Attention

What does attention seek to do?

• To do something

• To get people to listen to you

• It is goal directed / achieve something

• Learning something

What is the spotlight metaphor?

• Where you use your torch light to scan for something

• Searching for attention with your eyes moving in the same direction as you want

• A filter for your eyes to clearly focus on

• It is to control the light intensity of your eyes

Attention is...

• Limited

• Unlimited

• Infinite

• beyond control

Can attention be split?

• Yes and you can listen to all of them at once while retaining everything

• No and you cant listen to everything that happens around you

• No, thats why you can only listen to one person at a time

• Yes but you can only listen to one person at a time

What was Broadbent modern attention research about?

• Attention is heard, but your brain picks the most important

• Hearing more than one instructions at the same time leads to you listening to one only

• How behaviour shapes what we listen to

• Researching in attention span and its capacities

Is it possible to recognize what 2 voices say at the same time?

• No, has to be one by one

• Yes because you have 2 ears

• Yes, but requires many repetitions

What was the Cocktail-party problem (Cherry) experiment about?

• Whether it is possible to hear information in both ears individually

• Whether it is possible to hear information in both ears at different times

• Whether the ear can hear information in the same ear with voices simultaneously

• Whether it is possible to hear information in both ears at the same time

Conclusion of the Cherry experiment were?

• Hard to hear two messages that arent separated by physical ques, opposite if there are and we can only attend to one message and know little about the other

• Easy to hear two messages that arent seperated by physical ques, opposite if there are and we can attend to more than one message at a time

• Hard to hear just one message if they arent seperated by physical ques, opposite if there are and only can attend to two or more messages at a time

• Hard to hear any messages at all if there are no physical ques, opposite if there are and only can attend to messages with physical ques in place

What theory is this?

• Two-factor theory

• James-Lange theory

• Broadbent filter theory

• Classical conditioning

How does the Broadbent theory work?

• The information goes into your selective filter, picking out what information is relevant while ignoring the irrelevant, goes into your limited capacity channel to get assessed, and lastly goes into your short term memory

• The information goes into your selective filter, picking out what information is relevant while ignoring the irrelevant, goes into your short term memory, and lastly assess the meaning in the limited capacity channel.

• The information goes into your limited capacity channel to be assessed the meaning, later goes into your selective filter picking out what information is relevant while ignoring the irrelevant, and lastly goes into your short term memory.

• The information goes into your short term memory, selective filter picks what information is relevant, while ignoring the irrelevant, and lastly assesses the meaning in limited capacity channel