Cognitive Psychology- Attention (COGSCI 1B) Exam 2024 Q&A

Cognitive Psychology- Attention (COGSCI 1B) Exam 2024 Q&A Attention - CORRECT ANSWER-The ability to focus on specific stimuli or locations Selective Attention - CORRECT ANSWER-the focusing of attention on a specific location, object, or message Overt Attention - CORRECT ANSWER-attention that involves looking directly at the attended object Covert Attention - CORRECT ANSWER-attention is shifted without moving eyes; peripheral attention Divided attention - CORRECT ANSWER-attending to two or more things at once William James - CORRECT ANSWER-found that we focus on some things while excluding others Dichotic listening - CORRECT ANSWER-different messages are presented in two different ears Colin Cherry - CORRECT ANSWER-name of the researcher who had participants listen to an attended message and an unattended message. When asked what the contents of the unattended message was, they could not recall the contents of the message showed that listeners can only attend to just one message - CORRECT ANSWER-What was the conclusion to the dichotic listening task? Broadbent - CORRECT ANSWER-name of the researcher who developed early filter model early filter model - CORRECT ANSWER-think of a bottleneck; the filter only allows certain information through for further processing Sensory memory - CORRECT ANSWER-holds all of the incoming info for a fraction of a second Filter - CORRECT ANSWER-identifies the attended message based on the physical characteristics Detector - CORRECT ANSWER-processes information to determine higher level thinking characteristics of the message, such as mea