Attention

Multi-tasking and Observation demonstrated the concept that attention is limited. After observing a strange, it was clear that people could not focus their attentions on more than one tasks at a time. In our lecture the concepts the Capacity Theory and the Dual Task was discussed about. The Capacity Theory is the idea that cognitive resources are divided amongst the task an individual pays attention to. In other words, our brain has limited attention to what we can focus to. This theory…

continue to study and discover how it works. J Ripley Stroop developed a test called the Stroop effect to help measure how well a person’s selective attention works and brain processing speeds (Chudler, 2015). This test is used in screening people for dementia, schizophrenia, brain damage, stroke, and ADHD and helps determine aspects of attention and focus (Chudler, 2015). Humans are not equal in cognitive abilities thus any one test is not sufficient in determining human brainpower (Diamant,…

whether perception of feelings, thoughts or behaviour is conditional on conscious awareness. A considerable amount of literature support the notion that spatial attention is essential in order to process information (Besner, Risko & Sklair, 2005; McCann, Folk, & Johnston, 1992) In contrast, another major theory argues that spatial attention enhances the processing of information,…

concentration shields against distraction. The first reason is “undesired processing of the background is reduced”, and this means that if someone is engaged in an activity that causes for a high level of concentration it is unlikely that they will pay attention to things surrounding them. For example, if during a basketball game the score is tied and a player is fouled and sent to the free throw line, the pressure of the game is on the player shooting free throws, so he/she has a high…

Athlete’s attention will switch between attentional styles changing with the demands of their sport, although many athletes will have a preferred attentional style that forms part of your personality (Hodge, & McKenzie, 1999). For example dribbling in soccer and scanning for opponents would be the use of broad-external, when reacting to an opponent or passing quickly this would require switching to narrow-external (Hardy, 2006). Selective attention is a key attribute to have within…

The article entitled “Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events” discusses the theory of inattentional blindness. At its simplest level, inattentional blindness means that we do not always see what is in front of our eyes. Accordingly, experiments were set since the 1970’s to prove this hypothesis. Scientists agree on the fact that perception is the ability to consciously identify the things we see and the changes that occur around us, but according to the…

It is well known that when socializing it is expected of you to look straight ahead and pay attention to the person with eye contact. This norm is used to control people when they are talking to people, as a way of ensuring the said person is paying attention to the conversation. This week when I go to class or when anyone is talking to me I will do everything normally, except look at the person speaking. I will look up at the ceiling or some other fixed point in the room, focusing on it and not…

and Deutsch Models of Attention are all bottleneck models because they predict we cannot consciously attend to all of our sensory input at the same time. Kahneman however states that we are able to attend to more than one input at a time and is more concerned with capacity. Broadbent started with his work with air traffic controllers during the war, where a number of competing messages from departing and incoming aircraft were arriving continuously, all requiring attention. The air traffic…

These emotional stimuli can rapidly capture attention. EAB also occurs with the verbal stimuli, where the participants had to detect words printed in a specific color and the emotionally arousing words and distractor words had produced an attentional blink (AB) when the color target occurred soon after…

suggested to be prioritized, capturing attention automatically; however, many hypotheses that perceptual attention is limited in its capacity, and strict endogenous allocation of cognitive resources occur in a focused attentional state (source, year). In a visual search task, this can be stimulated by the use of an informative central cue that endogenously directs attention to a localised spot, bringing observer out of a diffused state, thus the focused attention can endogenously priorities…