Week 3: Attention Perception Flashcards
What is focused attention?
When we are attending to one task and disregarding others
What is divided attention?
Attending to several simultaneous active messages and responding to each as needed
What is selective attention?
The ability to focus on one task while disregarding simultaneous tasks or stimuli
Describe the role of dichotic listening tasks in attention research
They allow researchers to see what we attend to. Different information goes into each ear.
What are the essential findings from dichotic listening research?
We will usually respond to information that has context, is emotionally evocative, personally meaningful, or to do with our names
Describe Triesman’s Feature Integration Theory
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Describe Schneider and Shiffrin’s notion of controlled vs. automatic processing
Controlled processing: intentional effort on one task at a time
Automatic processing: little or no effort
What is Broadbent’s bottleneck theory?
Humans have a cognitive capacity. When a threshold is reached, no more new information can be attended to.
Why is thought suppression difficult in relation to attention?
Nisbett & Wilson found that when people are told not to think about something, they are more likely to compared to those asked to think about it.
What is the soft problem of consciousness?
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What is the hard problem of consciousness?
- Why is it that our behaviour is accompanied by subjective experience?
What are the criticisms of Broadbent’s Bottleneck theory?
- Too simple
- Some info gets into the bottleneck
