Quiz 5 - Chapter 4b

Eye tracking 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.

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

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

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

once processing had become automatic.

The notion that faster responding occurs when enhancement spreads within an object is called

same-object advantage.

During a visit to the local museum, you appreciate the incredible beauty of the paintings displayed on the wall. Your ability to see the paintings as complete pictures rather than individual, disconnected dots of color, texture, and location is because of a process called _______.

binding.

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.

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

task cueing.