Psych Ch.4 Quiz

Which experimental result caused problems for Broadbent's filter model of selective attention?

result of "Dear Aunt Jane" experiment

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

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 in the same extent

Automatic processing occurs when

tasks are well-practiced

With the Stroop effect, you would expect to find longest response times when

the color and the word differed

Which stage in Treisman's "attenuation model" has a threshold component?

the dictionary unit

Broadbent's model is called an early selection model because

the filtering step occurs before the meaning of the incoming information is analyzed

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

According to Treisman's "attenuation model," which of the following would you expect most people to readily respond?

the word "platypus"

Failure to notice something that is clearly in your visual field is referred to as

inattentional blindness

Illusory conjunctions are

combinations of features from different stimuli

The cocktail party effect is

Ability to concentrate on one voice amongst a crowd

Which of the following is an experimental procedure used to study how attention affects the processing of competing stimuli?

Dichotic listening

Difficulty detecting differences between scenes is referred to as

change blindness

Dichotic listening occurs when

different messages are presented to the left and right ears

The distribution of attention among two or more tasks is known as

divided attention

_________________ suggests that we initially analyze objects as separate features.

feature integration theory

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

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

it takes a strong signal to cause activation

Suppose you are in your kitchen writing a grocery list, while your roommate is watching TV in the next room. A commercial for spaghetti sauce comes on TV. Although you are not paying attention to the TV, you "suddenly" remember that you need to pick up spaghetti sauce and add it to the list. Your behavior is best predicted by which of the following models of attention?

late selection

If you are folding towels that have just come out of the laundry while watching television, you may find that you don't have to pay much attention to the process of folding the towels. This sort of familiar task that does not require much of your attention would be an example of a(n) ________ task.

low-load

Late selection models suggest that selection of stimuli for final processing doesn't occur until the information is analyzed for

meaning

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

meaning

The "filter model" proposes that the filter identifies the attended message based on

physical characteristics