Selective Attention

sensory deprivation

absence of normal levels of sensory stimuli; cannot take this for long periods of time, after a few days begin to compensate

cocktail party effect

at a party, choose 1 voice to listen to form the general babble

inattentional blindness/change blindness

by voluntarily or involuntarily attending to or ignoring certain aspects of information in our environment we can either be more likely to notice fine differences or to miss large differences in the stimuli

sensory overload

excessive stimulation, can lead to fatigue and mental confusion; try and block out things while focusing on whats important

selective attention

the focusing of attention on selected aspects of the environment and the blocking out of others

habituation

the process of gradually adapting to stimuli that do not change; our sensory systems are built to detect change