[Week 5] Attention

Question 1

Dichotic listening

Answer 1

An experimental task in which two messages are presented to different ears.

Question 2

Divided attention

Answer 2

The ability to flexibly allocate attentional resources between two or more concurrent tasks.

Question 3

Inattentional blindness

Answer 3

The failure to notice a fully visible object when attention is devoted to something else.

Question 4

Limited capacity

Answer 4

The notion that humans have limited mental resources that can be used at a given time.

Question 5

Selective attention

Answer 5

The ability to select certain stimuli in the environment to process, while ignoring distracting information.

Question 6

Shadowing

Answer 6

A task in which the individual is asked to repeat an auditory message as it is presented.

Question 7

Subliminal perception

Answer 7

The ability to process information for meaning when the individual is not consciously aware of that information.