Exam 4: Attention

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 ______.

The concept of attention capture explains that ______.

Letter targets and number distractors in Schneider and Shiffrin's (1977) task is an example of a(n) ______.

Perhaps one of the most important ways to turn a controlled task into an automatic one is to ______.

Differentiate between automatic processing and controlled processing. Then provide an example from your own life of how a controlled process became an automatic process.

What does the phrase "incompatibilities tax attention" mean?

Which of these is known to influence the cocktail party effect?

Treisman's modified filter model of attention suggests that some information passes through, but only after it has been ranked in terms of ______.

You are a biology major but must take at least one business class to graduate. The fact that you tend to find biology-based courses much more entertaining than the required business class supports ______.

Talking to your friend during class while you are supposed to be listening to your professor's lecture is most similar to ______.

Noticing a red flower among a field of purple flowers illustrates ______.

According to Treisman's dictionary unit, the lower the threshold of information, ______.

Explain the idea of attention as an information filter. Give an example from your own life of how attention can act like a filter.

Zaretskaya et al. (2013) found activity in the ______ during a task involving a global percept.

Our attention has been said to involve a ______ that filters out everything except the information we are attending to.

You are walking through the park, and you notice two people. You see that they are sitting together on a blanket of some kind. They also have a basket in front of them, and there is food inside it. There is a bottle of juice next to each person, and they appear to be laughing and enjoying the mild weather that you then notice. Combining all of these observations to surmise that this couple is having a picnic on a beautiful day in the park best illustrates ______.

Attention is an unlimited resource, capable of focusing on an infinite number of bits of information.

In Simons and Chabris' (1999) study, most people noticed the gorilla walk across the scene.

Why do psychologists and researchers use so many different analogies to describe attention?

An example of a conjunction target would be a ______.