Quiz 3

Experiments that support the idea of early selection involve

high-loaded tasks

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

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

Strayer and Johnston's (2001) experiment involving simulated driving and the use of "hands-free" vs. "handheld" cell phones found that

Correct talking on either kind of phone impairs driving performance significantly and to the same extent.

Suppose twin teenagers are vying for their mother's attention. The mother is trying to pay attention to one of her daughters, though both girls are talking (one about her boyfriend, one about a school project). According to the operating characteristics of Treisman's attenuator, it is most likely the attenuator is analyzing the incoming messages in terms of

Meaning

A dynamic environment, in which objects move throughout a scene, is likely to invoke ____ attention.

Object-based

In Klin and coworkers' research that investigated autistic reactions to the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, autistic people primarily attended to ____ in the scene.

Objects

The use of an eye tracker can help reveal the shifting of one's _____ attention.

Overt

Illusory conjunctions are

combinations of features from different stimuli.

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

has high stimulus salience

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

were determined primarily by the task.