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What is implicit processing?
What is implicit processing?
- Processing that is only perceptual
- Processing that is always conscious
- Processing that does not require attention (correct)
- Processing that requires conscious effort
What is the Orientating Response?
What is the Orientating Response?
- Deliberate allocation of mental effort
- Redirection of attention toward a significant and novel stimulus (correct)
- Gradual reduction of attention back to baseline
- The ability to attend to one source of information
What is the Spotlight of Attention?
What is the Spotlight of Attention?
- The ability to focus on a narrow or broad search space
- A mechanism for gradual reduction of the orienting response
- A mechanism that prepares you to encode stimulus information (correct)
- A deliberate, voluntary allocation of mental effort
What is Selective Attention?
What is Selective Attention?
What does Broadbent's Filter Theory propose?
What does Broadbent's Filter Theory propose?
What did Treisman's Attenuation Theory propose?
What did Treisman's Attenuation Theory propose?
What is automatic processing?
What is automatic processing?
What is the Stroop Task used for?
What is the Stroop Task used for?
What is the basic process of getting sensory information into the cognitive system?
What is the basic process of getting sensory information into the cognitive system?
Which mental process involves concentrating effort on a stimulus or a mental event?
Which mental process involves concentrating effort on a stimulus or a mental event?
What is the limited mental energy or resource that powers the mental system referred to as?
What is the limited mental energy or resource that powers the mental system referred to as?
What is a necessary precondition for processing information?
What is a necessary precondition for processing information?
What did Bonebakker et al.'s (1996) study aim to investigate?
What did Bonebakker et al.'s (1996) study aim to investigate?
What was the assumption behind Bonebakker et al.'s (1996) study?
What was the assumption behind Bonebakker et al.'s (1996) study?
What does controlled, voluntary attention refer to?
What does controlled, voluntary attention refer to?
What are the two general definitions of attention mentioned in the text?
What are the two general definitions of attention mentioned in the text?
What does input attention involve?
What does input attention involve?
What is an example of controlled, voluntary attention mentioned in the text?
What is an example of controlled, voluntary attention mentioned in the text?
