Quiz 3

Question 1

bottleneck

Answer 1

a restriction on the amount of information that can be processed at once, necessitating a selection of information to pass through the bottleneck.

Question 2

change blindness

Answer 2

failure to detect changes in the physical aspects of a scene, thought to arise from the inability to select at any one time all of the information in the two storage buffer systems.

Question 3

divided attention

Answer 3

focusing on more than one source of information at one time.

Question 4

double dissociations

Answer 4

the case in which an activity or variable affect the performance of one task or aspect of a task but not the other, and a second activity or variable has the reverse effect.

Question 5

dissociation

Answer 5

the case in which an activity or variable affect the performance of one task or aspect of a task but not the other; evidence of an existing process.

Question 6

association

Answer 6

refers to a connection between conceptual entities or mental states that results from the similarity between those states or their proximity in space or time.

Question 7

dual task interference

Answer 7

interference on perfomance in one task while performing a second task at the same time, compared with when the first task is performed alone.

Question 8

response bottleneck

Answer 8

a stage of processing in which a response to a stimulus is selected in competition with other possible responses (pressing a button with a foot pedal response).

Question 9

What are some types of failure of selection in space?

Answer 9

Change deafness, change blindness

Question 10

What is a failure of selection in space?

Answer 10

When there is a lot of information simultaneously present and you are not able to notice it all at once

Question 11

What are limitations on the speed with which information can be processed in temporal sequence called?

Answer 11

Failures of selection in time

Question 12

What is endogenous attention?

Answer 12

a form of attention in which top-down information drives the selection of information in the input. It originates from within

Question 13

What is exongeous attention?

Answer 13

a form of attention in which information in the input captures attention and is selected in a bottom-up fashion

Question 14

spotlight attention

Answer 14

Focused visual attention refers to the attention one gives to an object or area within a given space. Some have likened this to a spotlight, because we preferentially process whatever falls into our beam of focus