Ch4
Proponents of multitasking would note ________ to support their opinion, whereas opponents of multitasking would point to ________ to justify their perspective.
divided attention; distraction
Each time you briefly pause on one face, you are making a(n) ______________.
fixation
Placing tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice into a blender and turning it on to produce salsa is similar to which of the following?
the focused attention stage of feature integration theory
Which of the following attention model components produces two levels of output?
Treisman's attenuator
Which of the following is most closely associated with Treisman's attenuation theory of selective attention?
Dictionary unit
saccadic eye movement is a
a rapid, jerky movement from one fixation to the next
Eye tracking studies investigating attention as we carry out actions such as making a peanut butter sandwich shows that a person's eye movements
are determined primarily by the task
The ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli is called
cocktail party effect
The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the __________ of words.
meaning
In Schneider and Shiffrin's experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate whether a target stimulus was present in a series of rapidly presented "frames," divided attention was easier
once processing had become automatic