Unit 3 Terms- Attention

Question 1

selective attention

Answer 1

focusing our attention on a particular stimuli
- putting it in the spotlight

Question 2

cocktail party effect

Answer 2

• example of selective attention
• ability to focus in on a certain stimuli (current conversation) in a room full of stimuli (all other stimuli)
• if someone across the room says our name we will still shift our attention to that

Question 3

inattention

Answer 3

the failure to perceive/notice certain stimuli

Question 4

inattentional blindness

Answer 4

not seeing something in our visual field bc our attention is focused on something else
- not seeing a gorilla walk across the screen bc focused on counting how many times a kid jumps

Question 5

change blindness

Answer 5

not noticing a change in a scene bc of an interruption in seeing
- not noticing a planes engine appearing and disappearing between flashes that interrupt our vision