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ATTENTION-CH3-INTRO-TO-COGSCI

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is stimulus-driven attention (or exogenous control)?

a)

Attention controlled by the individual's PAIN tolerance

b)

Attention controlled by the individual's GOOGLE search history

c)

Attention controlled by the individual's GOALS

d)

Attention controlled by a STIMULUS (e.g., its saliency)

2.

How does Treisman's attenuation theory assume that information is handled?

a)

based on physical features (e.g., pitch), some information is weakened but not completely filtered out

b)

based on physical features (e.g., pitch), information is filtered out

3.

What is space-based attention?

a)

Focusing attention on people

b)

Focusing attention to regions/location in space

c)

Focusing attention to particular objects

d)

Focusing attention on your great teachers<333

4.

What do the early-selection theories propose?

a)

Serial bottlenecks occur early in information processing (before we perceive the “entire” stimulus)

b)

Serial bottlenecks occur late in information processing (after we perceive the stimulus)

5.

What does "serial bottlenecks" refer to?

a)

Ability to focus on one message and ignore all others

b)

Points in the path from perception to action where people cannot process all the information in parallel

c)

Sudden redirection of your attention e.g., due to loud noise

6.

What is inattentional blindness?

a)

The amount of information input that a person can handle

b)

Not perceiving some stimuli while paying attention to other stimuli

c)

A rapid shifting of attention, usually caused by stimulus such as a loud noise

7.

What is goal-directed attention (or endogenous control)?

a)

Attention controlled by a STIMULUS (e.g., its saliency)

b)

Attention controlled by the individual's GOALS

c)

Attention controlled by the individual's GOOGLE search history

d)

Attention controlled by the individual's PAIN tolerance

8.

What do participants do in a classic dichotic listening task?

a)

Listen to 2 messages (1 in each ear) and repeat back the words from only 1 message

b)

Listen to 2 messages (1 in each ear) and repeat back all the words from both messages

9.

What does central bottleneck refer to?

a)

the inability of central cognition to pursue multiple lines of thought simultaneously (limit on multitasking)

b)

Points in the path from perception to action where people cannot process all the information in parallel

10.

What is the binding problem?

a)

The problem of detecting changes in a visual scene

b)

The problem of how an object’s features are put together by the brain during perception

c)

The problem of keeping attention on what matters in life

11.

How does Broadbent's Filter Theory assume that information is handled?

a)

based on physical features (e.g., pitch), information is filtered out

b)

based on physical features (e.g., pitch), some information is weakened but not completely filtered out

12.

What is the STROOP effect?

a)

When the word and colour does not match, we find it difficult to name the colour of the printed word

b)

When the word and colour matches, we find it difficult to name the colour of the printed word

13.

Which problem does the feature-integration theory aim to explain?

a)

The google problem

b)

The problem of serial bottlenecks

c)

The FOMO problem

d)

The binding problem

14.

What is inhibition of return?

a)

Decreased ability to return attention to a location/object that has already been attended

b)

That one must focus attention on a stimulus before its features can be integrated

15.

Why are we so heavily impacted by the Stroop effect?

a)

Because colours are difficult for us to understand

b)

Because reading is such an automatic process

c)

Because we combine words and colours in our head

d)

Because mobile phones have destroyed our ability to read

16.

What does Treisman's feature-integration theory propose?

a)

That the brain does not integrate features but instead compares stimulus to templates

b)

That one must focus attention on a stimulus before its features can be integrated

17.

What is object-based attention?

a)

Focusing attention to particular objects

b)

Focusing attention on your great teachers<333

c)

Focusing attention on people

d)

Focusing attention to regions/location in space

18.

What are illusory conjunctions?

a)

Reporting combinations of features that did not occur when describing a single object

b)

Reporting novel stimuli more easily than stimuli that has already been attended to

19.

Which type of theory do Attenuation theory and Filter theory fall under?

a)

feature-integration theory

b)

late-selection theory of attention

c)

early-selection theory of attention

d)

theory of automaticity

20.

What does the late-selection theory propose?

a)

Serial bottlenecks occur early in information processing (before we perceive the “entire” stimulus)

b)

Serial bottlenecks occur late in information processing (after we perceive the stimulus)