Exam 4: Attention: Deploying Cognitive Resources

In Treisman's (1960)classic experiment,participants were asked to shadow a message in one ear.At a certain point in the middle of the messages,the content of the first message and the second message were switched.What happened to shadowing performance?

According to Treisman's Feature Integration Theory,which of the following should be processed or attended to the slowest?

Spelke,Hirst,and Neisser attempted to teach participants to simultaneously take dictation and read with comprehension.Their results suggests that ______.

Of the following,which metaphor do we usually use to refer to attention?

Driving simulator studies suggest that ______.

In her experiments supporting her attentuation theory of attention,Treisman used the ______ to show that multiple streams of information can be processed even if they do not always rise to the level of conscious awareness.

Talking to a passenger in a car is just as dangerous as talking on a cell phone while driving.

Attention determines what gets learned during practice of a task.

Easy tasks are more likely to use ______ processing and difficult tasks are more likely to use ______ processing.

Which of these is true about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

What does it mean to modulate your attention?

Which of the following is a characteristic of an automatic process?

Which of the following is true regarding controlled processing?

The "cocktail party effect" refers to your inability to notice other conversations in the room when you are attentively listening to one conversation.

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 consistent-mapping condition?