Chapter 4 Quiz

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

Dichotic listening occurs when:

different messages are presented to the left and right ears.

Automatic processing occurs when:

tasks are well-practiced.

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

the color and the name differed.

Suppose you are in your kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you are not paying attention to the TV, you "suddenly" remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is best predicted by which of the following models of attention?

Late selection

Illusory conjunctions are:

combinations of features from different stimuli.

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:

in the consistent-mapping condition

In the flanker compatibility procedure, flanker stimuli and target stimuli must necessarily differ in terms of:

location.

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.

In Simons and Chabris's "change blindness" experiment, participants watch a film of people playing basketball. Many participants failed to report that that a woman carrying an umbrella walked through because the:

participants were counting the number of ball passes.