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1. Which of these does not relate to inattentional blindness

  • Gorilla's in our midst- Only 42% noticed the gorilla when counting white team, 83% when counting black team
  • Failure to detect various changes in the visual environment
  • Failure to detect unexpected objects appearing in the visual environment
  • Unicycling clown- Only 51% students noticed, even lower when people were on their phones as it requires more attentional resoucres
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2. Which is these does not relate to change blindness

  • The two types of change detectors are seeing the object has changed and sensing something has changed
  • Unicycling clown- Only 51% students noticed, even lower when people were on their phones as it requires more attentional resources
  • Difficult to detect change due to empty frames, temporary occlusion or slow changes
  • The door study- When asking directions most people were unaware the person had switched
  • The failure to detect various changes in visual environment

3. Which of does not describe attention

  • Indifferent, objective and divided
  • Limited, captured and divided
  • Goal-directed, varies in effort
  • Shifted, zoomed, selective

4. Which of these does not related to Lachter and Spillage

  • Lachter-Participants report information from irrelevant ear when message switches to the other ear
  • Contradictory Research- Trained to have a left hand reponse to animals and right to man-made objects, during sleep Ps responded to the stimuli shown through EEG
  • Own-name effect- 20% noticed their name in a high working memory group, 65% did in a low working memory group- subjects let attention slip
  • Electric shock conditioning- Failed to replicate the same results, skin conductance changed sometimes
  • We are unable to control slippage, reinterpreted studies to prove this
  • Lachter et al- No identification without attention, prime location did not affect RTs as Ps did not allocate attention to it

5. Which of these does not apply to the dorsal attention network

  • located in the frontal eye field and intraparietal sulcus
  • located in the ventral frontal cortex and temporoparietal junction
  • located in the frontal and parietal lobe
  • Top down, goal- driven orienting, left/right hemisphere

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