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1
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automatic and involuntary attention

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exogenous

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rapid shift of attention

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attentional capture

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shift of attention through eye movement

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overt

4
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eye movements giving a good estimate to where attention is focusing

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saccades

5
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theory proposing ability to ignore task-irrelevant stimuli depends on load

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load theory

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color text stimuli effect

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stroop effect

7
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model of selective attention proposing that the filter identifies the attended message based on physical characteristics

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broadbent’s filter model

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

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load theory of attn

9
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this experiment had participants hear two stories and recite one

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dichotic listening

10
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tuning into one conversastion while ignoring the others

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selective attention

11
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attention definition

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

12
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selective attention

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ability to choose to focus on only one stimuli

13
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divided attn

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focusing on two stimuli

14
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attentional capture

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rapid shift in attn (loud noise)

15
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visual scanning

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eye movements

16
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interfenence

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red being written in green

17
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facilitation

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red being written in red

18
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central vision

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area we’re looking nat

19
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peripheral vision

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sides

20
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bottom up factors

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physical characteristics

21
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stimulus salience

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physical properties of stimulus (color, brightness)

22
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covert attention

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shift attn w/o eye movement

23
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posner et al. experiment

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arrow pointing attn activity

24
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inattentional blindness

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failure to notice a stimuli in plain site

25
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change blindness

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failure to notice a change

26
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balint’s syndrome

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attentional shifting problems

27
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simultanagnosia

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can’t fixate the visual field as a whole

28
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oculomotor apraxia

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difficulty fixating the eyes

29
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optic ataxia

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can’t use vision to move hand to specific object

30
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attentuator

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

31
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dictionary unit

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contains words stored in memory each with different threasholds