S&P Chapter 6 Quiz Visual Attention

Which statement is true with regard to attention?

. Attention can influence appearance.

Barry is given a piece of paper with horizontal and vertical lines on it. The lines are blue and red. Barry is asked to circle the blue horizontal lines. What type of search is this?

conjunction search

A baseball pitcher is looking at home plate, but suddenly throws to first base in an attempt to catch a player trying to steal second base. The baseball pitcher is engaging in _____.

covert attention

Justin is scanning the crowd at the mall to try to find his friends. Each time Justin briefly pauses at a face, he is engaging in _____.

fixation

Justin is looking through the crowd in the mall as he tries to locate his friends. Justin has to visually scan the crowd because only the part of the eye known as the _____ creates good detail vision.

fovea

Mattea is looking in a store window at some clothes. She shifts her attention to look at her reflection in the window and becomes less aware of the clothes in the window. Which concept is best illustrated by this scenario?

inattentional blindness

Evan is asked to count to ten, which is an easy task for him. Which type of task best describes Evan's counting?

low-load task

Tricia is looking at a ball. If we could experience Tricia's processing of the image of the ball, we could see Tricia analyzing that the ball is red and round, or breaking the ball up into separate features (color, shape). Which stage of Treisman's feature integration theory does this example illustrate?

preattentive stage

While Shane is checking his e-mail, his attention is diverted to a pop-up advertisement. The pop-up ad is best described as a(n) _____ stimulus.

task-irrelevant

Janice is watching her daughter play soccer. Suddenly, she notices a bright flash and loud boom off to the side of the soccer field, indicating a thunderstorm. Which term refers to Janice's involuntary shift of attention to the bright flash and loud sound?

attentional capture