Exam 4: Attention: Deploying Cognitive Resources

In Schneider and Shiffrin's classic study of visual search for targets,which of the following variables DID have an effect on processing in the varied-mapping condition?

According to Treisman's attenuation theory,the cocktail party effect occurs because ______.

Research on divided attention suggests that ______.

Which of the following provides the most likely explanation for the findings of Spelke,Hirst,and Neisser (in which participants learned to simultaneously take dictation and read with comprehension)?

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 ______.

Describe an experimental finding that causes problems for filter theories of attention.

Studies in which many participants fail to notice the presence of a gorilla or that two people switch places while being asked to engage in some other task (such as counting how many balls were passed or giving directions)is best considered an example of which of the following?

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 almost completely blocked and is not processed further except for some physical/acoustical properties.

The word "cat" is ______ by the phrase "The dog chased the…." That is,the word cat is especially ready to be recognized or attended to.

Treisman and Schmidt (1982)found that when participants' attentional resources were strained,they sometimes incorrectly integrated feature information across objects resulting in mixed perceptions.This is known as a(n)______.

What characterizes hemineglect?

In the Stroop effect,participants have difficulty correctly naming the color of ink that a word is written in when the word ______.

According to ______ theory,we never actually acquire unattended material at all.

The Stroop task involves an inability to read color names.

Neisser's schema theory of attention posits that we ______.

Automatic processes involve intention and conscious awareness.

If a participant attends to an auditory stimulus,you would expect their ERP results to show ______.

During an ERP task,a researcher notices that there were no large amplitude responses to several stimuli that participants listen to,even after 1000ms.What does this suggest about the amount of attention that was paid to the stimuli?

Treisman's theory argues that "unattended" information is actually ______.

Describe how the metaphor of a spotlight applies to attention.