Visual attention

Question 1

divided attention

Answer 1

splitting attention on more than one thing at once

Question 2

selective attention

Answer 2

placing attention on one specific task

Question 3

stimulus salience

Answer 3

areas of stimuli attract attention due to their properties IE color, contrast, orientation

Question 4

perception without attention

Answer 4

this may cause unintentional blindness. failure to recognize an unexpected obvious change

Question 5

change blindness

Answer 5

an image is changed very slightly and slowly and we don’t see it

Question 6

how does attention influence perception

Answer 6

small dot flashed before 2 colored circles appear. one with dot before it seems darker

Question 7

binding

Answer 7

process by which features are combined to create the perception of a single object - different parts of an apple

Question 8

binding problem

Answer 8

features of an object are perceived in different parts of the brain

Question 9

(feature integration theory)

Answer 9

features that are associated with an object become incorrectly associated with another object

Question 10

pre attentive stage (feature integration theory)

Answer 10

features of an object are separated

Question 11

focused attention (feature integration theory)

Answer 11

features are bound together into coherent perception

Question 12

illusory conjunctions

Answer 12

combine features into one- a dark circle and a white square become a dark square

Question 13

conjunction search

Answer 13

finding a target with 2 or more features

Question 14

synchrony hypothesis

Answer 14

neurons firing at same object synchronize with each other

firing of neuron shows same pattern