Attention

Question 1

Divided Attention

Answer 1

• Divided attention occurs when an individual must perform two tasks which require attention, simultaneously.

Question 2

Directed attention

Answer 2

• Allows attention to be focused sustainably on a single task.

Question 3

Attention

Answer 3

• Focus/concentrating on something at the exclusion of the other stimuli in environment.

Question 4

Selective Attention

Answer 4

• When you divide your attention on one task between 2
• Example: watch TV and studying together

Question 5

Type of Cue Attention: Exogenous/External Cues

Answer 5

• Don’t have to tell ourselves to look for them in order for them to capture our attention
• Example: Bright colors, loud noises, “pop-out effect”)

Question 6

Type of Cue Attention: Endogenous/Internal

Answer 6

• Require internal knowledge to understand the cue and the intention to follow it
• Example: A mouse arrow, would need internal arrow of what an arrow is to follow it and to know it’s not just a random line.

Question 7

Perceptual Blindness

Answer 7

• We aren’t aware of things not in our visual field when our attention is directed elsewhere in that field.
• “miss something right in front of you”

Question 8

Change Blindness

Answer 8

• Fail to notice changes from a previous to a current state in environment.
• Example: don’t notice when your mom gets a haircut.

Question 9

Distal Stimuli

Answer 9

• is the actual object.
• Pictures, a tree, a person, a car.

Question 10

Proximal Stimuli

Answer 10

• Are the patterns of stimuli from these objects and events that actually reach your senses (eyes, ears, etc.).
• is what the distal stimulus is giving you:
• Light stimulus
• Auditory stimulus

Question 11

Covert Orienting

Answer 11

• Is when something catches your minds attention but you don’t really initiate any physical response.
• Playing it cool.

Question 12

Overt Orienting

Answer 12

• Is when you move your entire head/eyes/body because something may catch your attention
• Think of it like viewing something objectively.

Question 13

Attentional Capture

Answer 13

• Occurs when attention is attracted by the motion of an object or stimulus.

Question 14

Neglect Syndrome

Answer 14

• Neuropsychological condition in which after damage to one hemisphere of the brain is sustained, a deficit in attention to and awareness of one side of the field of vision is observed.

Question 15

Selective Attention - Broadbent’s Early Selection Theory

Answer 15

• All information in environment goes into:
  1. Sensory Register - stores ALL INFORMATION
  2. Selective Filter - identifies what you are supposed to and not supposed to be attending
  3. Perceptual Process - assigns meaning to words
  4. Conscious - deciding how to respond.

Question 16

Selective Attention - Deutch & Deutch’s Late Selection Theory

Answer 16

• Places Broadband selective filter after perceptual processes.
• This means that you DO register and assign everything meaning but then selective filter decides what you pass on to conscious awareness.

Question 17

Selective Attention - Treisman’s Attenuation Theory

Answer 17

• Replaces the selective filter with an attenuator, which selectively allows the attended message to be processed to a greater extent than the unattended message.
  1. Sensory Register
  2. Attenuator
  3. Perceptual Process
  4. Conscious
• Acronym: Triessman is SHARP as a T. He is smart enough to only attenuate and then perceive.