Selective Attention

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Attenuation theory of attention

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Model of selective attention that proposes that selection occurs in two stages. Attenuator analyzes and lets through both messages but unattended one at a lower strength

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Automatic processing

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Processing that occurs automatically without the person intending to do it and that also uses few cognitive resources. It is associated with easy or well-practised tasks.

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Bottleneck model

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model of attention that proposes that incoming information is restricted at some point in processing, so only a part of information gets to consciousness.

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Change blindness

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Difficulty in detecting changes in similar but slightly different scenes that are presented one after another.

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Cocktail party effect

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The phenomenon that occurs when a person is focussing on one piece of information, another message from another source enters consciousness.

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Divided attention

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the ability to carry out or pay attention to two different tasks simultaneously.

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Early section model

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model of attention that explains selective attention by early filtering out the unwanted messages.

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Inattentional blindness

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Not noticing something even though it is in the clear view, usually caused by failure to pay attention to the object or the place where the object is located

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Late selection model

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A model of selective attention that proposes that selection of stimuli for final processing does not occur until after the information in the message has been analyzed for meaning.

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Location-based attention

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model of attention that proposes that attention operates on whatever stimuli are at a particular location

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Object-based attention

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model of attention proposing that the enhancing effects of attention can be located on a particular object.

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Selective attention

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The ability to focus on one message and ignore all others

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Stroop effect

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An effect studied using a task in which a person is instructed to respond to one aspect of stimulus, such as the colour of the word and ignore the other aspect, such as what the word spells, this refers to the fact that people find this task difficult when the colour of the words differs from what the word spells.