Attenuation Model of Attention - ANSWER Anne Treisman's model of selective attention that proposes that selection occurs in two stages. In the first stage, an attenuator analyzes the incoming message and lets through the attended message—and also the unattended message, but at a lower (attenuated...
, COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 4:
GOLDSTEIN 5TH EDITION EXAM
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Attention - ANSWER Focusing on specific features, objects, or locations or on certain
thoughts or activities.
Attention Capture - ANSWER a rapid shifting of attention, usually caused by a stimulus
such as a loud noise, bright light, or sudden movement .
Attenuation Model of Attention - ANSWER Anne Treisman's model of selective attention
that proposes that selection occurs in two stages. In the first stage, an attenuator
analyzes the incoming message and lets through the attended message—and also the
unattended message, but at a lower (attenuated) strength.
Attenuator - ANSWER In Treisman's model of selective attention, the attenuator
analyzes the incoming message in terms of physical characteristics, language, and
meaning. Attended messages pass through the attenuator at full strength, and
unattended messages pass though with reduced strength.
Automatic Processing - ANSWER Processing that occurs automatically, without the
person intending to do it, and that also uses few cognitive resources. Automatic
processing is associated with easy or well-practiced tasks.
Balint's Syndrome - ANSWER A condition caused by brain damage in which a person
has difficulty focusing attention on individual objects.
Binding - ANSWER process by which features such as color, form, motion, and location
are combined to create our perception of a coherent object.
Binding Problem - ANSWER problem of explaining how an object's individual features
become bound together. Addressed by Anne Treisman's feature integration theory.
Conjunction Search - ANSWER searching among distractors for a target that involves a
combination of features, such as "horizontal" and "green".
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