M9 Understanding Attention

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Attention is the brain function that allocates cognitive processing resources to focus on information or stimuli.

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Attention deals with how the brain mentally processes specific information present in the environment a person is experiencing through their senses.

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Forms of attention include selective, divided, focussed, and sustained attention.

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Attention can take the form of selective, divided, focussed, and sustained attention.

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Selective attention occurs when a person focuses on the most important sources of input.

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Selective attention is monitoring several sources of input but focusing on the source(s) that seem more important.

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Cognitive processing resources are used to focus on information or stimuli.

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Attention allocates cognitive processing resources to focus on information or stimuli.

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Selective attention helps prioritize important information sources.

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Selective attention focuses on the most important sources of input.

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Divided attention allows handling multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Divided attention is required when doing more than one thing at the same time.

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Perception is defined as the process of assembling sensations into a usable mental representation of the world.

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It creates a mental model of our environment.

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The image formed on the retina is inverted and two-dimensional, yet we perceive the world upright and in three dimensions.

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Our brain corrects the inverted image.

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Turning your head results in a changing pattern of images, but perception maintains a stable environment.

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Perception provides stability despite changing visuals.

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Example of Perception: Two people looking at a number from different angles, seeing it as 6 and 9.

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Different perspectives can lead to different interpretations.