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Eastern Kentucky University
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PSY 317 | Cognitive Psychology
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2021
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Chapters 4-5 Quiz Answers: 1. Suppose twin teenagers are vying for their mother’s attention. The mother is trying to pay attention to one of her daughters, though both girls are talking (one about her boyfriend, one about a school project). According to the operating characteristics of Treisman’s attenuator, it is most likely the attenuator is analyzing the incoming messages in terms of Correct Answer: Meaning 2. If you are folding towels while watching television, you may find that you don’t have to pay much attention to the act of folding while keeping up with the storyline on the TV show. Folding the towels would be an example of a(n) ________ task. Correct Answer: Low-Load 3. The three structural components of the modal model of memory are Correct Answer: sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory. 4. Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence 14929111776? Correct Answer: .1492 911 1776 5. Before going to the grocery store, Jamal quickly made a list in his head of the few items he needed to cook dinner. Driving to the store, he repeated the list over and over to himself so that he wouldn’t forget anything. How would Broadbent describe Jamal’s actions in the car? Correct Answer: Rehearsal in short-term memory 6. A task with the instructions “Read the following words while repeating ‘the, the, the’ out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember” would most likely be studying Correct Answer: articulatory suppression. 7. The technique where the participant’s task is to focus on the message in one ear, called the attended ear, and to repeat what he or she is hearing out loud is known as Correct answer: dichotic listening. 8. Which of the following is the process by which features such as color, form motion, and location are combined to create our perception of a coherent object? Correct answer: Binding 9. The difficulty we have in recognizing even an obvious alteration in a scene is called __________ blindness. Correct Answer: Change 10. It is easier to perform two tasks at the same time if Correct Answer: one is handled by the visuospatial sketch pad and one is handled by the phonological loop.