Study Cards - Learning And Cognition - Exam 1 - Chapter 3

Front 1

What is the term for the concentration of mental activity that allows you to take in limited portions in the vast stream of information available from both sensory world and memory

Back 1

Attention

Front 2

What is the term for trying to pay attention to two or more simultaneous messages and respond appropriately to each message?

Back 2

Divided Attention

Front 3

what is the term for choosing to direct your attention to one thing when two conversations are going on at the same time

Back 3

selective attention

Front 4

what is the stroop effect?

Back 4

it's harder to name the ink color than the word name

Front 5

What is a situation in which people pay extra attention to some stimuli or some features?

Back 5

Attentional bias

Front 6

What is dichotic listening?

Back 6

people can only process one message at a time; can only pay attention if both are presented slowly

Front 7

What are saccadic eye movements?

Back 7

very rapid movement of the eyes from one spot to the next; happens during reading to bring the center of your retina into position over the words you want to read

Front 8

T/F: People are able to accomplish two or more tasks at the same time, without straining the limits of attention

Back 8

FALSE: the limits of attention are strained

Front 9

How has the stroop task been used?

Back 9

phobias

suicide - more likely within following six months

depression - takes longer to complete stroop task

addition - can be used to assess addiction to alcohol and cigarettes

eating disorders

Front 10

T/F: People can typically locate an isolated feature more quickly than a combined feature

Back 10

TRUE: people can typically locate an isolated feature more quickly than a combined feature

Front 11

T/F: People can typically locate a feature that is absent more than one that is present

Back 11

FALSE: People can typically locate a feature that is PRESENT more than one that is absent

Front 12

T/F: good readers make more regressions

Back 12

FALSE: good readers make LESS regressions

Front 13

T/F: A good reader has shorter pauses before moving onward

Back 13

TRUE

Front 14

What is generally responsible for the kind of attention required for visual search in which you must shift your attention around to various spatial locations?

Back 14

Orientation Attention Network

Front 15

What is responsible for the kind of attention we use when a task focuses on conflicting information?

Back 15

Executive Attention Network

Front 16

What is the early theory of attention that a narrow passageway limits the quantity of information to which one can pay attention?

Back 16

Bottleneck theory

Front 17

T/F: Information is lost throughout many phases of attention, from beginning to later processing

Back 17

TRUE

Front 18

What is the theory that we sometimes look at a scene using distributed attention, processing all parts at the same time?

Back 18

Feature integration theory

Front 19

What is an inappropriate combination of features called?

Back 19

Illusory conjunction

Front 20

What is the awareness that people have about the outside world and about their perceptions, images, thoughts, memories, and feelings?

Back 20

Consciousness

Front 21

What is though suppression?

Back 21

trying to eliminate the thoughts, ideas, and images that are related to an undesirable stimulus

Front 22

What is blind sight?

Back 22

vision without awareness; a condition in which an individual with a damaged visual cortex claims not to see an object

Front 23

what is the term for sleep walking?

Back 23

somnambulism

Front 24

what is the term for sleep talking?

Back 24

somniloquy

Front 25

what is lucid dreaming?

Back 25

being able to control your dreams