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1
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Our ability to direct our awareness to a single aspect of an external stimulus

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Attention

2
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William James described attention as having three aspects. WHat are they?

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Focus, Fringe, Margin

3
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Basic info enters sensory buffer, mind selects something to focus on, other information decays is the process of selective attention as described by…

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Broadbent

4
Q

Dichotic listening test

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two different words put into the two different sides of headphones

5
Q

Shadowing

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repeating words instantly, no memory component

6
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Cocktail party effect

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You can drown out stimuli around you but you can tune in and out

7
Q

Attenuated information, or information that is reduced in intensity, is a part of which model of attention?

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Treisman

8
Q

Direct attention cause people to miss things in the background

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Inattentional Blindness

9
Q

Failure to notice changes in everyday life

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change blindness

10
Q

People are asked to watch a ball as it is tossed by a group of four. A person in a gorilla suit walks through but many people don’t see it. What is this?

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Inattentional blindness

11
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Describe the difference between simultaneous and sequential attention

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Simultaneous attention is where we are paying attention to two + things at once whereas sequential is where we may switch back and forth

12
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A model that proposed we have a certain amount of attention that we allocate to task was proposed by who?

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Daniel Kahneman

13
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Controlled versus automatic processing

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controlled takes conscious focus whereas automatic is like on autopilot

14
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Not paying close attention to details, trouble sustaining attention on tasks, easily distracted. What ADHD type>

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Predominently inattentive

15
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what are the three subtyoes of ADHD

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Predominantly inattentive, Predominantly hyperactivity, combo