Human Cognition Chapter 4

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Divided attention:

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the ways in which a cognitive processor allocates cognitive resources to two or more tasks that are carried out simultaneously

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Selective attention:

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the focusing of cognitive resources on one or a small number of tasks to the exclusion of others

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Dichotic listening task:

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A task in which a person hears two or more different, specially recorded messages over earphones and is asked to attend to one of them

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Filter theory:

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a theory of attention proposing that information that exceeds the capacity of a processor to process at any given time is blocked from further processing

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Attenuation theory:

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a model of attention in which unattended perceptual events are transmitted in weakened form but not blocked completely before being processed for meaning

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Priming:

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the facilitation in responding to one stimulus as a function or prior exposure to another stimulus

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Late-selection theory:

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a model of attention in which all perceptual messages, whether attended or not, are processed for some meaning

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Schema theory:

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a theory of attention that claims unattended information is never perceived

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Inattentional blindness:

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the phenomenon of not perceiving a stimulus that might be literally right in front of you, unless you are paying attention to it

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Event-related potential (ERP):

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an electrical recording technique to measure the response of the brain to various stimulus events

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Attention hypothesis of automatization:

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the proposal that attention is needed during a learning phase of a new task

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Psychological refractory period (PRP):

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an interval of time following presentation of a first stimulus during which a person cannot respond to a second stimulus, presumably because of a central bottleneck in attentional processing

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Dual-task performance:

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an experimental paradigm involving presentation of two tasks for a person to work on simultaneously