Cognitive Practice Quiz #3
*Only check one box per question*

1) Shadowing is a technique used to study which of the following?
A) Selective Listening
B) Inattentional Blindness
C) Unilateral Neglect
D) Agnosia

Which of the following is the setup used to study attentional focus during listening?
A) Chronometric Analysis
B) Tachistoscopic Presentation
C) Dichotic Listening
D) Both Answers A and C

The "Coctail Party Effect" can be seen in which of the following examples?
A) A person is involved in a conversation and doesn't hear when someone else mentions their name
B) A person is at a party and has trouble paying attention to the conversation they are engaged in because there are many other conversations going on around them
C) A person who has been engaged in one conversation suddenly stops attending to that conversation because they hear their friend's name
D) A person has difficulty perceiving the visual stimuli around them, possibly because many of their friends are scattered throughout the party

Evidence from change blindness is evidence that attention/perception is:
A) Active
B) Passive
C) Always automatic
D) Answers A and C

What is priming?
A) "Warming up" the perceptual system, making it easier to perceive a new stimulus
B) Attention for mathematics
C) Making attention and action automatic (e.g. driving)
D) Segregating channels of attention

Chronometric Analysis always takes advantage of which of the following?
A) Priming
B) Attentional Focus
C) Shadowing
D) Mental processes take time to complete

When we divide attention, sometimes we can do it easily, other times we cannot. The hypothesis with the most experimental evidence supporting the reason for this is:
A) The response selector has limited resources and acts as a botleneck
B) We cannot do things that have been practiced enough to cause automaticity.
C) Ybor City has too many entertainment venues.
D) Expectation +Priming increases attentional focus (Posner & Snyder)

There is evidence to suggest that if people practice enough, they could learn to pay attention to several things at once and perform several tasks at once, such as reading/listening/and writing and still comprehend and remember what they were exposed to.
A) True
B) False
C) Choose this for an incorrect answer
D) Choose this for a different incorrect answer

If a person has a type of unilateral neglect,
A) they are unable to attend to sounds that come from one side.
B) they cannot consciously perceive visual stimuli in one of their visual fields.
C) they have physical problem similar to blindness that affects the sensory system.
D) they can see and perceive anything in front of them.

A person is asked to direct their eyes to an object on a screen (e.g. triangle) and are then told they will be shown a different object (e.g. a plus sign "+") off to the side of the original object and must determine something about the new object (e.g. Which line is longer, horizontal or vertical?). What is most likely to happen if during the presentation of the second object ("+"), the first object is changed (e.g. from a triangle to a circle)?
A) They will be unable to perform the task involving the new object, but will notice the change.
B) They will be able to perform the task and will notice the change in the first object
C) They will be able to perform the task and will not notice the change in the first object.
D) They will be unable to perform the task and will not notice the change.

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