Which of the following students provides the most complete and accurate definition for the term attention?
a. Josh: Attention refers to a focusing of cognitive processing so that you can concentrate on about seven stimuli.
b. Maeve: Attention refers to the active process of combining isolated stimuli into a meaningful whole.
c. Jenn: Attention is a storage component that takes in all possible external stimuli and holds them for several seconds.
d. Igor: Attention lets you concentrate your cognitive activity so that you can focus on information from your memory and your sensory world.
Question 2What can we conclude about the two major explanations for speech perception?
a. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues against a phonetic module approach.
b. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues for a phonetic module approach.
c. Humans cannot use visual cues as aids to the perception of phonemes, which argues against a general mechanism approach.
d. Infants use a general mechanism approach, whereas adults typically use a phonetic module approach.
Question 3The general mechanism approach to speech perception argues that
a. we first obtain a general idea about a spoken message, and then we fill in the specific details.
b. we use similar processes for both speech perception and other auditory perception tasks.
c. learning does not play a major role in speech perception.
d. children are born with a general understanding about speech, and they fill in specific information as they grow older.
Question 4Which of the following students provides the best overview about the research on theories of speech perception, as discussed in Chapter 2?
a. Kaitlin: Because speech is important to human survival, people have a specialized brain structure that helps them decode speech sounds.
b. Anastazia: The research on categorical perception provides the strongest evidence that the special mechanism approach to speech perception is correct.
c. Samaria: In general, most theorists believe that the human nervous system processes speech sounds in the same way it processes nonspeech sounds.
d. Jared: The research on the McGurk effect demonstrates that the special mechanism approach to speech perception is correct.
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