AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Selective Attention. The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus, as in the cocktail party effect (ability to attend selectively to only one voice among many).

Detailed explanation-2: -Selective attention: the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus. Also known as the cocktail party effect. Inattentional blindness: failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere.

Detailed explanation-3: -Selective attention refers to the processes that allow an individual to select and focus on particular input for further processing while simultaneously suppressing irrelevant or distracting information.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the alternative extreme, it has been proposed that con-scious awareness is fully determined by selective attention – that we are conscious only of the cur-rent contents of attention. A more moderate posi-tion is that attention modulates awareness, but we have some awareness of unattended stimuli.

Detailed explanation-5: -Selective attention is the process of directing our awareness to relevant stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli in the environment.