Cognitive Psychology: Test 1

Which statement about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is true?

Which statement about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is true?

According to the ____ theories of attention, people have a fixed amount of attentional capacity that they allocate to the perceived task requirements.​

attentional-resource

According to ____, all searches, whether conjunctive or feature, involve two stages. The first stage involves the analysis of features and the second involves combining features into objects.

feature-integration theory

Farah's (2000) research using faces, parts of faces, houses and parts of houses found that ____.

​face recognition involved primarily configurational processing

Ulric Neisser synthesized the early filter and the late filter models in part by proposing that there are two processes governing attention: ____.

​preattentive and attentive processes

Which view of perception suggests that stimuli may be richly informative and perceptual processes may be very complex?

​synthesis of bottom-up and top-down

The law of ____ states that we view any given visual array in a way that most simply organizes the different elements into a stable and coherent form.​

Pragnanz

Which model of selective attention suggests that instead of blocking out stimuli, the filter merely weakens the strength of all stimuli other than the target stimulus?

Treisman's attenuation model

Which hypothesis suggests that there are two distinct visual pathways in the brain; one pathway is important for identifying the object and the other for identifying the function of the object?​

What/How

Which short and thick photoreceptors work well in situations in which the light is bright?​

cones

In a ____ search, we must search for a combination of stimulus characteristics..​

conjunction

____ processing refers to cognitive processing that requires conscious control and effort that is performed one step at a time.

controlled

Verlys just picked up mail at her post office box and is standing at a table sorting it. Catalogs and junk mail get thrown away while important mail is placed in her bag. Unfortunately, she drops several important pieces of mail into the trash. This is best described as a(n) ____.

description error

Which color deficit is the result of a malfunction in one of the mechanism for color perception in which the person may have a difficult time distinguishing particular colors?

dichromacy

You are watching your favorite TV show when a friend enters the room and wants to engage you in conversation. You really want to watch your show, but know that you should attend to the conversation. You try to do both. This is an example of ____.

divided attention

Which strategy suggests that information is characterized by its relation to a well-known or prominent item?

landmark centered representation

____ refers to the process by which particular stimuli activate mental pathways that enhance the ability to process subsequent stimuli related to the initial stimuli in some way.

priming

____ refers to a severely impaired ability to recognize human faces.

prosopagnosia

When someone approaches us, we do not experience the person becoming larger as he or she comes closer, despite the fact that the retinal image is enlarging dramatically. This phenomenon is called ____ constancy.

size

Which perceptual deficit causes a person to have a difficult time navigating the everyday environment?

spatial agnosia