A. Perceptual adaptation
B. Relative clarity
C. Change blindness
D. The cocktail party effect
Related Mcqs:
- After he suffered a stroke, Mr. Salim’s physical coordination skills and responsiveness to sensory stimulation quickly returned to normal unfortunately, however, he began to experience unusual difficulty figuring out how to find his way to various locations in his neighborhood. it most likely that Mr. Salim suffered damage to his:
A. cerebellum
B. autonomic nervous system
C. thalamus
D. association areas - Because she believes that boys are naughtier than girls, Mrs. Zumpano, a second-grade teacher, watches boys more closely than she watch girls for any signs of misbehavior. Mrs. Zumpano’s surveillance strategy best illustrates:
A. the framing effect
B. the availability heuristic
C. confirmation bias
D. functional fixedness - Mrs. Aftab is just beginning to experience sensorineural hearing loss. She is likely to have the greatest difficulty hearing sounds of:
A. High frequency and high amplitude
B. Low frequency and high amplitude
C. Low frequency and low amplitude
D. High frequency and low amplitude - After she received a free hand- painted Christmas ornament from a religious organization, Mrs. Montevecchi felt obligated to mail a cash donation to the organization, Her response to the free gift best illustrates the impact of:
A. the fundamental attribution error
B. the just- world phenomenon
C. the mere exposure effect
D. the reciprocity norm - Ms. Sadaf, a recent stroke victim, cannot consciously perceive the large book on the coffee table in front of her Yet, when urged to identify the book, she correctly reads aloud the printed title on the book cover. Her response best illustrates:
A. Synesthesia
B. Blindsight
C. Subliminal perception
D. The McGurk effect - The light around the movie marquee flashed on-and-off in succession However, Jamil did not perceive them as separate lights flashing, but instead saw a continuous band of light moving around the edge of the marquee. Jamil’s perception illustrates:
A. Feature detection.
B. Bottom-up processing
C. Pre-attentive processing
D. The phi phenomenon - Only when experimental participants were informed that a women was raped did they perceive the women’s behavior as inviting rape> This best illustrates that victim- blaming is fueled by:
A. deindividuation
B. the bystander effect
C. the mere exposure effect
D. hindsight bias - It has been suggested that Alaskan Eskimos’ rich vocabulary for describing snow enables them to perceive differences in snow conditions that would otherwise go unnoticed. This suggestion most clearly illustrates:
A. belief perseverance
B. the farming effect
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. linguistic determinism - As she gazed down from a bridge at the rapidly flowing river. Naila felt as though she were moving. Her experience best illustrates the phenomenon of:
A. Retinal disparity
B. The phi phenomenon
C. Visual capture
D. Location constancy - Mr. Walters has many years of experience as a personal officers for a large corporation. He does not review most job applicants’ reference files because he is confident of his ability to predict their future work performance based on his direct face-to-face conversations with them. Mr. Walters’ confidence best illustrates:
A. the interviewer illusion
B. social leadership
C. 360-degree feedback
D. the halo error
