Attention and Perception Quiz

When you look at a star in the sky, you no longer notice the moon. The star is where your attention is and the moon is ignored.

• Figure ground

• Selective attention

• Cocktail party effect

A student stopped at a red light and was looking at the red light. They went through the red light even though they were looking right at it. (HINT: This word means you miss something that is in your field of vision)

• Inattentional blindness

• Selective attention

• Cocktail party effect

A driver LOOKS DOWN at their cell phone to check a text and they fail to see that the car traffic slows down and is at a different speed than it was before. What is it called when you fail to notice a difference in the scene? (Hint: This often occurs when we blink or look away)

• Cocktail party effect

• Inattentional blindness

• Change blindness

Two girls set their Sheetz shakes on the roof of their car, so they could cross the road and say hello to a friend that they have not seen in months. They were so happy and focused on this friend that when they crossed the road again to go back to their car, they forgot about the shakes on the roof and drove away.

• Selective attention

• Change blindness

• Cocktail party effect

When a boy looked away, he failed to notice his brother switched the piece of gum in front of him. Instead of mint, the gum had bubble gum flavor. Even though the new piece of gum was a different color, he did not notice the difference.

• Change blindness

• Inattentional blindness

• Cocktail party effect

While engrossed in reading a novel, Raoul isn't easily distracted by the sounds of the TV or even by his brothers' loud arguments. This best illustrates [CHECK 2]

• Selective attention

• Figure ground

• Cocktail party effect

The increased risk of car accidents for drivers talking on a cell phone are EQUAL for those using hand-held devices and hand-free phones. This is due to

• Our limited attention

• Our inability to selectively attend to information

One study simultaneously delivered a recording of men talking in participants' one ear and recording of women talking in participants' other ear. When participants were assigned to pay attention to the women, 70 percent failed to hear one of the men repeatedly say "I'm a gorilla." This failure best illustrated

• inattentional blindness

• Cocktail party effect

• Change blindness

A school bus is stopped and has its lights blinking on and off. It is a law that all vehicles must stop when a school bus has the "stop sign" out. A driver is looking out the windshield and the bus is in view, but they fail the process that the bus is stopped. They drive by it and get a $300 ticket. Which of the following examples does this example fit?

• Change blindness

• Cocktail party effect

• Inattentional blindness

A dark figure was behind me and I didn't see it.  Is this inattentional blindness: Why or why not?

• Yes because the person could not see the stimulus

• Yes because the person was focused on what was in front and did not see what was behind them

• No because stimuli must be in view and the dark figure was behind them

• No because this is a visual stimulus and it should relate to audition/sound