Results from dichotic listening studies indicate that, while a person is shadowing one message, he/she notices which of the following features of the unattended message?
a. whether it is speech or simply noise
b. whether it is spoken in English or Japanese
c. multiple repetitions of the same wor...
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Results from dichotic listening studies indicate that, while a person is shadowing one
message, he/she notices which of the following features of the unattended message?
a. whether it is speech or simply noise
b. whether it is spoken in English or Japanese
c. multiple repetitions of the same words
d. both the fact that it is speech and the language that is being spoken
e. whether the words being spoken are nonsense or real sentences - CORRECT
ANSWER a. whether it is speech or simply noise
In a _______ task, a person listens to an audiotape and hears two separate messages
presented simultaneously to the left and right ears.
a. filter
b. dichotic listening
c. bionic listening
d. sustained attention
e. stereophonic listening - CORRECT ANSWER b. dichotic listening
Broadbent, in proposing his filter theory of attention, argued that an attentional filter
lets some information through and blocks out the rest. This filter is based upon:
a. the meaning of the message.
b. a physical characteristic of the message, such as its location.
c. the importance of the message.
d. the language of the message.
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e. the number of repetitions of the message. - CORRECT ANSWER b. a physical
characteristic of the message, such as its location.
The _______ theory of attention states that there is a very limited amount of
information that can be attended to at one time; unattended information is blocked out.
a. filter
b. attenuation
c. schema
d. cocktail party
e. divided attention - CORRECT ANSWER a. filter
Which of the following would NOT be a reasonable basis for filtering, according to
Broadbent's model?
a. whether the message was coming from your right or your left side
b. the pitch of the voice reading the message
c. the loudness of the voice reading the message
d. the language that the message was being read in
e. the gender of the person reading the message - CORRECT ANSWER d. the
language that the message was being read in
Broadbent believed that you might be able to attend to two messages at once if:
a. you were concentrating very hard.
b. both messages contained little information.
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c. both messages were important to you.
d. there was no background noise in the room.
e. you were blindfolded. - CORRECT ANSWER b. both messages contained little
information.
The "cocktail party effect" refers to the fact that shadowing performance is disrupted
when _______ is embedded in the unattended message.
a. backward speech
b. the listener's name
c. a section of repeated words
d. music
e. a switch in language - CORRECT ANSWER b. the listener's name
When listening to a conversation, your attention is momentarily diverted when you hear
your name spoken in a different conversation across the room. This is an example of
the:
a. filter effect.
b. dichotic listening phenomenon.
c. cocktail party effect.
d. attenuation effect.
e. Stroop effect. - CORRECT ANSWER c. cocktail party effect.
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