PSY 3420 - Chpt 4

A synapse is

the gap that separates two different neurons.

Donald Broadbent was the first person to develop which of the following?

A flow diagram depicting the mind as processing information in a sequence of stages

The cocktail party effect is

the ability to pay attention to one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli.

Dagny has a big crush on Hank, who sits next to her in chemistry class. She wants to see what Hank is wearing today, but doesn't want him to catch her looking at him. She uses her ______ attention to keep her eyes straight ahead, but slyly keeps her attention on Hank out of the "corner of her eye."

Covert

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

Dictionary unit

When we search a scene, initial fixations are most likely to occur on __________ areas.

high saliency

A high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that

it takes a strong signal to cause activation.

The Stroop effect occurs when participants

try to name colors and ignore words.

Which of the following statements is correct?

Objects in central vision fall on the small area called the fovea.

What is a key difference between dendrites and axons?

One sends information and the other receives information.

According to Treisman's attenuation model, which of the following would you expect to have the highest threshold for most people?

The word "platypus"

Imagine that lawmakers are considering changing the driving laws and that you have been consulted as an attention expert. Given the principles of divided attention, in which of the following conditions would a person have the most difficulty with driving and therefore pose the biggest safety risk on the road?

When the person is driving an unfamiliar vehicle that is more difficult to operate.

Wundt's procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

analytic introspection.

A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.

beliefs

Scene schema is

knowledge about what is contained in a typical scene.

If kittens are raised in an environment that contains only verticals, you would predict that most of the neurons in their visual cortex would respond best to the visual presentation of a

picket fence.

Saccadic eye movement is a ______________.

rapid, jerky movement from one fixation to the next

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

Binding

__________ is the process by which features such as color, form, motion, and location are combined to create our perception of a coherent object.

Binding

The use of a machine that tracks the movement of one's eyes can help reveal the shifting of one's __________ attention.

Overt