Dr Sigrid Lipka

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• Dr Sigrid Lipka
• s.lipka_at_derby.ac.uk
• Essential reading
• Eysenck, M. W., Keane M. T. (2001). Cognitive
  psychology. Psychology Press Hove, UK.

• Attention quiz

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• Once you have worked through the lecture and
  related activities and done some further reading
  around the topic then you may be ready to test
  your knoweldge with this quiz.
• If you are having problems answering any
  questions then go and check your notes or your
  textbooks for the correct answer and have a think
  about why you got the answer wrong. Re-read the
  appropriate section either from your notes or
  your textbook or all of them and have another go.

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• 1. Focussed attention is
• a) presenting two or more stimulus inputs at
  the same time with instruction to respond to both
  of them
• b) ignoring the gender of the speaker in the
  shadowed message
• c) presenting two or more stimulus inputs at
  the same time with instruction to respond to one
  of them
• d) presenting two or more stimulus inputs at
  the same time with instruction to respond to none
  of them
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 2. Tasks that present two different auditory
  messages to each ear are known as
• a) shadowing tasks
• b) filter tasks
• c) dichotic listening tasks
• d) sensory buffer tasks
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 3. According to Cherry, which characteristic of
  the unshadowed message was NOT remembered by the
  subjects?
• a) gender of speaker
• b) pure tones
• c) reversed speech
• d) intensity of sound
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 4. Who believed that the filter in selective
  attention was flexible?
• a) cherry
• b) deutsch deutsch
• c) treisman
• d) broadbent
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 5. The problem with research on the effects of
  task difficulty in dual-task performance is that
• a) studies lack ecological validity
• b) gender differences are rarely taken into
  account
• c) all of these
• d) one task can be harder than another in
  several ways
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 6. Which one of these is NOT a criterion of
  automatic processes?
• a) unconscious
• b) rapid
• c) non-attentive
• d) limits processing capacity
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 7. Which one of these is a characteristic of
  controlled processes?
• a) tasks are dealt with serially
• b) tasks operate in parallel
• c) tasks are difficult to modify
• d) tasks are easy to modify
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 8. Which of these is an essential part of
  Broadbent's filter theory of attention?
• a) iconic store
• b) sensory buffer
• c) echoic store
• d) central executive
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• 9. Who's theory of attention was known as
  Attenuation theory?
• a) treisman
• b) broadbent
• c) deutsch deutsch
• d) neisser
• Please select the correct answer
• a) b) c)
  d)

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• The End