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Attention in which the focus coincides with the individual's sensory orientation is called
A) arousal.
B) primary attention.
C) overt attention.
D) covert attention. ANSW- C
A viewer closely focused on a complex task, such as being asked to count how many
times a group of people threw a ball back and forth, may miss other nonattended stimuli
like dancers moving through the group of people due to an attentional phenomenon
called
A) differential blindness.
B) shadowing.
C) inattentional blindness.
D) filter failure. ANSW- C
In one variant of a shadowing task, subjects are presented simultaneously with different
stimuli to each ear and asked to focus their attention only on one ear. The result is that
subjects are unable to report much about the content in the unattended ear. Which form
of attentional processing accounts for this difficulty?
A) Attentional spotlight
B) Early selection
C) Attentional blindness
D) Late selection ANSW- B
In early-selection models of attention, when is information filtered out?
A) At the level of semantic meaning
B) Prior to sensory input
C) After conscious awareness
D) At the level of sensory input ANSW- D
The experience of having your attention suddenly captured by hearing your name from
across the room is support for which type of attentional selection model?
A) Shadowing
B) Late-selection
C) Inattentional blindness
D) Early-selection ANSW- B
Despite high levels of background noise, you are able to selectively tune in to what your
friend is saying in a crowded cafe. This selective enhancement is referred to as the
______ effect.
A) cocktail party
, B) covert attention
C) early-selection
D) perceptual load ANSW- A
The _______ bottleneck refers to a filter that results from the limits of our attentional
capacity.
A) early-selection
B) attentional
C) shadowing
D) perceptual ANSW- B
When we focus on simple tasks or objects, our relatively light _______ allows for the
processing of additional stimuli (i.e., multi-tasking).
A) divided-attention
B) perceptual load
C) shadowing
D) covert attention ANSW- B
In the _______ task, subjects are provided with a cue that predicts target location.
A) shadowing
B) sustained-attention
C) inattentional blindness
D) symbolic cuing ANSW- D
Which cue will typically elicit the fastest reaction time to the target in the symbolic cuing
task?
A) Colorful
B) Valid
C) Invalid
D) Neutral ANSW- B
Which type of attention can be sustained over the longest period of time?
A) Covert
B) Voluntary
C) Reflexive
D) Nonconscious ANSW- B
Reflexive attention is also called
A) exogenous attention.
B) symbolic cuing.
C) endogenous attention.
D) stimulus cuing. ANSW- A
The average reaction time in an uncomplicated choice-reaction-time test (i.e., the time it
takes from the initial visual signal until the subject pushes the choice button) is
approximately _______ ms.
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