____ refers to an experimental task in which you listen to two different messages and then are required to repeat back only one of the messages as soon as possible after you hear it, while ignoring the other.
a. Selective listening
b. Shadowing
c. Unilateral attention
d. Uniaural listening task
Ques. 2____ presentation refers to the simultaneous presentation of different auditory stimuli (such as verbal messages) to each ear.
a. Binaural
b. Equalized
c. Parallel
d. Dichotic
Ques. 3The ____ phenomenon refers to the process of tracking one conversation in the face of the distraction of other conversations.
a. cocktail party
b. dichotic listening
c. bidirectional attention
d. subliminal perception
Ques. 4Madden's (2007) research examining the impact of aging on visual search ability has found that ____.
a. older participants are more accurate but slower than younger participants
b. younger participants are more accurate but slower than older participants
c. younger participants are more accurate and faster than older participants
d. there are no age differences on visual search tasks
Ques. 5According to ____, all searches, whether conjunctive or feature, involve two stages. The first stage involves the analysis of features and the second involves combining features into objects.
a. feature-integration theory
b. movement-filter theory
c. Broadbent's model
d. similarity theory
Ques. 6According to the ____ theory, the difficulty of eliminating distractors depends on the characteristics they do or do not share.
a. similarity
b. commonality
c. feature-integration
d. signal-detection
Ques. 7According to ____ theory, the key factor affecting the relative ease or difficulty of visual searches is whether or not we must combine various characteristics of objects to successfully complete our search.
a. similarity
b. feature-integration
c. commonality
d. signal-detection
Ques. 8Your 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. Although it can be difficult to spot your child, when it is raining, it is easy for you to spot the red umbrella that your child uses in the sea of dark umbrellas. The search has changed from ____ to _____.
a. a feature search; a conjunction search
b. selective attention; divided attention
c. divided attention; selective attention
d. a conjunction search; a feature search
Ques. 9In a ____ search, we must search for a combination of stimulus characteristics..
a. selectivity
b. polymorphism
c. conjunction
d. feature
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