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2.1 Practice Test1. Jeffery drives to work every day. If he gets a text he will nearly always reply, unless at
a junction. Whenever somebody says that texting while driving is dangerous he
believes he must be an exception as he feels that both texting and driving come
naturally to him so he isn’t very distracted. What phenomenon describes this?
a. Inattentional blindness
b. Inattentional bias
c. Mistaken intuition
d. Filter theory
2. In the Monkey Business experiment by Chabris & Simons, participants were told to
focus on the amount of ball passes in the white team, meanwhile a gorilla walked
through the scene yet most participants failed to notice this. Which of the following
could make people more likely to notice the gorilla?
a. If the gorilla wore a white tee-shirt
b. If the passes between the white team were faster
c. If a reward was attached to accurate counting of the ball passes
d. If the gorilla was made smaller
3. In reference to the shadowing experiment by Cherry, which of the following
statements is correct?
i. Participants would likely notice if the unattended message changed language
ii. Participants would likely notice if the unattended message changed from a
male to a female voice
a. i is correct
b. ii is correct
c. both are correct
d. both are incorrect
4. Which of the following models describes the filter as not blocking out, but
weakening stimuli which are not the target stimuli?
a. Broadbent’s model
b. Selective Filter Model
c. Attenuation Model
d. Synthesis Model
5. What did the Reward group of the Olivers and Nieuwenhuis experiment show?
a. Money was not a sufficient motivator
b. Increased motivation wasn’t a reason for improved performance
c. Increased motivation is a reason for improved performance
d. Detection of T2 was significantly better if in the reward group
6. Which of the following is NOT a key factor (following on from the Cherry shadowing
experiment) in selective attention?
a. Location of the sound source
b. Sensory characteristics of target speech
c. Sound reproducibility
d. Sound intensity
7. What is the correct term for a basic unit in the short-term memory?
a. Chunk
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