cognitive processes exam 2

The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the __________ of words.

meaning

A patient with which of the following disorders would have trouble combining features such as color, form motion, and location into the perception of a coherent object?

Balint's Syndrome

Which of the following options would NOT be an important factor in automatic processing?

Close attention

Which of the following is most closely associated with Treisman's attenuation theory of selective attention?

Dictionary Unit

Taking clay and sand to create bricks, which are then used to build modular wall panels, which are then assembled to construct tall buildings, is similar to which of the following neural concepts?

Hierarchical processing

The use of a machine that tracks the movement of one's eyes can help reveal the shifting of one's ________ attention.

overt

Which of the following illustrates how we can miss things even if they are clearly visible?

Inattentional blindness

__________ refers to attending to one thing while ignoring others; whereas _______ attention refers to paying attention to more than one thing at a time.

Selective; divided

The Posner cueing task we did in class provides evidence for what kind of attention?

Spatial/covert attention without eye movements

Anne Treisman's attenuator analyzes the incoming message in terms of all of the following EXCEPT

whether the perceptual load is low or high.

Which stage in Treisman's attenuation model has a threshold component?

The dictionary unit

Which of the following attention model components produces two levels of output?

Treisman's attenuator

The ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli is called

cocktail party effect.

Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listened to two different messages, one presented to each ear, found that people

could focus on one message and ignore the other one at the same time.

Which of the following best describes the result of attention in the context of perception?

enhancement

Research suggests that we are good at dividing our attention and that we should multi-task when doing everyday activities like driving.

false

Each time you briefly pause on one face, you are making a(n) ...

fixation

A bottom-up process is involved in fixating on an area of a scene that

has high stimulus salience

The "invisible gorilla" study conducted by Simons and Chabris (1999) demonstrates which of the following phenomenon?

inattentional blindness

Research on the use of cell phones while driving indicates that

the main effect of cell phone use on driving safety can be attributed to the fact that attention is used up by the cognitive task of talking on the phone.

As the ________ of a stimulus increases, ________ tends to ________.

salience; fixation; increase

When Sam listens to his girlfriend Susan in the restaurant and ignores other people's conversations, he is engaged in the process of __________ attention.

selective