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Bottom up processing
we direct attention towards something. “things we tend to look at”
Top down processing
Items attract attention. “what makes us look at it”
Attentional Capture
occurs when a salient and unattended stimulus draws attention, leading to awareness of its presence.
Endogenous
Reliant on biological clock and homeostasis.
Exogenous
reliant on external/environmental cues.
Delayed sleep phase disorder
is a disorder in which a person’s sleep is delayed by 2 or more hours beyond the socially acceptable or conventional bedtime.
Diathesis stress model
How biological/genetic traits can influence substance abuse depression and schitzophrenia.
Vestigiality
A trait that was “hijacked” for another purpose.
Ontogenic
how a trait develops within species.