COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY WK 1 - Chapter 3

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1. Which of the following statements is incorrect?

  • People are less susceptible to distraction when performing tasks high in perceptual load
  • There is a reduced processing of unattended visual stimuli compared to attended ones
  • Twins are more likely to attend to distracting stimuli
  • Anxious individuals are more likely to attend to distracting stimuli
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2. What was the name of Treisman's (1964) theory?

  • Attenuation Theory
  • Filter Processing Theory
  • Selective Attention Theory
  • Early Selection Theory

3. Who developed the first paradigm to study selective visual attention?

  • Mike Posner
  • Donald Broadbent
  • Colin Cherry
  • Anne Treisman

4. Steven Pinker (1997) argued that we need to consider three issues when trying to understand consciousness. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

  • Gender effects
  • Self knowledge
  • Sentience (subject experience/awareness)
  • Access to information

5. In Posner's paradigm, what does visual attention resemble?

  • A spotlight
  • A burning fire
  • A lava lamp
  • A fixed street light
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