Chapter 3 attention and consciousness

Question 1

What is attention?

Answer 1

Concentration of our mental activity because we want to focus on other things and toning out the other things

Question 2

What is top-down processing?

Answer 2

Consciously choosing what you focus on something specific

Question 3

what is bottom up processing?

Answer 3

Something in the environment takes our focus like a loud noise

Question 4

what is divided attention

Answer 4

Trying to pay attention to two or more simultaneous stimuli your speed and accuracy will suffer

Question 5

What is multitasking?

Answer 5

Trying to accomplish two more tests, the same time

Question 6

What is in intentional blindness?

Answer 6

When you fail to notice a new object appear

Question 7

what are task switching delays?

Answer 7

The time it takes to switch between tasks and dust, we make slower work and more errors during these transitions

Question 8

what is selective attention?

Answer 8

Paying attention to certain kinds of information while ignoring other ongoing information

Question 9

what is the dichotic listening tasks?

Answer 9

One message played and left ear one in the right ear shadow of the message people noticed little about unintended messages

Question 10

What is your working memory capacity?

Answer 10

The brief immediate memory of material that we are currently processing

Question 11

What is the Stroop task?

Answer 11

Name the color of a set of words, name the ink color, not the printed color

Question 12

What is the kind of behavioral approach?

Answer 12

psychological problems arise from inappropriate thinking, cognitive factors, and learning behavioral factors

Question 13

what is the visual search task?

Answer 13

find a target in the visual display with numerous distractors

Question 14

what are Socratic eye movements?

Answer 14

Little jumps of the eye bringing the center of the retina over the words being red

Question 15

What is fixation?

Answer 15

The period between two eye movements for your visual system, pauses briefly in order to require information which is required for the written test

Question 16

what is perceptual span?

Answer 16

The number of letters and spaces we perceived during a time

Question 17

What is parceptual preview?

Answer 17

The idea that readers access information of upcoming words, even though we are currently fixing on the previous word

Question 18

What is regressions?

Answer 18

Move your eye backwards to materials earlier in the sentence

Question 19

What is the orienting attention network?

Answer 19

The part of the brain responsible for the attention that is required for a visual search in which you shift your attention to various spatial

Question 20

what is the parietal lobe?

Answer 20

Part of the brain that helps your senses of touch and assembled input from your other senses into a form you can see

Question 21

what is unilateral spatial neglect?

Answer 21

A person ignores the information that is part of their visual field

Question 22

what is the executive attention network?

Answer 22

responsible for the kind of attention we use when the past focuses on conflict resolution
Attention used to focus on conflict resolution

Question 23

What is the bottleneck theory?

Answer 23

narrow passageway information either passes through the bottleneck or is lost
It is too simple, not just one phase of attention processing

Question 24

what is the broadbent’s model

Answer 24

Series of information processing channels
Sensory buffer process
Decision is made to limit processing to a single stream. Everything else is blocked out.

Question 25

Treisman’s model

Answer 25

similar to board bent, but the filter is different. Other information isn’t completely blocked out.
Other info gets less attention unless you reach the threshold still can’t focus on everything

Question 26

split phase switching

Answer 26

A listening task were you repeat one year but then the word switch

Question 27

Deutsch & Deutsch Model

Answer 27

we can process all stimuli for meaning
We can only respond to limited stimuli
Allows for subliminal messaging

Question 28

Feature Integration Theory

Answer 28

Annie Treisman
Distributed and Focused Attention

Question 29

What is distributed attention

Answer 29

Register features automatically
Parallel processing
Identify features simultaneously
Lower-level processing

Question 30

What is focused attention

Answer 30

Slower serial processsing
Identify one object at a time
Complex objects
Identify which features belong together

Question 31

What is consciousness

Answer 31

The awareness people have about the outside world and their images thoughts memories adnd feeling

Question 32

Three Interrelated issues

Answer 32

Our inability to being certain thought into our consciousness
Our inability to let certain thoughts escape from consciouess
Blindsight

Question 33

What is mindless reading

Answer 33

You eyes move forward in the text but you dont process the material

Question 34

What is mind wondering

Answer 34

When your thoughts shift from the external environment in favor of the internal processing also called off task thought

Question 35

Thought suppression

Answer 35

The attempt to eliminate thoughts, ideas, and images, related to an undesirable stimulus

Question 36

Ironic effects of mental control

Answer 36

How our efforts backfire when we attempt to control the contents of out consciousness

Question 37

Throught suppression in clinical applications

Answer 37

Avoiding depressing topics
PTSD GAD OCD

Question 38

what is blindsight

Answer 38

Vision without awareness
Still identify some visual attributes of stimulus