Psy 020 Week 2

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This cognitive process involves selecting some information for processing while inhibiting other information from receiving processing.

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What is attention?

Front 2

This term refers to the inability to attend to a objects in space or time when they are present in abundance.

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What is a failure of selection?

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If you failed to notice that a movie character's breakfast mysteriously changed from a waffle to a muffin, you would be exhibiting this cognitive phenomenon.

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What is change blindness?

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This term refers to a short period during which incoming information is not registered.

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What is an attentional blink?

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This term may be used to refer to the difficulty coordinating different responses to even the same sensory stimulus.

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What is response bottleneck?

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Often caused by damage to the right parietal lobe, this condition leads to the entire omission of half the visual field.

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What is hemispatial neglect?

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This is another term for top-down attention.

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What is endogenous attention?

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This is another term for bottom-up attention.

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What is exogenous attention?

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This process refers to one stimulus/response facilitating processing of a subsequent stimulus/response.

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What is priming?

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This term refers to the collective findings that in terms of attention, objects and their associated parts are selected together.

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What is object-based attention?

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Also known as Bálint's syndrome, this condition refers to the inability to process two things at once.

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What is simultanagnosia?

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Also known as a feature search trial, this type of trial involves a subject searching for an object among distractors differing by a single feature, usually not involving much attention.

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What is a disjunctive search trial?

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This type of trial requires attention, involving a subject searching for an object among distractors differeing in multiple modalities.

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What is a conjunctive search trial?

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This term refers to incorrect combinations of features made by participants when exposed to a search trial only briefly.

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What are illusory conjunctions?

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This theory seeks to explain all aspects of attention, citing the inability of the mind to process all inputs given to it.

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What is competition?

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This kind of selective attention typically acts on the contents of working memory and directs subsequent processing to achieve some goal.

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What is executive attention?

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Studies of Phineas Gage showed that this lobe is likely involved in executive attention.

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What is the frontal lobe connection?

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This hypothesis refers to the idea that every executive process is primarily mediated by the prefrontal cortex.

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What is the frontal executive hypothesis?

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This type of process can be initiated without intention.

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What is an automatic process?

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In this time-consuming phenomenon, the focus of attention is moved from one entity to another.

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What is switching attention?

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This performance measurement increases as two alternating tasks become more similar.

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What is switching cost?

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This classic test showed the involvement of executive attention in inhibition of response.

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What is the go/no-go experiment?

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This executive task involves assessing one's performance on a task while the task is being performed.

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What is monitoring?

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Unlike neuroimaging, this experimental method can establish correlations, but is harder to implement for ethical and practical reasons.

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What is neuropsychology?

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Unlike neuroimaging, this experimental technique can establish correlations, but for practical and ethical reasons, is harder to accomplish.

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What is neuropsychology?

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This model of attention involved an attentive stage and a preattentive stage.

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What is feature integration theory?

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This theory of attention involves an attentive stage and a preattentive stage.

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What is feature integration theory?

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This model of attention involves top-down modulation of the preattentive stage.

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What is the guided search model?