Selective Attention and the Cocktail Party Effect Quiz
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What is the term for the ability to attend to one message and ignore others, even if the other messages are just as strong?

  • Sustained attention
  • Divided attention
  • Selective attention (correct)
  • Inattentional blindness

    • What is the term for the failure to detect something because we are not paying attention, even though the information is reaching our senses?

  • Automaticity
  • Divided attention
  • Change blindness
  • Inattentional blindness (correct)

    • What is the term for the performance that requires little or no intention, awareness, or effort, and occurs unintentionally, without conscious awareness?

  • Sustained attention
  • Automaticity (correct)
  • Divided attention
  • Selective attention

    • What is the term for continuously paying attention over a period of time?

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    What is the term for distributing our attention among several things at once?

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