A. our attention depends on different motor systems
B. we use selective attention
C. we use divided attention
D. we use sequential attention
Related Mcqs:
- The fact that that we can walk and chew gun at the same time illustrates that:
A. our attention depends on different motor system
B. we use selective attention
C. we use divided attention
D. we use sequential attention - In a weight-reduction experiment, an overweight individual was given what the researcher called a new type of diet pill that would help curb the desire to eat in fact. the pill really contained powdered milk, but ever since the individual started taking the diet pill, he has reported that his desire to eat has decreased. This illustrates the:
A. curvilinear relationship
B. effect of extraneous variables
C. natural experiment
D. placebo effect - Farida was informed by a professional palm reader. “You generally communicate openly with others, but you have certain dark secrets that even your closest friends could never guess.” The fact that Farida was impressed by the palm reader’s insight into her personality best illustrates:
A. the Barnum effect
B. the spotlight effect
C. the self-reference phenomenon
D. unconditional positive regard - Experiments with children have suggested that the point at which a child begins to walk is primarily a function of ______________?
A. learning
B. environment
C. modeling
D. maturation - Gibson and Walk used a ‘visual cliff’ experiment to study ______________?
A. figure-ground discrimination
B. depth perception
C. feature detection
D. signal detection theory - You walk into a dark movie theater wearing a white shirt, and notice that the shirt now looks gray. However, you know that the shirt is still white because of _________________?
A. size constancy
B. brightness constancy
C. linear perspective
D. texture gradient - Which TWO of the following statements are true of parsing?
1.Psycholinguistics has been especially concerned with how people parse sentences- that is, how they break them down into their correct phonological structures.
2.Parsing has to be done because otherwise, it would be impossible to interpret a sentence to all.
3.The difficulty in understanding some sentences can be ascribed to an initial misinterpretation ; this is called a ‘country walk’.
4.Misparsing a sentence can result in failure in comprehension at all levels.A. 1 & 2
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 4
D. 3 & 4 - Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:
A. functional fixedness
B. the farming effect
C. the representativeness heuristic
D. over confidence - The influence of schemas on our interpretations of ambiguous sensations best illustrates:
A. the phi phenomenon
B. visual capture
C. shape constancy
D. top-down processing - The rubber-hand illusion best illustrates the importance of:
A. feature detection
B. blindsight
C. top-down processing
D. synesthesia
