Study Guide Summer 2015 Test 3 Memory Attention 84 Questions
Name: __________________________ Date: _____________
1.
Our attention has been said to involve a _____ that filters out everything except the information we are attending to.
2.
You are in your living room baby-sitting a five year old while watching a an important class lecture online. The child is making so much noise, you are repeating what you hear in the lecture to yourself. This is most similar to _____.
3.
You are at a playground with your little brother, and you hear a child yell, “MOM!” You notice a dozen women pause in their conversations, turning their heads to see if it was their child calling for them. This is an example of _____.
4.
Which of these is NOT known to influence the cocktail party effect?
5.
Treisman's modified filter model of attention suggests that some information passes through, but only after it has been ranked in terms of _____.
6.
According to Treisman's dictionary unit, the lower the threshold of information, _____.
7.
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the notion that our attention is like a spotlight?
8.
In your textbook, a study was discussed in which participants were asked to complete two tasks at once or separately, and their performance in both conditions was compared. It was found that when they performed both tasks at the same time, they did not perform as well as when the tasks were performed separately. This experiment employed _____.
9.
Who developed the feature integration model of attention?
10.
An example of a conjunction target would be
11.
Localization of function or features in attention processes is consistent with _____.
12.
Zaretskaya et al. (2013) found activity in the _____ during a task involving a global percept.
13.
Noticing a red flower among a field of purple flowers illustrates _____.
14.
Participants in Simons & Chabris' (1999) study did not notice when a gorilla walked across a scene. This illustrates _____.
15.
Participants in Simons & Levin's (1998) study did not
1.
Our attention has been said to involve a _____ that filters out everything except the information we are attending to.
2.
You are in your living room baby-sitting a five year old while watching a an important class lecture online. The child is making so much noise, you are repeating what you hear in the lecture to yourself. This is most similar to _____.
3.
You are at a playground with your little brother, and you hear a child yell, “MOM!” You notice a dozen women pause in their conversations, turning their heads to see if it was their child calling for them. This is an example of _____.
4.
Which of these is NOT known to influence the cocktail party effect?
5.
Treisman's modified filter model of attention suggests that some information passes through, but only after it has been ranked in terms of _____.
6.
According to Treisman's dictionary unit, the lower the threshold of information, _____.
7.
Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the notion that our attention is like a spotlight?
8.
In your textbook, a study was discussed in which participants were asked to complete two tasks at once or separately, and their performance in both conditions was compared. It was found that when they performed both tasks at the same time, they did not perform as well as when the tasks were performed separately. This experiment employed _____.
9.
Who developed the feature integration model of attention?
10.
An example of a conjunction target would be
11.
Localization of function or features in attention processes is consistent with _____.
12.
Zaretskaya et al. (2013) found activity in the _____ during a task involving a global percept.
13.
Noticing a red flower among a field of purple flowers illustrates _____.
14.
Participants in Simons & Chabris' (1999) study did not notice when a gorilla walked across a scene. This illustrates _____.
15.
Participants in Simons & Levin's (1998) study did not