psych test

B. preattentive processes

Dr. Rhea D. Zeiner wants to improve the cockpit of an airplane. She observes that a row of control gauges has needles pointing in several directions. She corrects this problem by designing gauges with their safe zones in the same direction. This is an application of what? A. the attentional blink B. preattentive processes C. top-down processes D. change blindness

B. People don't always know their own thought processes.

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C. a pre-attentive process

If 100 students are wearing white shirts and one student is wearing a red shirt, what causes you to notice the red shirt ? A. a bottom-up process B. an attentive process C. a pre-attentive process D. a subliminal process

A. You find it just as fast among many other objects as among a few.

If you find something by a preattentive process, which of the following is true? A. You find it just as fast among many other objects as among a few. B. You use a top-down process to find it. C. You rely on subliminal perception. D. Your accuracy declines from one trial to the next.

D. You decide to shift attention from one item to another.

What is meant by a "top-down" process in attention? A. Someone tells you what to attend to first, second, and so forth. B. Your attention causes you to move your head, then your hands, and then your feet. C. Something unusual automatically grabs your attention. D. You decide to shift attention from one item to another.

B. The delay to answering is proportional to the angular distance of rotation.

When you are asked how something would look from a different angle, you say you "imagined rotating the object in my head." What evidence did Shepard & Metzler present to show that what you did really is like watching an object rotate? A. While someone answers, their eyes move as if they are watching something rotate. B. The delay to answering is proportional to the angular distance of rotation. C. While someone answers, brain areas responsible for seeing motion become active. D. People in a variety of cultures agree that they imagine rotation in their head.

A. one red object among a group of gray and white ones

Which of the following would you be most likely to find by a "preattentive" process? A. one red object among a group of gray and white ones B. one E among a group of Fs C. one F among a group of Es D. one four-leaf clover among a group of three-leaf clovers

B. the key to your dormitory room among a pile of other keys

Which of these would you probably find by an "attentive" process? A. a moving car in a parking lot full of unmoving cars B. the key to your dormitory room among a pile of other keys C. the rotting brown banana among many ripe yellow bananas D. the tall adult teacher in a classroom of many small children

B. an attentive process.

You are looking for a well-camouflaged animal in a forest. Finding it will require A. a preattentive process. B. an attentive process. C. a bottom-up process. D. a mnemonic process.

D. Your delay depends on how far one object must rotate to match the other.

You examine drawings of two objects. You are asked whether one object could be rotated to match the other. When the answer is "yes," what influences your speed of reply? A. On average, you answer faster and faster with each succeeding answer. B. Your delay is proportional to the total size of the two objects combined. C. Your delay is longer for dark objects and shorter for light colored objects. D. Your delay depends on how far one object must rotate to match the other.

D. a pre-attentive process

You look at a series of gauges. Most have their indicators pointing to the right, but one is pointing down. You notice the odd one immediately, regardless of how many other gauges are present. What directed your attention? A. an aversive process B. a top-down process C. an attentive process D. a pre-attentive process

A. The delay of response is proportional to how far one object has to rotate.

You see two objects, and you are to say whether one could be rotated until it matches the other. What determines the spe ed of your response? A. The delay of response is proportional to how far one object has to rotate. B. The delay of response is proportional to the size of the object. C. The delay of response depends on how familiar you are with objects like this. D. The delay of response is a constant for a given individual