Question 1

Explain how operant conditioning plays a role in people's use of cell phones, even in situations where they should not. What strategies could be employed to minimize this process?

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Operant conditioning is the learning the...

Question 2

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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A)   The word "money"
B)   Their child's first name
C)   The word "home"
D)   The word "platypus"E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 3

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

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A)   meaning.
B)   modality.
C)   physical characteristics.
D)   higher order characteristics.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 4

During a visit to the local museum, you appreciate the incredible beauty of the paintings displayed. Your ability to see the paintings as complete pictures rather than individual, disconnected dots of color, texture, and location occurs through a process called __________.

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A)   contiguity
B)   proximity
C)   accommodation
D)   bindingE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 5

Eye tracking studies investigating attention as we carry out actions such as making a peanut butter sandwich found that a person's eye movements

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A)   usually follow a motor action by a fraction of a second.
B)   are influenced by unusual objects placed in the scene.
C)   are determined primarily by the task.
D)   continually scan all objects and areas of the scene.E) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 6

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

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A)   sensory memory.
B)   cocktail party effect.
C)   detection.
D)   filtering.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 7

The difficulty we have in recognizing even an obvious alteration in a scene is called __________ blindness.

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A)   covert
B)   exogenous
C)   endogenous
D)   changeE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 8

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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A)   Change blindness
B)   Change detection
C)   Illusory conjunctions
D)   BindingE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 9

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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A)   Object-based
B)   Early selection
C)   Spotlight
D)   Late selectionE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)   meaning
B)   color
C)   size
D)   fontE) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 11

Broadbent's model is called an early selection model because

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A)   the filter eliminates unattended information at the beginning of the information flow.
B)   the filtering step occurs before the information enters the sensory memory.
C)   only a select set of environmental information enters the system.
D)   incoming information is selected by the detector.E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)   filter model attention.
B)   shadowing.
C)   dichotic listening.
D)   detector listening.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 13

The cocktail party effect is

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A)   the ability to pay attention to one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli.
B)   the inability to pay attention to one stimulus in the presence of competing stimuli.
C)   the diminished awareness of information in a crowd.
D)   the equal division of attention between competing stimuli.E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 14

The Stroop effect occurs when participants

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A)   are told to divide their attention between colors and shapes.
B)   try to name colors and ignore words.
C)   try to select some incoming information based on meaning.
D)   are told to shadow two messages simultaneously.E) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 15

Placing tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice into a blender and turning it on to produce salsa is similar to which of the following?

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A)   the detector of Broadbent's filter model
B)   the focused attention stage of feature integration theory
C)   the dictionary unit of Treisman's attenuation model
D)   the synchronization stage of the executive attention networkE) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)   Attenuator
B)   Dictionary unit
C)   Detector
D)   FilterE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 17

Which of the following best describes the result of attention in the context of perception?

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A)   warping
B)   enhancement
C)   accuracy
D)   filtrationE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 18

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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A)   low load
B)   divided
C)   cocktail party
D)   selectiveE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Eye tracking studies investigating attention as we carry out actions such as making a peanut butter sandwich found that a person's eye movements

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

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Which of the following best describes the result of attention in the context of perception?

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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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The Stroop effect occurs when participants

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During a visit to the local museum, you appreciate the incredible beauty of the paintings displayed. Your ability to see the paintings as complete pictures rather than individual, disconnected dots of color, texture, and location occurs through a process called __________.

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