EXP 3603 quiz 4

has high stimulus salience

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

it takes a strong signal to cause activation.

A high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that

The word 'platypus'

According to Treisman's attenuation model, which of the following would you expect to have the highest threshold for most people?

fixation

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

fovea or fovea

in the middle of the retina is a small dimple called the _________ centralis. It is the center of the eye'ssharpest vision and the location of most color perception. "A thin layer (about 0.5 to 0.1mm thick) of light receptor cells covers the inner surface of the choroid.

Broadbent's model is called the early selection model because

the filter eliminates the unattended information right at the beginning of the flow of information.

meaning

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

cocktail party effect

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

change

The difficulty we have in recognizing even an obvious alteration in a scene is called __________ blindness.

same-object advantage.

The notion that faster responding occurs when enhancement spreads within an object is called

dichotic listening

The technique where the participant's task is to focus on the message in one ear, called the attended ear, and to repeat what he or she is hearing out loud is known as:

overt

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

selective

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

high-saliency

When we search a scene, initial fixations are most likely to occur on __________ areas.

Inattentional blindness

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

binding

Which of the following is the process by which features such as color, form motion, and location are combined to create our perception of a coherent object?

the color and the name differed.

With the Stroop effect, you would expect to find longest response times when

are determined primarily by the task.

Eye tracking studies investigating attention as we carry out actions such as making a peanut butter sandwich found that a person's eye movements