Question 1

The grabbing of attention by an unexpected event is called __________.

Accepted Answer

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Question 2

When talking about attention,the role of inhibition is to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  reduce the influence of salient but irrelevant information
B)  help people forget bad events
C)  reduce the amount of attention available
D)  slow thinking down so that it is more preciseE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 3

For later filter theories of attention,selection is based on __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  semantic meaning
B)  multimodalities
C)  physical characteristics
D)  inhibitionE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 4

Controlled attention is NOT __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  deliberate
B)  voluntary
C)  automatic
D)  effortfulE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 5

Practice at a task makes it more __________ and less __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  automatic; controlled
B)  controlled; automatic
C)  perceptual; linguistic
D)  linguistic; perceptualE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 6

Which is NOT true of Posner's spatial cueing task?

Accepted Answer

A)  Participants were to maintain fixation at the center of the screen throughout each trial.
B)  Useful advance information led to facilitation.
C)  Misleading cues lead to costs.
D)  Neutral cues facilitated the movement of the spotlight of attention.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

General alertness/basic arousal is controlled (at least in part) by the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  thalamus
B)  brain stem
C)  corpus callosum
D)  cerebellumE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 8

For early filter theories of attention,selection is based on __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  semantic meaning
B)  multimodalities
C)  physical characteristics
D)  inhibitionE) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

Which neural pathway is more likely to be involved in the orienting reflex?

Accepted Answer

A)  dorsal pathway
B)  ventral pathway
C)  medial pathway
D)  frontal pathwayE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 10

Automatic processing is always better than controlled processing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

During the attentional blink,what happens?

Accepted Answer

A)  The eyes blink.
B)  Attentional processing can catch up.
C)  There is a loss of irrelevant information.
D)  There is a brief slowdown in processing.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

If a pop-out effect does not occur,the visual search is best described as a __________ search.

Accepted Answer

A)  failed
B)  obligatory
C)  parceled
D)  conjunctionE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 13

According to Lavie,the attentional filter is more likely to be guided by physical characteristics when attention is __________ and by semantic characteristics when attention is __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  not taxed; taxed
B)  taxed; not taxed
C)  voluminous; limited
D)  limited; voluminousE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 14

Conscious processing is __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  intentional
B)  usually rapid (
C)  not open to awareness or introspection
D)  not resource demandingE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

In vigilance tasks,performance starts to decline after __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  20-35 minutes
B)  5-15 minutes
C)  1-2 minutes
D)  60-90 minutesE) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 16

Habituation is __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  a reduction in the orienting response to familiar stimuli
B)  the forming of a new bad habit
C)  found in people with stunted neural processes
D)  unaffected by memoryE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 17

Under most circumstances,spotlight attention traverses the visual field from place to place rather than appearing and disappearing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Evolutionary accounts of attention suggest that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)  attention is evolutionarily relatively new
B)  attention is driven solely by perception
C)  our faces and eyes communicate where we are attending
D)  mate selection is driven by effectiveness in attending to courtship cuesE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of mind-wandering thoughts?

Accepted Answer

A)  attention consuming
B)  inappropriate
C)  current concerns
D)  task relatedE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 20

Two tasks are presented such that one task captures the person's attention as completely as possible.We examine performance on that primary task as well as (very likely)the information picked up from the secondary task.This procedure is called the __________________ procedure.

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For later filter theories of attention,selection is based on __________.

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General alertness/basic arousal is controlled (at least in part) by the __________.

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Controlled attention is NOT __________.

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Practice at a task makes it more __________ and less __________.

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