What’s on the Attention poster
A 3-row table: Model · Filter sits · Problem.
Models of selective auditory attention.
- Broadbent — Early — before meaning — Cannot explain hearing your own name
- Treisman — Attenuation, not blocking — Unattended is weakened, not lost
- Deutsch & Deutsch — Late — after meaning — Requires processing everything
Attenuation is the most widely accepted: unattended channels are turned down rather than switched off, so salient words still get through.
Questions about the Attention poster
- What’s on the Attention (Cognitive) poster?
- A 3-row table: Model · Filter sits · Problem. Models of selective auditory attention. Broadbent — Early — before meaning — Cannot explain hearing your own name; Treisman — Attenuation, not blocking — Unattended is weakened, not lost; Deutsch & Deutsch — Late — after meaning — Requires processing everything. Attenuation is the most widely accepted: unattended channels are turned down rather than switched off, so salient words still get through.
- Who is the Attention (Cognitive) poster for?
- Attention (Cognitive) belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cognitive can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Attention (Cognitive) poster?
- The cocktail party effect is the finding every model has to explain. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Attention (Cognitive) belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Attention (Cognitive)?
- Cognitive Load, Decision Making and Dual Process Theory sit alongside Attention (Cognitive) in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cognitive LoadDecision MakingDual Process Theory
- Is the Attention (Cognitive) poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Attention (Cognitive) downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Attention (Cognitive) poster print at?
- Attention (Cognitive) is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Attention (Cognitive) loses nothing.Printing guide
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