ATTENTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS Flashcards
It has long been known that there is a connection between ___ and _____
attention
awareness
Stage magicians use ___ ____ to accomplish their craft.
covert misdirection
is when a person does not notice even a major change in a scene.
Change blindness
The subject maintains their attention on a fixation cross while the stimulus appears on one of two nearby boxes.
Attentional Orienting Paradigms
The subject is presented with a series of stimuli that are all then same, then a novel stimulus is presented.
The oddball paradigm
physiological measure, such as ____ or , ____ is used to monitor the response to the oddball.
fMRI ; EEG
occurs when the stimulus can be interpreted in one way.
If you present a different image to each eye, the precept alternates between the two.
Perceptual rivalry
The concentration of mental energy that must be used to process incoming information
Attention
Attention is
- selective
- limited
- both conscious and preconscious
Items that lie outside our conscious awareness
Preconscious
Target stimuli are processed faster if preceded by a related word
Facilitative Priming
Controlled vs. Automatic Processing
Automatic processing
Requires no conscious control
Controlled processing
Requires conscious control
Functions of conscious attention
- searching
- selective attention
- divided attention
- Actively searching for a target
- Number of targets and distracters influence accuracy
- Feature search versus conjunctive search
Select
Individual Feature processing is done in _____. Simultaneous processing is done on the ____ display and if feature is present– we detect it.
parallel
whole
