Cognitive psychology attention
Which type of attention involves focusing on a particular stimuli while ignoring others?
Selective attention
Who developed the concept of 'dichotic listening' to study attention?
Donald Broadbent
What is the capacity of short-term memory according to George Miller's famous study?
5-7 items
What is the process in which information is selected for further processing in the brain?
Attention
Who proposed the 'cocktail party effect' as a demonstration of selective attention?
Colin Cherry
Which theory of attention suggests that we have limited cognitive resources to devote to tasks?
Resource theory
What is the phenomenon where people fail to see an unexpected stimulus in their visual field?
Inattentional blindness
The Stroop effect demonstrates the interference between what two processes?
Attention and memory
Which area of the brain is often associated with selective attention?
Prefrontal cortex
The 'multimodal integration theory' suggests that attention is needed for integrating different types of what?
Sensory information