attention assignment
PSY 348 Cognition
Winter 2020
Attention In-Class Activity
Due Monday, 2/3
“Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence” (James, 1890, pp. 403–404).
Instructions:
For this assignment, watch the videos and define the terms on the following list. Definitions should include information provided in the videos we watched in class (listed below). You will hand in your assignment on D2L.
1) Overt Attention
2) Covert Attention
3) McGurk Effect
4) Dichotic listening
5) Shadowing task
6) Selective attention
7) Divided attention
8) Selective inattention
9) Inattentional blindness
10) Change blindness
11) Early selection theory
12) Late selection theory
13) Attenuation theory
14) Attentional spotlight/spotlight model of attention
15) Resource model of attention
The Color-Changing Card Trick:
McGurk Effect:
Divided attention, selective attention, inattentional blindness, & change blindness
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/executive-systems-of-the-brain/attention-language-lesson/v/divided-selective-attention-inattentional-change-blindness
Theories of selective attention
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/executive-systems-of-the-brain/attention-language-lesson/v/selective-attention
The spotlight model of attention and our ability to multitask
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/processing-the-environment/attention-language/v/the-spotlight-model-of-attention-and-our-ability-to-multitask
Work of Daniel Simon and Daniel Levin on change blindness:
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUA-CpKaFCCV2Uz__qNJZw
Neuroscience of attention and EEG – TED Talk:
Consciousness: Crash Course Psychology #8
References:
James, W. (1890). The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.