Chapter 5

Achieves and maintains alert state; Ready to detect

• Alerting system

• Orienting system

• Executive system

Controls voluntary actions; Can be use to voluntarily suppress automatic actions

• Executive system

• Alerting system

• Orienting system

“Moves” attention; Disengages, Shifts, and reengages attentional focus

• Executive system

• Alerting system

• Orienting system

The tendency to produce the same
response over and over when the task requires a change in
response

______ attention allows
you to bind things
together

_____ attention allows you to
detect features but not bind
them.

◦ “Warms up” a particular detector
◦ Lowers the threshold for the repeating items
◦ Does not involve effort

Describes what:

• Expectation Priming

• Repetition Priming

attention refers to the skill of performing multiple
tasks simultaneously.

As a task becomes more practiced, it requires _____cognitive
resources

• Fewer

• More

If a participant is asked to perform two activities at the same time, the performance will be
improved if

• the two activities are highly similar, drawing on the same task-specific resources.

• both activities require large amounts of task-general resources

• neither activity involves verbal processing.

• the two activities are highly dissimilar, drawing on different task-specific resources.