Psychology Midterm prep 2 Flashcards
Split Brain
Surgery that cuts the Centre connection of the brain into two parts
Corpus callosum
Band of axons that connects the two hemispheres of the brain
Purpose of split brain procedure
To reduce the frequency and severity of seizures associated with epilepsy
Hemispheric Specialization
Idea that the brain has two separate hemispheres (right/left) that have different functions
Conscious content
The subjective experiences of your internal and external world
Attention
The process of selecting information from internal and external environments to prioritize for processing
Passive attention
Occur when attentional priorities are set by bottom up information from the environment
Active attention
Occurs when attentional priorities are set by the top down goals of an individual
Selective attention
A form of attention that occurs when a person attends to some information while ignoring other information
Stimulus Salience
Refers to the idea that some stimuli in the environment capture attention by virtue of there physical properties
Examples of Stimulus Salience
bottom-up qualities of a scene that influence how we direct attention. The color of an object or the loudness of a sound are low-level features that may capture your attention, at least initially
Attentional Capture
Occurs when attention is diverted because of the salience of a stimulus
Cocktail party effect
Describes a situation associated with selective attention. At a party a person can be engaged in a conversation and suppress/ignore all the information going on around them and attend to the conversation
Dichotic listening task
presents two different messages to a person simultaneously, and they must shadow one of these messages at the exclusion of the other
Divided attention
When a person engages in two or more tasks at once
Inattentional blindness
Refers to the tendency to miss changes to some kinds of information when your attention is engaged elsewhere
