Gen Psych Chapter 5: Attention Flashcards

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Definition of attention

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Focusing awareness on a specific stemuli.

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What is inattentional blindness?

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A failure to perceive stimuli because one’s attention is directed elsewhere, particularly when stimuli is unexpected.

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What is change blindness?

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A failure to detect large-scale changes from one scene to the next like the door experiment.

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What is the allusion of attention?

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People think they will notice more than they actually do.

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What is the one exception to the allusion of attention?

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Expertise in a certain field.

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What is hemispheric neglect?

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Unawareness of sensory input from half of the visual field.

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What causes hemispheric neglect?

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Brain damage to the right preorital lobe.

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What are cognitive resources?

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A kind of mental currency or mental resource that can be depleted.

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What is a cognitive load?

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The amount of cognitive resources that a task takes.

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What is automatic processing?

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The more you practice a task, the less concentration it takes.

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Which parts of brain influence focus and auto-pilot?

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The pre-frontal cortex is focus and the basal ganglia is auto-pilot.

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What is divided attention?

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Distributing attention across multiple tasks a.k.a multi-tasking.

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What is task modality?

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Same-modality tasks compete for cognitive resources.

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What is executive control?

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A set of specialized mechanisms that sets priorities, choose strategies, and directs attention.

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What is feature integration theory?

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When we see something our perception works in two stages.

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What are the two stages of feature integration theory?

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(1) Pre-attentive stage: We break down the object into components. (2) Attention stage: Attention binds all of these features together to create a unified image.

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What are illusory conjunctions?

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When we mistakenly combine features from two different objects.

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What is Balint’s Syndrome?

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Trouble focusing on objects.

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What do non-autistic people focus on?

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They pay attention to other people’s eyes and where they are looking. They also pay attention to where people are pointing.

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What is the Theory of Mind?

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The ability to understand that other people’s mind are different from their own, and the ability to distinguish what someone else might be thinking.