Exam 7: Environmental Influences on Behavior, and Reflections on Nature and Nurture

Parallel processing involves the processing of many aspects of a problem

The only smiling face in a crowd of anxious-looking people may be so strikingly distinct that people cannot help but notice it.This best illustrates

In 2009,two Northwest Airline pilots overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles because they were focused on their laptops and in conversation.They also ignored air traffic controllers' attempts to reach them.What may have explained this potentially dangerous error?

fMRI scans of brain areas vital to driving indicate that activity ________ when a driver is attending to conversation.A study that focused video cams on teen drivers found that a ________ of crashes followed driver distraction from other passengers or phones.

Although many experienced drivers cannot accurately explain how they do it,most know how to turn successfully from a left to a right lane of traffic.This best illustrates the value of

It has been estimated that our five senses take in ________ bits of information per second while we process only ________ bits of information per second.

When Jason briefly turned to summon the waiter,his wife quickly switched her glass of red wine with his glass of white wine.Jason's failure to notice that his chosen wine had been replaced best illustrates

The psychological term for mental processes is

Compared with unconscious information processing,conscious information processing is relatively

Inattentional blindness refers to

The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously is called

The cocktail party effect provides an example of

Professor Rodriguez studies how the activation of specific regions of the brain affects dream content.Her work best illustrates the subfield of

Inattentional blindness is best described as a by-product of

Consciousness contributes to all of the following EXCEPT

Failing to notice changes in our immediate surroundings is called

Sequential processing refers to

Unconscious information processing is more likely than conscious processing to

About one-third of a second before participants in one study decided to move their wrists,their ________ indicated a readiness potential to move.

Which of the following poses the greatest risk of an accident while driving?