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
