attention

Question 1

automatic and involuntary attention

Answer 1

exogenous

Question 2

rapid shift of attention

Answer 2

attentional capture

Question 3

shift of attention through eye movement

Answer 3

overt

Question 4

eye movements giving a good estimate to where attention is focusing

Answer 4

saccades

Question 5

theory proposing ability to ignore task-irrelevant stimuli depends on load

Answer 5

load theory

Question 6

color text stimuli effect

Answer 6

stroop effect

Question 7

model of selective attention proposing that the filter identifies the attended message based on physical characteristics

Answer 7

broadbent’s filter model

Question 8

accoridng to this theory, when a distractor appears at a low-load task, our response toward the target is slower

Answer 8

load theory of attn

Question 9

this experiment had participants hear two stories and recite one

Answer 9

dichotic listening

Question 10

tuning into one conversastion while ignoring the others

Answer 10

selective attention

Question 11

attention definition

Answer 11

focusing of perception leading to greater consciousness of stimuli…..focusing of mental effort

Question 12

selective attention

Answer 12

ability to choose to focus on only one stimuli

Question 13

divided attn

Answer 13

focusing on two stimuli

Question 14

attentional capture

Answer 14

rapid shift in attn (loud noise)

Question 15

visual scanning

Answer 15

eye movements

Question 16

interfenence

Answer 16

red being written in green

Question 17

facilitation

Answer 17

red being written in red

Question 18

central vision

Answer 18

area we’re looking nat

Question 19

peripheral vision

Answer 19

sides

Question 20

bottom up factors

Answer 20

physical characteristics

Question 21

stimulus salience

Answer 21

physical properties of stimulus (color, brightness)

Question 22

covert attention

Answer 22

shift attn w/o eye movement

Question 23

posner et al. experiment

Answer 23

arrow pointing attn activity

Question 24

inattentional blindness

Answer 24

failure to notice a stimuli in plain site

Question 25

change blindness

Answer 25

failure to notice a change

Question 26

balint's syndrome

Answer 26

attentional shifting problems

Question 27

simultanagnosia

Answer 27

can't fixate the visual field as a whole

Question 28

oculomotor apraxia

Answer 28

difficulty fixating the eyes

Question 29

optic ataxia

Answer 29

can't use vision to move hand to specific object

Question 30

attentuator

Answer 30

analyzes the incoming message in terms of physical characteristics, language and meaning

Question 31

dictionary unit

Answer 31

contains words stored in memory each with different threasholds