Exam 4: Attention

__________ processes involve conscious processing,conscious awareness that a task is being performed,and usually conscious awareness of the outcome of that performance.

Which is NOT true?

Practice and memory lead to automaticity.

The guidance of executive attention is associated with the __________.

It appears that hemineglect is caused by __________.

Searching for a red circle in a field of green squares is likely to yield __________.

The finding that people will not remember a word repeated 35 times in an unattended ear during a shadowing task,but will notice their name,is consistent with __________ theories of attention.

What is an action slip?

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of controlled attention?

Describe two pieces of evidence against "early selection."

Provide a specific example and explain the underlying logic of using dual-task procedures to help us to learn about cognitive functioning.

Attention capture and orienting are important because they allow __________.

In hemineglect,the tendency to ignore the contralateral field when a competing stimulus is present in the ipsilateral field is called ____________.

When you move your spotlight of attention,it __________.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of input attention?

Attenuation theory is associated with __________.

The execution of an unintended,but more automatic,action in the place of an intended,and less automatic,action is called __________.

When the attention mechanism of inhibition is used,the suppression of irrelevant information is eliminated.

The shadowing task is __________.

According to the textbook,which of the following is the LEAST likely to be a feature of performance on a visual search task that leads to the apparent "pop-out" of the target from the background distractor items?