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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM 

McGurk Effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM

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/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoUA-CpKaFCCV2Uz__qNJZw

Neuroscience of attention and EEG – TED Talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/mehdi_ordikhani_seyedlar_what_happens_in_your_brain_when_you_pay_attention

Consciousness: Crash Course Psychology #8

https://youtu.be/jReX7qKU2yc

References:

James, W. (1890). The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.