TB6 P&C Lecture 1; Models of attention

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1. What is the main premise of Kahnemans capacity model?

  • Any task demands capacity from the limited mental pool, relative to the persons experience
  • Any task demands capacity from the unlimited mental pool, relative to the persons experience
  • Stimuli independently use up a set amount of resources
  • Resource allocation is only due to bottom-up processes
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2. What is the main premise of 'attention'?

  • Brain has finite capacity; attention used as a resource allocation tool
  • The brain has limited capacity; attention used to prevent system overload
  • Brain has infinite capacity; attention used as a resource allocation tool
  • The brain has bioenergetic limitations preventing undivided attention

3. Which of these tasks support late selection?

  • Stroop task
  • Dichotic shadowing tasks
  • Phoneme monitering
  • Click displacement

4. Was there a decrease in performance when pps had to switch between modalities in which the stimuli were presented? (Broadbent 1956)

  • Yes, alternating between modalities created a performance decrement
  • Yes, alternating etween modalities created a performance decrement but only when it was visual-written
  • No, alternating between modalities did not create a performance decrement
  • No, alternating between modalities did not create a performance decrement in spoken tasks

5. What defines the stimulus and response set?

  • STIMULUS = basis of the physical properties of the input, RESPONSE = basis of mental categories that do not share physical property
  • STIMULUS = basis of mental categories that do not share physical property RESPONSE = basis of the physical properties of the input

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