Basic Concepts
This psychological process allows people to focus on certain stimuli while ignoring others.
What is attention?
This type of attention involves focusing on relevant information while ignoring distractions.
What is selective attention?
This theory proposes that information is selected early, based on physical characteristics such as pitch, volume, or location
What is Broadbent's Filter Theory?
This refers to the concept that attention selects specific stimuli or information channels for further processing
What is attention as a filter?
Attention is crucial for many aspects, including this area
What is daily life, child development, or learning and thinking?
Described attention as the mind taking possession of one particular experience from several simultaneously occurring instances
Who is William James?
This type of attention allows a person to maintain focus on a task for an extended period.
What is sustained attention?
In Broadbent’s theory, this refers to the limited point through which only one information channel can pass for further processing
What is a single-channel bottleneck?
This refers to attention as being a necessary but limited ______, and enables information processing
What is a (computational) resource?
This model, along with Broadbent’s Filter Model, further refined how attention selects and processes information.
What is Treisman's Feature Integration Model?
Attention is compared to this writing tool because it makes important information stand out while reducing the visibility of less important information.
What is a highlighter?
This type of attention involves attempting to focus on two or more tasks or sources of information.
What is divided attention?
Broadbent’s theory is classified as this type of selection model because filtering occurs before the information is fully interpreted (in regards to its meaning)
What is an early-selection model?
This describes the limited amount of information the brain can process at any given time
What is a attentional bottleneck?
This cognitive process is essential because it helps people select relevant information, support memory and learning, make decisions, regulate behavior, and respond appropriately to their environment
What is attention?
This refers to the fact that people can process only a limited amount of information at one time.
What is limited attentional capacity?
This type of attention involves planning, shifting focus, resolving conflicts, and controlling behavior.
What is executive attention?
This model describes attention as a limited pool of cognitive resources that are distributed according to task demands
What is Kahneman’s Capacity Model?
According to studies, our attention is consistently limited by these concepts.
What is capacity and duration?
This may predispose individuals to differences in attentional or working memory capacity
This occurs when the amount of information exceeds the brain’s available processing capacity.
What is cognitive overload?
This automatic shift of attention occurs when a person notices a sudden, unexpected, or potentially important stimulus.
What is the orienting reflex?
According to Kahneman, attention is influenced by persistent tendencies, temporary motivations, and _______?
What is arousal or alertness levels?
Neuroscientific research indicates that attention can enhance or inhibit these stimuli.
What is attended and unattended stimuli?
Critics argue that 'attention' may be too broad a concept because it includes several different defintions and overlapping concepts and is therefore this
What is conceptually fragmented?