Chapter 3 attention and consciousness Flashcards
What is attention?
Concentration of our mental activity because we want to focus on other things and toning out the other things
What is top-down processing?
Consciously choosing what you focus on something specific
what is bottom up processing?
Something in the environment takes our focus like a loud noise
what is divided attention
Trying to pay attention to two or more simultaneous stimuli your speed and accuracy will suffer
What is multitasking?
Trying to accomplish two more tests, the same time
What is in intentional blindness?
When you fail to notice a new object appear
what are task switching delays?
The time it takes to switch between tasks and dust, we make slower work and more errors during these transitions
what is selective attention?
Paying attention to certain kinds of information while ignoring other ongoing information
what is the dichotic listening tasks?
One message played and left ear one in the right ear shadow of the message people noticed little about unintended messages
What is your working memory capacity?
The brief immediate memory of material that we are currently processing
What is the Stroop task?
Name the color of a set of words, name the ink color, not the printed color
What is the kind of behavioral approach?
psychological problems arise from inappropriate thinking, cognitive factors, and learning behavioral factors
what is the visual search task?
find a target in the visual display with numerous distractors
what are Socratic eye movements?
Little jumps of the eye bringing the center of the retina over the words being red
What is fixation?
The period between two eye movements for your visual system, pauses briefly in order to require information which is required for the written test
what is perceptual span?
The number of letters and spaces we perceived during a time
What is parceptual preview?
The idea that readers access information of upcoming words, even though we are currently fixing on the previous word
What is regressions?
Move your eye backwards to materials earlier in the sentence
What is the orienting attention network?
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
what is the parietal lobe?
Part of the brain that helps your senses of touch and assembled input from your other senses into a form you can see
what is unilateral spatial neglect?
A person ignores the information that is part of their visual field
what is the executive attention network?
responsible for the kind of attention we use when the past focuses on conflict resolution
Attention used to focus on conflict resolution
What is the bottleneck theory?
narrow passageway information either passes through the bottleneck or is lost
It is too simple, not just one phase of attention processing
what is the broadbent’s model
Series of information processing channels
Sensory buffer process
Decision is made to limit processing to a single stream. Everything else is blocked out.
Treisman’s model
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
split phase switching
A listening task were you repeat one year but then the word switch
Deutsch & Deutsch Model
we can process all stimuli for meaning
We can only respond to limited stimuli
Allows for subliminal messaging
Feature Integration Theory
Annie Treisman
Distributed and Focused Attention
What is distributed attention
Register features automatically
Parallel processing
Identify features simultaneously
Lower-level processing
What is focused attention
Slower serial processsing
Identify one object at a time
Complex objects
Identify which features belong together
What is consciousness
The awareness people have about the outside world and their images thoughts memories adnd feeling
Three Interrelated issues
Our inability to being certain thought into our consciousness
Our inability to let certain thoughts escape from consciouess
Blindsight
What is mindless reading
You eyes move forward in the text but you dont process the material
What is mind wondering
When your thoughts shift from the external environment in favor of the internal processing also called off task thought
Thought suppression
The attempt to eliminate thoughts, ideas, and images, related to an undesirable stimulus
Ironic effects of mental control
How our efforts backfire when we attempt to control the contents of out consciousness
Throught suppression in clinical applications
Avoiding depressing topics
PTSD GAD OCD
what is blindsight
Vision without awareness
Still identify some visual attributes of stimulus
