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18 Cards in this Set
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Define Attention: |
A concentration of mental activity in whichcertain kinds of perceptual information areselected for further processing, while otherinterfering stimuli are excluded (Shapiro 1994)
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What is Dichotic Listening & Shadowing? |
participant wears earphones a different message is presented to each ear participant instructed to attend to one message andignore other message participant repeats attended message word-by-wordas it is presented (shadowing) information is presented rapidly shadowing is demanding, demands concentration, leaves few resources available to process nonattended message |
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Describe the Filter Theory: |
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What is the Cocktail Party Effect? |
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What is the Attenuation Model? |
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Attenuator vs Filter Model: |
Attention operates like an attenuator
- Filter model: on-off switch Allows (partial) processing of multiple messages - Filter model: 1 message only Allows many kinds of analyses of all messages(physical, linguistic, semantic) - Filter model: physical only |
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What are Late Selection Models? |
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What are Capacity Models? |
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Describe the problems of the Capacity Model: |
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What is the Schema Theory? |
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What is Inattentional Blindness? |
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What is Change Blindness: |
The inability to detect changes to an object or scene. |
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Explain what the Stroop Interference Effect is: |
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Describe Automatic Processing: |
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Describe Controlled Processing: |
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What is Automaticity? |
not an all-or-none phenomenon
increases with practice on task Shiffrin & Schneider (1977) after extensive practice (2000+ trials) on varied mapping, participants performed as well as on consistent mapping |
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What is Feature Integration Theory? |
When perceiving a stimulus, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing. |
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What is Dual Task Performance? |
A dual-task paradigm is a procedure in experimental (neuro)psychology that requires an individual to perform two tasks simultaneously, in order to compare performance with single-task conditions.
Hirst et al. (1980) showed that participants learned to combine tasks. |