IE 2 B Flashcards
A kind of attention on which a person monitors several sources of information to determine the occurrence of a particular event.
a. Selective Attention
b. Focused Attention
c. Divided Attention
d. None of the above
c. Divided Attention
Concerned with the capabilities of the human brain and sensory system while performing information processing activities.
a Physical Ergonomics
b. Occupational Ergonomics
c. Cognitive Ergonomics
d. Social Ergonomics
c. Cognitive Ergonomics
Consists of five senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste) that are activated by stimuli.
a. Nervous System
b Sensory System
c. Respiratory System
d. Cognitive Ergonomics
b Sensory System
The stage of cognition that follows the sensing of external stimuli.
a. Cognition
b. Memory
c. Sensory
d. Perception
d. Perception
These are sensory receptors that are excited by stimuli arising from within the body. These receptors are in muscles, tendons, and joints in the body.
a. Exteroceptors
b. Proprioceptors
c. Receptors
d. Human Sensory System
b. Proprioceptors
The brightness of light, called luminous intensity, is determined by
a. Electromagnetic radiation
b. Visual acuity
c. Visual angle
d. Amplitude of the radiation
c. Visual angle
This is the capability to perceive depth in one’s field of view.
a. Stereoscopic Acuity
b. Snellen Acuity
C. Visual Acuity
d. Minimum Separable Acuity
a. Stereoscopic Acuity
It is a condition of being partially colorblind and being sensitive to only two colors.
a Color Blindness
b. Monochromatism
c. Dichromatism
d. Duochromatism
c. Dichromatism
Humans perceive sound intensity as ____ and frequency is interpreted as ____
a. Pitch; Loudness
b. Loudness; Pitch
C. Volume; Pitch
d. Loudness; Pitch
b. Loudness; Pitch
d. Loudness; Pitch
For humans with normal hearing, what is the approximate range of sound frequency
perception?
a. At least 20 Hz
b. 200 Hz to 20,000 Hz
c. At least 200 Hz
d 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
d 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
This is normal hearing loss caused by aging.
a. Presbycusis
b. Sociocusis
c. Cutaneous
d. None of the above
a. Presbycusis
Which among the following is not a basis for Top-down processing?
a. Human Knowledge
b. Experience
c. Expectations
d. External Stimuli
d. External Stimuli
Stimulus that stands out among the other channels.
a. Expectancy
b. Value
c. Proximity
d. Salience
d. Salience
Affects one’s ability to focus on a desired stimulus.
a Proximity
b. Salience
c. Background Noise
d. Expectancy
c. Background Noise
Which among the following helps improve performance in divided attention situations?
a. Minimize the number of input information channels
b. Reduce the level of difficulty of the tasks
c. Reduce the similarity of tasks in terms of demands on input channels, mental processing, and put requirements
d. at the above
c. Reduce the similarity of tasks in terms of demands on input channels, mental processing, and put requirements
Involves a situation in which an individual must watch for a signal of interest over a relatively long period of time, and it is important to avoid missing the signal.
a. Sustained Attention
b. Divided Attention
c. Focused Attention
d. Working Attention
a. Sustained Attention
Person must focus on only one channel for a sustained period of time and exclude all of the other stimuli.
a. Sustained Attention
b. Divided Attention
c. Focused Attention
d. Working Attention
c. Focused Attention
Which among the following is considered background noise?
a. Visual Clutter
b. Auditory Noise
C. Both
d. None
C. Both
This is a temporary storage that holds a limited amount of information.
a. Sensory Memory
b. Working Memory
c. Long-term Memory
d. Vision Memory
b. Working Memory
Which among the following is not a primary component of short-term memory?
a. Central executing component
b. Visuospatial sketchpad
c. Phonological loop
d. Echoic storage
d. Echoic storage
An information item is called a/an -an information entity the mid works with as a unit.
a. Acoustic
b. Digit
C. Echo
d. Chunk
d. Chunk
What is the upper limit on the number of information items that can be processed at one
time in working memory?
a. 7+2
b. 5+2
C. 7±3
d. 5±3
a. 7+2
Which among the follow statements is true?
a. Episodic memory is a type of short-term memory.
b. An example of semantic memory is general knowledge about the world.
c. Information in long-term memory do not rely on semantic codes.
d. Chunks of information that are similar are easier to process.
b. An example of semantic memory is general knowledge about the world.
When do we use auditory presentation in reception and perception?
a. Simple Message
b. Complex Message
c) Noisy Environment
d. Person remains in one location
c) Noisy Environment