Exam 4: Attention

Controlled attention refers to forms of processing in which there is a deliberate voluntary allocation of mental effort or concentration.

Which of the following is an aspect of human facial expression that can direct our attention?

Which of the following is NOT associated with Posner's spatial cueing task?

Negative priming in attention is __________.

Vigilance tasks show that attention becomes disengaged after two hours.

Attention capture occurs when there is some sufficient physical change in the environment.

Conscious processing,conscious awareness that a task is being performed,and (usually)conscious awareness of the outcome of that performance describe __________.

Which of the following terms is the least similar to the others?

Which of the following terms is NOT a physiological response during an orienting reflex?

Selective attention involves __________.

For the metaphor of attention as a process,__________.

Which of the following factors does NOT influence the likelihood a person will mind wander?

Automatic processes are not open to introspection.

Another way of describing Broadbent's filter theory of selective attention is:

A slowdown in processing from an invalid attentional cue is called __________.

In a shadowing task,when the participant follows the semantic content of the message across to the to-be-unattended channel,this is consistent with all but __________.

The loss of the ability to direct attention to one side of the visual world is called __________.

__________ is the reflexive redirection of attention that orients you toward the unexpected stimulus so that you can devote deliberate attention to it if warranted.

The mental attention-focusing mechanism that prepares you to encode stimulus information is called ___________ attention.

If I had you perform a stem completion task but had you exclude words from a list that I had just given you,your results are likely to illustrate __________.