Chapter 3 Flashcards

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A task in which subjects are presented with a different message to each ear over headphones.

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dichotic listening

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A task used to measure auditory attention in which subjects are asked to repeat a spoken message as it is presented, typically while ignoring another message

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shadowing

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Broadbent’s theory of attention in which sensory information has to pass through some bottleneck at which only some of the information is selected for further processing.

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filter theory

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Treisman’s theory of attention which proposed that we “turn down” (but not completely block out) some sensory signals on the basis of their physical characteristics

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attenuation theory

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A theory of attention proposed by Deutsch and Deutsch in which selection occurs at the response stage, after all incoming stimuli have been processed for meaning.

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late selection theory

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A phenomenon in which auditory attention is involuntarily drawn to highly meaningful or significant information on the unattended channel (e.g., the subject’s name)

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cocktail party effect

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See attentional limitations as a result of dividing limited mental resources among different tasks or stimuli.

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capacity theory

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A highly practiced task or skill which requires little or no conscious attention to execute.

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automatic process

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A task or skill that must requires conscious attention for its execution.

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controlled process

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People’s overlearned tendency to read a word interferes with naming the ink color in which it is printed (when the two conflict, e.g., the word “green” printed in red ink).

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stroop effect

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A conception of visual attention that compares attention to a beam of light that can be focused on particular locations in the visual field; ALSO a metaphor for consciousness that focuses on its selectiveness and limited capacity.

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spotlight metaphor

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Conceptualizes consciousness as a sort of central stage in which information is made available to a wide variety of specialized processing systems.

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theater metaphor

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A conception of consciousness that focuses on the mystery of subjective experience or phenomenal awareness.

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sentience

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refers to the fact that the same program can run on different physical machines.

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platform independence

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