Attention
Psychology ⇒ Cognitive Psychology
Attention starts at 10 and continues till grade 12.
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Describe a situation where change blindness might occur.
Describe an example of inattentional blindness.
Describe how attention can be both voluntary and involuntary.
Describe how attention can be measured in psychological experiments.
Explain the difference between sustained attention and selective attention.
Explain the Stroop effect and its relation to attention.
Explain the term 'attentional blink'.
In a classroom, a student is distracted by noise outside the window and misses important information from the teacher. What type of attention failure is this? (1) Selective attention, (2) Divided attention, (3) Inattentional blindness, (4) Distraction
In a classroom, a student is distracted by noise outside the window and misses important information from the teacher. What type of attention failure is this? (1) Selective attention, (2) Divided attention, (3) Inattentional blindness, (4) Distraction
Which model of attention suggests that information is filtered early in the processing stream? (1) Late selection model, (2) Early selection model, (3) Resource model, (4) Multitasking model
Which of the following best describes divided attention? (1) Focusing on one thing, (2) Ignoring all distractions, (3) Paying attention to multiple things at once, (4) Forgetting information quickly
Which of the following best describes selective attention? (1) Focusing on one stimulus while ignoring others, (2) Dividing attention between multiple tasks, (3) Being unaware of your surroundings, (4) Remembering past events
Fill in the blank: ________ is the failure to notice a fully visible but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task.
Fill in the blank: The ________ effect refers to hearing your name in a noisy room and immediately focusing on it.
Fill in the blank: The ________ model of attention suggests that all information is processed for meaning before selection occurs.
Fill in the blank: The ability to focus on more than one task at the same time is called ________ attention.
True or False: Attention is unlimited and can be divided among as many tasks as needed without loss of performance.
True or False: Attention plays a role in memory formation.
True or False: Automatic processes require little or no attention to perform.
True or False: Change blindness is the inability to detect changes in a visual scene.
