Attention
What is attention?
The ability to focus on specific information, tasks, or stimuli while ignoring others.
What is inattentionial blindness?
A failure to detect something clearly in your vision field because your attention was focused elsewhere.
What is Change Blindness?
A failure to detect differences in your vision field when scenes are disrupted by a visual disturbance.
What is multitasking
Trying to do multiple tasks at once.
What is a Population and a Sample?
Population is a big or small group of more than 1 person. Sample is a subset of the population.
What are the two phenomena that we went over in class that occur due to limitations in attention?
Inattentional Blindness and Change Blindness
Which is the example of inattentional blindness? Failing to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking in the scene or failing to notice. picture on the wall in the room has been replaced with a different one after looking away?
Failing to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking through a scene.
What is an example of change blindness? A person giving you direction, but you didn't notice them changing shirts during a brief interruption or when you are focused reading a book and you didn't notice a person entering the room or waiving at you when they are in your line of sight?
A person giving you direction, but you didn't notice them changing shirts during a brief interruption.
Does Multitasking actually work?
No, because it is not effective or efficient.
What are the 5 types of biases?
Conformation Bias, Post-Hoc Fallacy, Hindsight Bias, Availability Heuristic, Dunning-Kruger Effect
What is selective attention?
The process of focusing on a particular stimulus or task while ignoring other distractions in the environment.
What are the three conditions that are needed in order for inattentional blindness to occur?
High demand of attention, if ignored elements are alike, or if there is a high level of distraction.
When does change blindness occur?
When someone fails to notice a change in a visual scene because their attention is not directed to the specific area of change.
What is so bad about heavy multitasking?
It divides your attention, leading to more mistakes, lower productivity, and mental fatigue.
What are the three types of validity?
Construct, Internal, and External