Attention

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Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Perception
Attention
Short-Term and Working Memory
Long-Term Memory: Structure
Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
Conceptual Knowledge
Visual Imagery
Language
Problem Solving
Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning

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Question 1

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When Sam listens to his girlfriend Susan in the restaurant and ignores other people's conversations, he is engaged in the process of __________ attention.

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low load

divided

cocktail party

selective

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Question 2

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

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Early selection

Filtering

Channeling

Dichotic listening

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Question 3

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The technique where the participant's task is to focus on the message in one ear, called the attended ear, and to repeat what he or she is hearing out loud is known as

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filter model attention.

shadowing.

dichotic listening.

detector listening.

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Question 4

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

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sensory memory.

cocktail party effect.

detection.

filtering.

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Question 5

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Colin Cherry's experiment in which participants listened to two different messages, one presented to each ear, found that people

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could focus on a message only if they are repeating it.

could focus on a message only if they rehearsed it.

could focus on one message and ignore the other one at the same time.

could not focus on a message presented to only one ear.

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Question 6

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The cocktail party effect is

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

the inability to pay attention to one stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli.

the diminished awareness of information in a crowd.

the equal division of attention between competing stimuli.

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Question 7

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

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meaning.

modality.

physical characteristics.

higher order characteristics.

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Question 8

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Broadbent's model is called the early selection model because

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sensory memory holds all of the information for fraction of second and then transfers all of it to filter.

the output is sent to short-term memory, which holds the information for 10-15 seconds and also transfer the information to long-term memory.

the attended information has been let through the filter, the detector processes all information that enters it.

the filter eliminates the unattended information right at the beginning of the flow of information.

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Question 9

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Anne Treisman's attenuator analyzes the incoming message in terms of all of the following EXCEPT

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how sequences of words create meaningful phrases.

how the message groups into syllables or words.

whether the message is fast or slow.

whether the perceptual load is low or high.

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Question 10

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Broadbent's model is called an early selection model because

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the filter eliminates unattended information at the beginning of the information flow.

the filtering step occurs before the information enters the sensory memory.

only a select set of environmental information enters the system.

incoming information is selected by the detector.

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Question 11

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What contains the words, stored in memory, each of which has a threshold for being activated?

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Attenuator

Dictionary unit

Detector

Filter

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Question 12

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Suppose twin teenagers are vying for their mother's attention. The mother is trying to pay attention to one of her daughters, though both girls are talking (one about her boyfriend, one about a school project). According to the operating characteristics of Treisman's attenuator, it is most likely the attenuator is analyzing the incoming messages in terms of

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physical characteristics.

language.

meaning.

direction.

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Question 13

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

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Late selection

Stroop experiments

Precueing

Dictionary unit

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Question 14

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

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The word "money"

Their child's first name

The word "home"

The word "platypus"

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Question 15

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

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The attenuator

The dictionary unit

The filter

The "leaky" filter

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Question 16

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

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weak signals can cause activation.

it takes a strong signal to cause activation.

all signals cause activation.

no signals cause activation.

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Question 17

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

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Change blindness

Change detection

Illusory conjunctions

Binding

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Question 18

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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?

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Object-based

Early selection

Spotlight

Late selection

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Question 19

Multiple Choice

If you are folding towels while watching television, you may find that you don't have to pay much attention to the act of folding while keeping up with the storyline on the TV show. Folding the towels would be an example of a(n) ________ task.

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attenuated

high-load

low-load

filtered

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Question 20

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

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meaning

color

size

font

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