Week 4-Attention

Question 1

Selective attention

Answer 1

Attempts to withdraw from certain sensory environment to focus on other aspects

Question 2

Divided attention

Answer 2

Do more than one thing at once

Question 3

Attentional capture

Answer 3

Certain stimuli automatically draw attention (highly salient-loud/bright/threatening)

Goal-oriented

Question 4

Distraction

Answer 4

One stimulus interrupts our ability to pay attention to another (stimulus driven)

Question 5

Cocktail party effect

Answer 5

Tune into certain conversations and sacrifice in unattended channels