Chapter 6 Flashcards
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Selective attention
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The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus as in the cocktail party effect
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Perception
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The process of selecting, organizing and interpreting sensory information
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Cocktail party effect
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The ability to tend to attend to only one voice among many
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Inattentional blindness
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Failing to see visible objects when are attention is directed elsewhere
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Change blindness
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After a brief interruption, you fail to notice changes in your visual field
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Change deafness
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Failure to notice slight changes in our auditory field
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Choice blindness
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The failure to notice our selection of a particular stimulus has changed
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Choice blindness- blindness
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Exhibiting denial to falling victim to hypothetical experiments
