devided attention

Question 1

divided attention

Answer 1

Doing multiple things simultaneously
( driving the car while having a serious conversation at the phone and that will lead to a car accident)

Question 2

The “Resource” Metaphor of Divided
Attention

Answer 2

Allocating your mental resources or energy to
different tasks
and normally the energy we put into one task will definitely be more than the second task (Kahneman’s capacity theory)

Question 3

Effects of Arousal on Attention
-Yerkes-Dodson law-

Answer 3

increase in arousal leads to:
-increased heart rate
-increased breathing rate
-enlarged pupils
-changes in cortical brain wave patterns
-reduction in attention span