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NPTEL Cognitive Psychology Week 3 Assignment Solution
According to Attenuation theory of Treisman, people tend to process:
- A) only to the level of physical characteristics.
- B) only to the level of linguistic characteristics, separating it into words.
- C) at a semantic level, analyzing for meaning most of the time.
- D) only as much as is necessary to separate the attended from the unattended message.
The “cocktail party effect” refers to the fact that shadowing performance is disrupted when _______ is embedded in the unattended message.
- A) backward speech
- B) the listener’s name
- C) a section of repeated words
- D) music
In Kahneman’s model of attention, preferences for certain kinds of tasks are known as:
- A) enduring dispositions
- B) arousal states
- C) late selection preferences
- D) momentary intentions
The word “cat” is ______ by the phrase “The dog chased the….”
- A) filtered
- B) attenuated
- C) primed
- D) suggested
Hearing your name in another conversation across the room is an example of the:
- A) filter effect
- B) dichotic listening phenomenon
- C) cocktail party effect
- D) attenuation effect
Which would NOT be a reasonable basis for filtering in Broadbent’s model?
- A) Direction of sound
- B) Pitch of voice
- C) Loudness of voice
- D) Language of the message
Criteria for automatic processing include all EXCEPT:
- A) intentional occurrence
- B) conscious awareness
- C) interference with other tasks
- D) requirement of mental filtering
An involuntary shift of attention caused by a salient stimulus is called:
- A) Stroop effect
- B) attentional capture
- C) attenuation
- D) cocktail party effect
Stroop interference lessens when:
- A) participants are better readers
- B) participants practice naming colors
- C) participants are girls
- D) participants focus carefully
Research on divided attention suggests that:
- A) some people multitask without loss
- B) there are no limits to attention
- C) multitasking improves with task difficulty
- D) multitasking often involves rapid task switching
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