Class 2

Question 1

Attention

Answer 1

Directs deployment of limited resources

Question 2

Experiment: information available from unattended ear?

Answer 2

Can: voice versus noise
man v woman
if the voice changes

Cannot: identify reverse speak
content
language changes

Question 3

Early experiments suggested filter theory

Answer 3

attention blocks certain information from reaching perception

Question 4

Challenge to Broadbent’s filter theory

Answer 4

cocktail party phenomenon

if you are talking to someone and someone across the room says your name you will hear it. So some information from unattended chahnnel reaches perception

Question 5

Posner’s Experiment…

Answer 5

the thing with the arrow and the plus. When it points the correct direction it is fastest. Incorrect direction, slowest

Question 6

Attentional rubbernecking

Answer 6

Emotional information induced a temperorary inability to precise simuli that people actively sought

Question 7

automaticity

Answer 7

From wikipedia: is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low-level details required, allowing it to become an automatic response pattern or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice.

Question 8

Stroop Effect

Answer 8

Interference of reaction time in a task

The word-color thing (word is colored blue, but reads green)

Question 9

random facts from gorilla study

experts are less prone to inattentional blindness

harder to detect absence than its presence

satisfaction of search- detection of one stimulus interferes with detection of another

Answer 9

atta boy

Question 10

Fun fact:

we can move attention without moving our eyes as shown by posner’s experiment

Answer 10

jajaja

Question 11

change blindness

Answer 11

we are blind to seemingly obvious changes in our environement