Attention

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According to your textbook, perception goes beyond the simple receipt of sensory information. It is involved in many different cognitive skills. Which of the following is NOT one of those skills as noted by the chapter? Answering questions Communicating with other people Solving problems Experiencing neuromodulation

Experiencing neuromodulation

The distribution of attention among two or more tasks is known as selective attention divergent tasking divided attention dual attention

divded attention

You look at a rope coiled on a beach and are able to perceive it as a single strand because of the law of good continuation. good figure. simplicity. familiarity.

good continuation.

Scene schema is knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene. rapid movements of the eyes from one place to another in a scene. short pauses of the eyes on points of interest in a scene. how attention is distributed throughout a static scene.

knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene.

With the Stroop effect, you would expect to find longest response times when the color and the name differed. the shape and the name matched. the shape and the name differed. the color and the name matched.

the color and the name differed.

Speech segmentation is defined as creating a sentence from a series of spoken words. organizing the sounds of speech into individual words. ignoring the spaces between the spoken words of a sentence. recognizing a few words out of many when hearing a largely unfamiliar language.

organizing the sounds of speech into individual words.

In the text's use of the Olympic Rings example, which Gestalt law contributes to the correct perception of five interlocking circles rather than nine separate segments? Common fate Simplicity Figure-ground Contiguity

Simplicity

According to Treisman's attenuation model, which of the following would you expect to have the highest threshold for most people? The word "money" Their child's first name The word "platypus" The word "home"

The word "platypus"

Evidence for the role of top-down processing in perception is shown by which of the following examples? When someone can easily select a target that has a feature distinct from distracters When someone cannot read an illegible word in a written sentence When someone easily identifies an object even though that object is unexpected in that context (e.g., identifying a telephone inside a refrigerator) When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception

When someone accurately identifies a word in a song on a radio broadcast despite static interfering with reception

Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany? Wilhelm Wundt Sigmund Freud Ivan Pavlov Erik Erikson

Wilhelm Wundt

The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called memory consolidation. behaviorism. cognitive psychology. introspection.

cognitive psychology

If you are folding towels while watching television, you may find that you don't have to pay much attention to the act of folding while keeping up with the storyline on the TV show. Folding the towels would be an example of a(n) ________ task. filtered attenuated high-load low-load

low-load

The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the __________ of words. color font size meaning

meaning

The main difference between early and late selection models of attention is that in late selection models, selection of stimuli for final processing doesn't occur until the information is analyzed for physical characteristics location meaning modality

meaning

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 cocktail party low load divided

selective

Strayer and Johnston's (2001) experiment involving simulated driving and the use of "hands-free" versus "handheld" cell phones found that driving performance was impaired less with the hands-free phones than with the handheld phones. talking on either kind of phone impairs driving performance significantly and to the same extent. divided attention (driving and talking on the phone) did not affect performance. driving performance was impaired only with the handheld cell phones.

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

According to your text, the ability to divide attention depends on all of the following EXCEPT practice. the difficulty of the tasks. task cueing. the type of processing being used.

task cueing.


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