Divided Attention In Psychology
In psychology, there are two types of attention: selective attention and divided attention. Divided attention is the state of paying attention to more than one stimulus or to a stimulus rather than focusing on one certain action or thing. Where selective attention on the other hand can be described as a type of attention which involves focusing on a specific part of a scene while ignoring other aspects. We can multitask or scan as long as anything we are doing is not too complicated or requires a rapid shift in attentional focus.
Selective activity involves focusing on one certain thing and ignoring others, giving something specific all of your focus. This could be conscious (as when you would choose to tune into something interest, such as your favorite TV show), or unconscious (as where in a field of all grass, a …show more content…
While cooking, you may divide your attention to numerous things (chopping an onion, cooking baked potatoes in the oven, working on another dish), but a sudden spill may distract you from messing up the whole meal. The bottleneck model is based on three theories that are used for gauging attention. Given an example, that a limited-capacity exists (a bottleneck of an item at once), human information processing slows down at a certain extent. A bottleneck regulates the flow of consistency. The narrower the bottleneck, the less the rate of flow.
Some examples of bottleneck models are: Broadbent's, Treisman's, and Deutsch and Deutsch Models of Attention, because they give examples that we cannot consciously be present and attend to all of our sensory input at the exact time. This limited capacity for paying attention is therefore equivalent to a bottleneck and the models each try to explain how the information that flows through the bottleneck is
Selective activity involves focusing on one certain thing and ignoring others, giving something specific all of your focus. This could be conscious (as when you would choose to tune into something interest, such as your favorite TV show), or unconscious (as where in a field of all grass, a …show more content…
While cooking, you may divide your attention to numerous things (chopping an onion, cooking baked potatoes in the oven, working on another dish), but a sudden spill may distract you from messing up the whole meal. The bottleneck model is based on three theories that are used for gauging attention. Given an example, that a limited-capacity exists (a bottleneck of an item at once), human information processing slows down at a certain extent. A bottleneck regulates the flow of consistency. The narrower the bottleneck, the less the rate of flow.
Some examples of bottleneck models are: Broadbent's, Treisman's, and Deutsch and Deutsch Models of Attention, because they give examples that we cannot consciously be present and attend to all of our sensory input at the exact time. This limited capacity for paying attention is therefore equivalent to a bottleneck and the models each try to explain how the information that flows through the bottleneck is