Types of Attention
The kind of attention/ attention task where you attempt to pay attention to simultaneous tasks/stimuli while responding appropriately
What is divided attention? (or divided attention task)
Suggests that we have a limited amount of information that we can pay attention to. It is now not considered a flexible enough theory.
What is Bottleneck Theory?
The effect that is in play where your brain subconsciously monitors for personally relevant information, even if you are focused on something else.
What is the Cocktail Effect?
When you fail to notice a stimulus/something because your attention is focused elsewhere.
What is change blindness?
What is focused attention?
Suggests we frequently use a kind of attention between distributed attention and focused attention.
What is Feature-Integration Theory?
The effect in play when there is a delay in reaction time when the brain processes conflicting information.
What is the Stroop Effect?
When you don't notice a change in environment/visual scene despite the stimulus being clearly placed/there.
What is change blindness?
The ability to process multiple things at the same time automatically (in parallel)
What is distributed attention?
The theory that would explain this situation: when you're looking for a short yellow pencil among a bunch of pencils. You may spot the yellow pencil, but you need to combine that with other features to identify it as the yellow pencil you're looking for.
What is the Feature-Integration Theory?
The effect in play when emotionally significant words grab your attention and slow down your response times in a color-naming task.
What is Emotional Stroop Effect?
The kind of attention you exercise when (for example) you're watching your favorite TV show at home. Someone is trying to talk to you, but you don’t register what they’re saying because your attention is locked on the show.
What is selective attention?
Effect that states people can usually locate an isolated feature more quickly than a combined feature.
If asked to count ___ amount of stars and ___ amount of X's that flash on your screen at the same time, the kind of attention exercised is.
What is divided attention?
Effect where people can usually find a feature that is present faster than a feature that is absent.