PSYC 230 UIUC FINAL EXAM NEWEST

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PSYC 230 UIUC FINAL EXAM NEWEST

NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM 120 QUESTIONS

AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+

a high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that - ANSWER- It takes a strong signal to cause activation

if you are folding towels that have just come out of the laundry while watching TV, you may find that you don't have to pay much attention to the process of folding. This sort of familiar task that does not require much of your attention would be an example of what kind of task? - ANSWER- low-load

the stroop effect demonstrates people's inability to ignore the - ANSWER- meaning of words

Results of precueing experiments show that participants respond more rapidly to a stimulus that appeared at the ____ location. - ANSWER- cued

Imagine that U.S. lawmakers are considering changing the driving laws and that you have been consulted as an attention expert. Given the principles of divided attention, in which of the 1 / 3

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following conditions would a person have the most difficulty with driving and therefore pose the biggest safety risk on the road? - ANSWER- when the person is driving an unfamiliar vehicle that is more difficult to operate

In Schneider and Shiffrin's experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate whether a target stimulus was present in a series of rapidly presented "frames," divided attention was easier

• ANSWER- once processing had become automatic

scene schema is - ANSWER- knowledge about what is contained in typical scenes

During a visit to the local museum, you appreciate the incredible beauty of the paintings displayed on the wall. Your ability to see the paintings as complete pictures rather than individual, disconnected dots of color, texture, and location is because of a process called _______. - ANSWER- binding

in the monkey business illusion, participant watched a film of people playing basketball. many failed to report that a person in a gorilla suit walked through because - ANSWER- participants were counting the number of ball passes

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at the massachusetts institute of technology symposium on the information theory, george miller presented a paper suggesting that - ANSWER- there are limits to the human ability to process information

Viewpoint ________ is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives. - ANSWER- invariance

If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, this would be an example of _____ processing. - ANSWER- top-down

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law? - ANSWER- Good Figure/Pragnanz

your textbook author points out that studying the mind requires both _______ experiments - ANSWER- behavioral; physiological

using behavior to infer mental processes is the basic principle of

• ANSWER- cognitive psychology
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