In listening to two conversations simultaneously, it is possible to attend to one and ignore the other if the differ in ______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. The fact that some people often ignore their hunger and skip lunch in anticipation of a special dinner is a direct contradiction to the_____theory of motivation.

   A. opponent-process
   B. drive reduction
   C. incentive
   D. arousal

3. Dichotic listening tasks are used to study _______________?

   A. selective attention
   B. spontaneous recovery
   C. good continuation
   D. echoic memory

4. Because she was listening to the news on the radio, Mrs. Salim didn’t perceive a word her husband was saying. Her experience best illustrates:

   A. Perceptual adaptation
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Change blindness
   D. The cocktail party effect

5. An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning Two groups study the same material. one while listening to music. The independent variable is:

   A. learning
   B. the size of the group
   C. the material studied
   D. music

6. Socially the young child can only attend to one dimension at a time. In cognitive terms this is called ______________?

   A. accommodation
   B. egocentrism
   C. assimilation
   D. reversibility

7. Students stand in groups waiting for someone to unlock their classroom. The people in each group are able to attend to the voices in their own conversation group and screen out the voices in others. This is an example of ______________?

   A. shadowing
   B. selective listening
   C. parallel processing
   D. None of these

8. The method of study compares children at various ages simultaneously. It is the ____________ method?

   A. longitudinal
   B. clinical
   C. naturalistic
   D. cross-sectional

9. According to the Young-Helmholtz theory, when both red and green sensitive cones are stimulated simultaneously, a person should see:

   A. Green
   B. Orange
   C. Red
   D. Yellow

10. Males have been found to differ slightly from females in three well-documented areas of mental abilities. Which of the following is not one of these?

    A. verbal ability
    B. mathematical ability
    C. intelligence
    D. visual-spatial abilities