Chapter 6: Attention

Question 1

what does attention do?

Answer 1

allows us to prioritize the processing of a particular stimuli

Question 2

visual salience is:

Answer 2

areas of stimuli that attract attention due to their physical properties

Question 3

attentional capture occurs when:

Answer 3

particularly salient properties of stimuli result in rapid and involuntary shifts of attention

Question 4

What is binding (Feature integration theory)

Answer 4

process by which features are combined to create our perception of coherent objects

Question 5

illusory conjunctions are:

Answer 5

properties from different objects that are erroneously bound together and perceived as being contained within the same object

Question 6

what happens in the preattentive stage of FIT?

Answer 6

object features are extracted and processed

Question 7

what happens in the focused attention stage of FIT?

Answer 7

extracted features are bound together to form coherent perception

Question 8

what is inattentional blindness?

Answer 8

the failure to perceive a stimulus that isn’t attended

Question 9

the synchrony hypothesis is:

Answer 9

when neurons in different parts of the cortex are firing to the same object, the pattern of nerve impulses in these neurons will be synchronized