Ch4

Proponents of multitasking would note ________ to support their opinion, whereas opponents of multitasking would point to ________ to justify their perspective.

divided attention; distraction

Each time you briefly pause on one face, you are making a(n) ______________.

fixation

Placing tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice into a blender and turning it on to produce salsa is similar to which of the following?

the focused attention stage of feature integration theory

Which of the following attention model components produces two levels of output?

Treisman's attenuator

Which of the following is most closely associated with Treisman's attenuation theory of selective attention?

Dictionary unit

saccadic eye movement is a

a rapid, jerky movement from one fixation to the next

Eye tracking studies investigating attention as we carry out actions such as making a peanut butter sandwich shows that a person's eye movements

are determined primarily by the task

The ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli is called

cocktail party effect

The Stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the __________ of words.

meaning

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