Lecture 7- Determinants Of Selective Attention

Question 1

Which pathway is looking for a friend

Answer 1

Top-down

Question 2

What pathway do stimulus characteristics follow

Answer 2

Bottom up

Question 3

What kind of stimuli can capture our attention

Answer 3

• Stimuli of high salience
• Movement
• Things that our relevant to us

Question 4

Salient colour singletons meaning

Answer 4

Noticing odd one out

Question 5

Is complete top-down selectivity possible?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

Stimulus driven selection only takes place within

Answer 6

Attentional window

Question 7

Spatial cues can vary size of

Answer 7

Attentional window

Question 8

Singletons outside cued location do or do not capture attention

Answer 8

Do not

Question 9

Invalid cues producing slower response time is evidence for

Answer 9

Attentional Capture

Question 10

Colour cues capture attention when

Answer 10

Target was defined on colour

Question 11

Onset cues capture attention when

Answer 11

Target was defined on onset

Question 12

What is abrupt onset

Answer 12

Something which suddenly appears

Question 13

How do attention tasks usually beginning with some kind of change to display provide evidence against stimulus driven capture

Answer 13

It may include general “display wide” settings for dynamic changes including onset’s

Question 14

Attention may be determined by

Answer 14

• Top-down goals.
• Bottom up properties of the stimuli
• Value/selection history