Chapter 3 attention and consciousness Flashcards
What is attention?
Concentration of our mental activity because we want to focus on other things and toning out the other things
What is top-down processing?
Consciously choosing what you focus on something specific
what is bottom up processing?
Something in the environment takes our focus like a loud noise
what is divided attention
Trying to pay attention to two or more simultaneous stimuli your speed and accuracy will suffer
What is multitasking?
Trying to accomplish two more tests, the same time
What is in intentional blindness?
When you fail to notice a new object appear
what are task switching delays?
The time it takes to switch between tasks and dust, we make slower work and more errors during these transitions
what is selective attention?
Paying attention to certain kinds of information while ignoring other ongoing information
what is the dichotic listening tasks?
One message played and left ear one in the right ear shadow of the message people noticed little about unintended messages
What is your working memory capacity?
The brief immediate memory of material that we are currently processing
What is the Stroop task?
Name the color of a set of words, name the ink color, not the printed color
What is the kind of behavioral approach?
psychological problems arise from inappropriate thinking, cognitive factors, and learning behavioral factors
what is the visual search task?
find a target in the visual display with numerous distractors
what are Socratic eye movements?
Little jumps of the eye bringing the center of the retina over the words being red
What is fixation?
The period between two eye movements for your visual system, pauses briefly in order to require information which is required for the written test
what is perceptual span?
The number of letters and spaces we perceived during a time
What is parceptual preview?
The idea that readers access information of upcoming words, even though we are currently fixing on the previous word
What is regressions?
Move your eye backwards to materials earlier in the sentence
What is the orienting attention network?
The part of the brain responsible for the attention that is required for a visual search in which you shift your attention to various spatial
what is the parietal lobe?
Part of the brain that helps your senses of touch and assembled input from your other senses into a form you can see
what is unilateral spatial neglect?
A person ignores the information that is part of their visual field
what is the executive attention network?
responsible for the kind of attention we use when the past focuses on conflict resolution
Attention used to focus on conflict resolution
What is the bottleneck theory?
narrow passageway information either passes through the bottleneck or is lost
It is too simple, not just one phase of attention processing
what is the broadbent’s model
Series of information processing channels
Sensory buffer process
Decision is made to limit processing to a single stream. Everything else is blocked out.
