Exam 4: Attention: Deploying Cognitive Resources
Exam 1: Cognitive Psychology: History, methods, and Paradigms87 Questions
Exam 2: The Brain: an Overview of Structure and Function90 Questions
Exam 3: Perception: Recognizing Patterns and Objects92 Questions
Exam 4: Attention: Deploying Cognitive Resources95 Questions
Exam 5: Working Memory: Forming and Using New Memory Traces95 Questions
Exam 6: Retrieving Memories From Long-Term Storage94 Questions
Exam 7: The Reconstructive Nature of Memory90 Questions
Exam 8: Knowledge Representation: Storing and Organizing95 Questions
Exam 9: Visual Imagery and Spatial Cognition90 Questions
Exam 10: Language95 Questions
Exam 11: Thinking and Problem Solving90 Questions
Exam 12: Reasoning and Decision Making90 Questions
Exam 13: Cognitive Development Through Adolescence89 Questions
Exam 14: Individual Differences in Cognition90 Questions
Exam 15: Cognition in Cross-Cultural Perspective90 Questions
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According to Kahneman,arousal affects the availability of mental resources for a task.
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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 ______.
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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.
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Which of the following is NOT true about distracted driving?
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Which of the following is an example of a controlled process,for most people?
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Neuropsychological studies have indicated that patients with damage to the right parietal lobe ______.
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Which of the following would NOT be a reasonable basis for filtering,according to Broadbent's model?
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Dividing your attention between two tasks is easiest when ______.
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In a ______ task,a person listens to an audiotape and hears two separate messages presented simultaneously to the left and right ears.
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Mindful meditation's link to attention could best be described by ______.
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Parts of the frontal,parietal,and subcortical lobes are involved in ______.
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Sensory neglect (also called hemineglect)occurs when patients suffer damage to the ______ lobe.
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In Kahneman's model of attention,allocation of mental resources is affected by preferences for certain kinds of tasks over others.These preferences are known as ______.
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In Treisman's experiments on feature integration,the number of distracters did not matter when participants were asked to spot ______.
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What types of information have lowered thresholds,according to Treisman's attenuation theory?
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Who would you expect to be least affected by the Stroop effect?
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Wood and Cowan switched a passage in participants' unattended ear to backward speech and reported that performance in shadowing the other ear ______.
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Based on Treisman's Feature Integration theory,which combination of experimental conditions should produce the longest reaction times?
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In their classic Feature Integration findings,Treisman and Gelade (1980)found that feature searches (searches involving primitive single features such as color)were ______ and affected ______ by the number of distractors than conjunction searches (searches involving combinations of features).
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