Exam 3: Mechanisms of Attention

A period of time during which the response to a second stimulus will be significantly slowed because of the processing still occurring on the earlier stimulus is called

You are typing an e-mail while listening to iTunes on your computer.Suddenly,you realize you just typed a few of the lyrics of the song you are listening to instead of what you meant to write.This is a

Selective attention is to divided attention as _______ is to

The "pop-out effect" sometimes seen in visual search

Occasions in which a person's attention is involuntary drawn to some stimulus are referred to as

According to feature integration theory,visual search is a ____-stage process.

Treisman and Gelade (1980)had subjects search through brown Ts and green Xs to find targets (blue Ts).This is an example of _____,and RT in this condition ____ be influenced by display size.

Tronsky's (2005)study on how automaticity develops in complex multiplication.As subjects did multiplication problems over and over,they were asked to assess the strategy they were using.What happened over time?

What is the purpose of shadowing?

In an experiment by Simon and Chabris (1999),participants were to watch people passing a basketball around and were told to keep track of some activity within the game.What was the distinctive feature of the scene,and what proportion of people failed to notice it?

How does guided search as proposed by Wolfe differ from feature integration as proposed by Treisman?

Which of these seems to make it more likely that a visual scene change will be noticed?

_________ listening is simultaneously listening to two different messages,one in each ear.

Egly,Driver,and Rafal (1994)had participants look at displays that featured two rectangles (A and B)standing on end,equidistant from a central fixation point.On a given trial,a target stimulus was presented at the top or bottom of one of the rectangles.Prior to the presentation of a target,one of the rectangles was highlighted,indicating that the target position would be within this rectangle.On some trials (invalid trials),the target appeared in the non-highlighted rectangle.On these key (invalid trials),Egly et al.found that the misleading cue _________,supporting

Post-attentive processes

Drifting toward the center line while trying to retrieve the cell phone you dropped on the car floor would be an example of a deficit in what level of task,as described by the Groeger (1999)framework?

In their study of low-target prevalence searches,Wolfe,Horowitz,and Kenner (2005)found that (incorrect)target-absent responses on critical (target-present)trials were _____ target-present responses on these trials.

For which of these numbers would you most likely count rather than subitize?

According to the attenuation theory,the cocktail party phenomenon occurs because

Maratos,Mogg,and Bradley (2008)looked at the attentional blink for faces differing in emotion and found that the attentional blink for _____ faces was ____ than the blink for neutral faces.