Process of concentrating on certain stimuli, thoughts, etc.
What is attention
100
Was looking to see if new information would interfere with information stored in sensory memory; hearing "have a nice day" after hearing a phone number interfered with remembering that phone number
What is Phone Operator Experiment
100
True or False?
Sensory Memory is sensory that bring back memory?
What is False
100
True or False.
The Attenuation Model has 2 stages?
What is True
100
True or False, it is safer to drive while talking on the cell phone, than it is to have a passenger.
What is False
200
Allows us to focus on one incoming message and to ignore the others
What is selective attention
200
The experiment that was done by Jevons. He estimated without hesitation the number of items on the white, from the white and black tray.
a. The Dot Experiment
b. The Phone Operator Experiment
c. The Bean Experiment
d. Cocktail Party Phenomenon
What is c. The Bean Experimnent
200
Iconic Memory is another name for
a. audio memory
b. masking
c. visual memory
d. span of apprehension
What is c. visual memory
200
The 2 stages of the Attenuation Model are
a. Attenuation, Thresholds
b. Attenuation, Dictionary Unit Analysis
c. Thresholds, Dictionary Unit Analysis
d. Salience, Context
What is b. Attenuation, Dictionary Unit Analysis
200
Driving while talking on the phone can be the equivalent as driving with a blood alcohol content of:
A) .04
B) .06
C) .08
D) 1.0
What is C, .08.
300
Measures sensory memory; the number of objects seen in a glance that can be accurately perceived half of the time
What is span of apprehension
300
Experiment done by Averbach. Used a tachistoscope with three different speeds. Participants counted the number they remembered. Used to measure sensory memory.
What is The Dot Experiment
300
What is another name for audio memory?
What is echoic memory
300
What is a problem with the Attenuation Model?
What is The Ambiguous Bank Experiment
300
The conversations were ______ in order to analyze the experiment statistically.
What is coded
400
The perception and/or storage of a stimulus is influenced by events occurring immediately after presentation.
What is masking
400
What does the Ambiguous Bank Experiment have to do with?
What is putting in words (having to do with a water bank or a money bank) in the unattended channel, to lead to later interpretation of the word 'bank'.
400
What is the bean experiment?
what is when a bean is repeatedly tossed into a black tray to measure sensory memory?
400
What is the dictionary unit analysis?
What is words that are detected if they pass over the threshold?
400
Complexity of speech ______ when traffic _______.
What is decreases, increases. Or increases, decreases.
500
People often hear their own name in unattended channels
What is cocktail party phenomenon
500
What is the Dear Aunt Jane Experiment?
What is listening to the left ear through headphones, and blocking out the right ear. You should then repeat the left ear words. You should repeat "Dear 7 Jane", however you repeat "Dear Aunt Jane". According to the filter model, you should not hear aunt.
500
What is sensory memory?
What is a brief stage of memory that holds information for seconds or fractions of seconds. It is closely connected to what we call perception.
500
What exactly is the Attenuation model?
What is when messages are "turned down" based on physical characteristics and if messages are too similar they can be separated based on meaning?
500
Explain inattentional blindness.
What is when a fixated object is not being processed resulting in either an incomplete or no mental representation of the object