Quiz 8- Attention Flashcards
How did William James define attention
It is taking possession by the mind in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought… it implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state.
Define selection
the act of attending to an object to select it apart from the unattended objects
give examples of selection
as you put on clothes, you can feel them on your skin and the feeling goes away after some time
what is attention
the ability to tend to the information that is relevant to our goal
- an active process
when do we get distracted?
when irrelevent information overwhelms us
define an automatic process
triggered involuntarily by external events which trigger “capture” of attention
give examples of automatic processes
- attention to ambulance
- fast, efficient
define controlled processess
guide attention consciously and voluntarily
give an example of controlled processes
driving
define salient information
information that pops up at you to capture attention
give an example of salient information
someone honking at you
define attentional spotlight
focuses on part of environment at a time
what happens to objects within spotlights
processed preferentially
how was attention measured and where was our attentional spotlight attracted
using cued paradigms to test automatic processes of attention and our spotlight was attracted to the cues
what happens if cue is detected in flashing box
noticed quickly
