Lesson 2.2.2

2.2.2 Attention: auditory and visual inattention Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 2

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The 20 questions

  1. Which core study in cognitive psychology investigated auditory inattention using shadowing tasks?

    • Baron-Cohen
    • Milgram
    • Moray
    • Piliavin

  2. What primary method was used by Moray to present different auditory stimuli simultaneously to participants?

    • Free recall
    • Dichotic listening
    • Split-field
    • Binocular rivalry

  3. In Moray's study, what term describes repeating aloud the message presented to the attended ear?

    • Filtering
    • Shadowing
    • Masking
    • Blocking

  4. Which famous phenomenon was tested in Moray's Experiment 2 regarding unattended auditory messages?

    • Zeigarnik effect
    • Halo effect
    • Cocktail party effect
    • Primacy effect

  5. What was the independent variable in Moray's first experiment regarding instructions?

    • Word speed
    • List type
    • Pitch height
    • Ear volume

  6. What percentage of shadowed messages were correctly recalled when presented with instructions in Moray Experiment 1?

    • Nearly all
    • Over ninety
    • Exactly half
    • Very few

  7. Which core study investigated visual inattention and inattentional blindness using a video clip?

    • Simons and Chabris
    • Linton and Wells
    • Loftus and Palmer
    • Kahneman and Tversky

  8. What unexpected umbrella-wielding character walked through the basketball video in Simons and Chabris?

    • Postman
    • Policeman
    • Clown
    • Gorilla

  9. Approximately what overall percentage of observers failed to notice the unexpected event in Simons and Chabris?

    • Twenty percent
    • Ten percent
    • Ninety percent
    • Fifty percent

  10. What cognitive mechanism prevents us from processing all sensory input simultaneously, leading to inattention?

    • Sensory echo
    • Iconic buffer
    • Attention filter
    • Memory trace

  11. Sarah focuses intensely on reading a book and misses her friend calling her name. What does this demonstrate?

    • Memory decay
    • Visual blindness
    • Auditory inattention
    • Sensory adaptation

  12. During a driving test, a candidate stares straight ahead and misses a cyclist in their peripheral vision. Apply the concept.

    • Sensory overload
    • Semantic priming
    • Inattentional blindness
    • Auditory shadowing

  13. A participant in a dichotic listening task fails to notice that the unattended language changed to German. What is this?

    • Unattended ignoring
    • Bilingual fluency
    • Phonetic coding
    • Semantic shifting

  14. If a participant counts white passes in the Simons and Chabris video, what is their primary task called?

    • Priming task
    • Distractor task
    • Control task
    • Monitoring task

  15. What type of experimental design was predominantly used across both Moray and Simons and Chabris studies?

    • Matched pairs
    • Independent measures
    • Repeated measures
    • Naturalistic observation

  16. Which factor significantly increases the likelihood of a person experiencing inattentional blindness according to Simons and Chabris?

    • Task difficulty
    • Participant age
    • Audio volume
    • Time of day

  17. Why did Moray's participants occasionally notice their own name in the unattended ear despite shadowing?

    • Higher pitch
    • Louder volume
    • Slower tempo
    • Personal importance

  18. How does capacity model theory explain why people miss unexpected stimuli during high-load tasks?

    • Unlimited memory
    • Sensory fatigue
    • Limited processing
    • Passive decay

  19. Which brain structure acts as an early sensory filter to block out unattended auditory information?

    • Reticular formation
    • Hippocampus
    • Amygdala
    • Broca's area

  20. Which specific brain area is primarily associated with top-down visual attention control during filtering tasks?

    • Parietal cortex
    • Medulla oblongata
    • Cerebellum
    • Occipital lobe

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