Baird aka Thalami
Physical response + context/thoughts = emotion
Singer Shachter
Thought then physical feeling
Lazarus
First model of selective attention
Broadbent’s model
What class is Broadbent’s filtration model
Early selection model
What was Broadbent’s theory
Input filtered before analysed
Filtered by physical characteristics
Left and right ears work independently
What did Broadbent’s theory not explain
Cocktail Party phenomenon
What class is Treisman’s Attenuation Theory
Intermediate selection model
Describe Treisman’s Theory?
Leaky filter model- allows some things though be weakens them.
Two stage filter mechanism.
Includes a dictionary unit = certain words have lower thresholds for getting our attention
Which theory includes the notion of a dictionary unit?
Treisman’s
What class was Deutsch and Deutsch’s model?
Late stage model
Describe Deutsch and Deutsch’s model
Input analysed for meaning before filtering occurs.
Selection does not occur until the meaning has been processed.
