Leccture 6 Flashcards
1
Q
Dichotic listenting Task
A
- right ear listenting to one message
- left ear another message
- people told to follow right ear
- people are very good at this
2
Q
Cocktail party effect
A
- People are good at focusing at something. when our name is called, we’ll notice it right away
3
Q
Filter Model of Attention
(Donald Briadbent)
A
- messages go to sensory store
- then it’s filtered
- attended message is detected by detector
- to memory
4
Q
Attentuation model of attention (Anne Triesman)
A
- messages go to our sensory store
- then from the sensory store, it goes to an autenuator
- then from the autenuator it gets detected and stored in memory
5
Q
Attenuator
A
- dampens other stimuli down
6
Q
Who came up with the Attenuator theory
A
Cherry
7
Q
What are the 2 kinds of Attention
A
- Overt
- covert Attention
8
Q
Covert Attention
A
- focus on things in your preiphery
- no look pass
- pay attention to what is in your environment
Might be something that happens in the background out of our direct focus of attention
8
Q
Overt Attention
A
- act of cosuing attention on something
9
Q
Fixation
A
fixated on faces
10
Q
Saccadic eye movement
A
- post 250 millisecond window when it’s done fixating
11
Q
Stimulus salience
A
- bottom up processing
12
Q
Cognitive factors
A
top down processing
13
Q
Precuing paradigm
A
- In a typical precueing experiment, participants are shown a cue (like an arrow or a highlight) that points to where an important stimulus (like a shape or letter) is likely to appear on the screen.
- After the cue, the participant needs to respond quickly when the stimulus actually appears, either by pressing a button or identifying the stimulus.
14
Q
Divided Attention
A
- people who use phone while driving, they are more likley to miss lights
- mind wanders
even with hands free
15
Q
Feature inegration Theory
A
- brain breaks it up and puts back together
