Attention refers to:

Related Mcqs:

1. “Driver attention as a function of car radio sound” is a phrase in which the driver attention aspect represents the ____________?

   A. intervening variable
   B. independent variable
   C. dependent variable
   D. irrelevant variable

2. Javaid is a graduate student who is studying the way in which selective attention develops during the preadolescent years. He selected a group of 10-years-olds, and he assesses their selective attention every six months over a two-year period. In this example, Javaid is using:

   A. a longitudinal research design
   B. a sequential design
   C. a cross-sectional design
   D. a multi-factorial research design

3. According to Mischel and Shoda’s (1995) cognitive-effective units in the personality system, what category refers to how processes such as selective attention, interpretation, and categorization of events affect personality?

   A. Competencies
   B. Goals and values
   C. Affects
   D. Encodings

4. Attention is:

   A. A social state
   B. A Mental state
   C. An organic state
   D. An aptitudinal state

5. Attention and interest:

   A. Increase the peace of development
   B. Minimize the individual differences
   C. Reduce the responsibility of teacher
   D. Both (b) & (c)

6. By the perceptual organization of stimuli the person’s span of attention is ____________?

   A. Increased
   B. Decreased
   C. Divided
   D. Unaffected
   E. None of these

7. By the perceptual organization of stimuli the person’s span of attention is ____________?

   A. Increased
   B. Decreased
   C. Divided
   D. Unaffected
   E. None of these

8. A visual scene can be separated into two parts, the ______________ which is the object that commands our attention, and the ____________ which seems to exist continuously behind the object?

   A. figure, ground
   B. good form, good continuation
   C. ground, background
   D. good form, circumscription

9. Which of the following pictorial cues first came to the attention of Max Wertheimer during a train ride?

   A. relative size
   B. motive parallax
   C. patterns of shading
   D. texture gradient

10. Attention must be given to the selection of appropriate learning materials and to the gearing of teaching techniques to meet:

    A. Social needs
    B. Learner needs
    C. Educational needs
    D. Cultural needs