Your child attends a school that requires all children to wear particular uniforms, although the ...

Your child attends a school that requires all children to wear particular uniforms, although the shirts can be white or light blue and the pants and skirts can be khaki or dark blue. When you search for your child in a sea of children whose faces you cannot see, you must search for a child wearing the same color shirt and pants as your child wore, with the same color hair of your child and the same height and build of your child. In other words, you must use a ____ search.
 
  a. a feature
 b. polymorphic
  c. divided
 d. a conjunction

Ques. 2

As a child, every time you went to a place with large crowds, your mother had you wear a bright colored shirt. She knew that it would be easier to spot you in the crowd by the color of your shirt. She was making use of ____.
 
  a. a feature search
 b. vigilance
 c. divided attention
 d. a conjunction search

Ques. 3

Fred needs to spot a particular friend in a crowded auditorium. Fred's friend has very bright red hair, so Fred scans the hall for very bright red hair. Fred is using a ____ search.
 
  a. characteristic
  b. selective
 c. conjunction
 d. feature

Ques. 4

In a ____ we look for just one characteristic (e.g., color, shape, or size) that makes our search object different from all others.
 
  a. Feature search
 b. Characteristic selectivity
  c. Signal scanning
 d. Visual selective attention

Ques. 5

____ refer to nontarget stimuli that divert our attention away from the target stimulus.
 
  a. Signals
 b. Distracters
 c. Secondary stimuli
  d. Secondary signals

Ques. 6

Trying to locate a particular friend in a crowded auditorium or a particular key term in a large list of terms are examples of ____.
 
  a. selective attention
 b. vigilance
 c. search
 d. multiple-task processing