UNIT 9 & 10

Question 1

mental selection

Answer 1

to concentrate on specific features

Question 2

mental effort

Answer 2

trying to be successful on difficult non-automatic tasks

Question 3

automatization

Answer 3

skill becomes a routine with little or any conscious effort required

Question 4

mental perseverance

Answer 4

finished prolonged tasks

Question 5

overt attention

Answer 5

match between orientation of attention and orientation of receptors

Question 6

cover attention

Answer 6

orientation of attention and receptors differ

Question 7

cocktail party effect

Answer 7

brain’s ability to focus on one stimulus and filter the other

Question 8

dual task paradigm

Answer 8

by doing 2 attention-demanding tasks at the same time the performance is worse

Question 9

arousal

Answer 9

one form of dividing attention, physiological activation
-easy tasks higher levels, difficult tasks lower

Question 10

wicken’s multiple resource model

Answer 10

we can differentiate many resopurces of attention becauise attention is composed by many

Question 11

go/no go task

Answer 11

ability to inhibit automatic responses

Question 12

eye fixations

Answer 12

short periods of picking visual information

Question 13

saccadic eye movements

Answer 13

periods where picking up visual information is suppressed

Question 14

spatial attention

Answer 14

highlight things at particular location

Question 15

feature-based attention

Answer 15

highlight feature of whole scene

Question 16

inattentional blindness

Answer 16

stimulus not perceived, even when looking at it

Question 17

change blindness

Answer 17

cannot detect a change in the scene