Chapter 14 Part 2

Question 1

Knowing themself, the place they are ate, what time it is, the reason why they are there

Answer 1

Orientation

Question 2

What are the 4 types of attention?

Answer 2

Sustained, selective, alternating, divided

Question 3

Focus on a stimulus over a period of time

Answer 3

Sustained attention

Question 4

What is an example of sustained attention?

Answer 4

Studying, listening to conversation

Question 5

Focus on a stimulus while filtering out competing stimuli

Answer 5

Selective Attention

Question 6

What is an example of selective attention?

Answer 6

Reading a handout in a noisy environment in a hospital, listening to a conversation in a loud environment

Question 7

Shifting focus from one task to another and then back

Answer 7

Alternating attention

Question 8

What is an example of alternating attention?

Answer 8

Listening to what the SLP is saying and then writing it down afterwards, eating and then talking after you swallowed food

Question 9

Focus on two stimuli at the same time

Answer 9

Divided attention

Question 10

What is an example of divided attention?

Answer 10

Eating and talking at the same time, Walking and talking

Question 11

What types of attention are used for the following?: Talking on the phone while cooking

Answer 11

Divided, Sustained

Question 12

What types of attention are used for the following?: Talking on the phone while kids ask you questions

Answer 12

Alternating

Question 13

What types of attention are used for the following?: Talking on phone while others are in the room

Answer 13

Selective

Question 14

What types of attention are used for the following?: Talking on the phone

Answer 14

Sustained

Question 15

What types of attention are used for the following?: Reading a book

Answer 15

Sustained

Question 16

What types of attention are used for the following?: Reading a book while listening to the weather report on TV

Answer 16

Divided

Question 17

What types of attention are used for the following?: Reading book then listening to breaking story on TV then reading

Answer 17

Alternating

Question 18

Part of the brain responsible for disengaging attention from a current stimulus; also processes visual-spatial information and processes the “where” of vision

Answer 18

Right posterior parietal lobe

Question 19

What can damage to the right posterior parietal lobe result in?

Answer 19

Neglect syndrome

Question 20

Assists our eyes in shifting attention to new stimuli in our peripheral vision

Answer 20

Superior colliculus