Cards

Question 1

What phenomenon occurs when drivers may fail to notice another car when trying to turn or a person may fail to see a friend in a cinema when looking for an empty seat, even if the friend is waving?

Answer 1

Attentional Capture

Question 2

Who was Damasios patient, Elliot?

Answer 2

A man who had damage occur to his frontal lobe and became unable to make decisions, resulting in his entire life falling apart.

Question 3

What occurs when an individual’s exposure to a certain stimulus influences their response to a subsequent prompt, without any awareness of the connection?

Answer 3

Priming

Question 4

Forgetting something purposefully can also be called what?

Answer 4

Motivated Context Shift

Question 5

What is a type of thinking or cognition that does not involve any effort or deliberation?

Answer 5

Automatic Processing

Question 6

What is the belief that individuals from a distinct category, such as class, gender, sex, or ethnicity, possess an unchanging characteristic that causes their behavior and appearance?

Answer 6

Essentialism

Question 7

What is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses?

Answer 7

Cognition

Question 8

What experiment requires the subject to shadow, or repeat aloud, a message presented to one ear while ignoring a message presented to the other ear?

Answer 8

Dichotic Listening

Question 9

What says that people do not process unattended stimuli beyond the analysis of basic physical properties?

Answer 9

Broadbent’s Filter Model

Question 10

What occurs when occurs when an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight, purely as a result of a lack of attention rather than any vision defects or deficits, such as the people passing the ball as a gorilla walks through?

Answer 10

Inattentional Blindness

Question 11

_________ is a near-instantaneous process; it happens automatically, intuitively, and with little effort

Answer 11

System 1 Processing

Question 12

________ is the more “analytical,” “deliberate” and “rational” side to the thinking process

Answer 12

System 2 Processing

Question 13

What is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it? Ex. Flashing a picture over and over but not noticing the changes made to it.

Answer 13

Change Blindess

Question 14

What is control of one’s internal psychological processes by external stimuli and events in one’s immediate environment, often without knowledge or awareness of such control?

Answer 14

Automaticity

Question 15

What is the attainment by an individual of new behavior, information, or skills or the process by which this occurs?

Answer 15

Acquisition

Question 16

What does the modal model tell us?

Answer 16

as information enters the brain, it is encoded and stored in memory systems, including the sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory, but this is NO LONGER TRUE.

Question 17

What is short term memory now called?

Answer 17

Working memory

Question 18

What is the psychological tendency to remember the last items in a list better than those in the middle?

Answer 18

Recency Effect

Question 19

What is the psychological tendency to remember the first items in a list better than those in the middle?

Answer 19

Primacy Effect