Describe the difference between selective attention and vigilance.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2What is attention and why is it important?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3____ refers to an experience involving the preconscious level of consciousness, in which a person tries to remember something that is known to be stored in memory, but that the person cannot quite retrieve.
a. The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
b. The tip-of-awareness phenomenon
c. Freudian slip
d. Subliminal perception
Ques. 4What was the pattern of results that Marcel (1983) found using primes that have two different meanings (e.g., palm: hand or tree)?
a. He showed evidence for positive priming only (facilitation).
b. He showed evidence of negative priming only (inhibition).
c. His results depended on whether or not the prime was viewed long enough to become conscious.
d. He found priming effects only when the prime was consciously viewed.
Ques. 5____ refers to the process by which particular stimuli activate mental pathways that enhance the ability to process subsequent stimuli related to the initial stimuli in some way.
a. Priming
b. Feature enhancement
c. Conjunction processing
d. Binaural processing
Ques. 6Information about your bedroom, such as the number of windows in it, is often easily pulled from ____ awareness to conscious awareness.
a. superconscious
b. preconscious
c. subconscious
d. unconscious
Ques. 7Mistakes are to controlled processes as ______ are to automatic processes.
a. tip-of-the-tongue effects
b. data
c. Stroop effects
d. slips
Ques. 8The ____ refers to the psychological difficulty in selective attention that occurs when a literate person attempts to name the colors of ink used to print the color words for other colors (e.g., blue may be printed in red ink).
a. semantic confusion phenomenon
b. feature-integration problem
c. Stroop effect
d. signal effect
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