chapter 11

Question 1

Sir Frederic Bartlett

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father of British psychology

Question 2

sir Frederic Bartlett

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argued for reconstructive nature of memory

Question 3

sir Frederic Bartlett

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wrote “Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology”

Question 4

reconstructive nature of memory (sir Francis Bartlett)

Answer 4

introduced the concept of schema

Question 5

reconstructive nature of memory

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Believed memory was influenced by schemas, particularly when constructing/reconstructing memories

Question 6

Donald Broadbent

Answer 6

developed filter model of attention

Question 7

Donald broadent

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researched impact of noise on work performance with British navy

Question 8

who wrote perception and communication

Answer 8

Donald Broadbent

Question 9

Donald Broadbent

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described humans as an information processing system

Question 10

Donald Broadbent

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Believed humans were more complicated than simple input output model of behaviorism

Question 11

Donald Broadbent

Answer 11

Challenged that environmental stimulus elicited an organism’s response

Question 12

filter model (1980)

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Description of attention as a bottleneck that limits the amount of information coming into the organism

Question 13

dichotic listening task

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A laboratory task in which the participant hears two different streams of speech through left and right headphones and is asked to only attend to one of them

Question 14

anne treisman

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Proposed the attenuation model and then the feature of integration theory of attention

Question 15

attenuation model

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Attention increases the intensity of wanted stimulus and decreases the intensity of the unwanted stimulus

Question 16

cocktail party effect

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meaningful information items in unattended stream came through the filter that was supposedly blocking the unattended stream

Question 17

feature integration theory of attention

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A perceptual and attentional theory that explains how an individual combines pieces of observable information about an object in order to form a complete perception of the object

Question 18

pre attention stage (feature integration theory of attention)

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Individual focuses on one distinguishing feature of the object

Question 19

focused sustained attention stage (feature integration theory of attention)

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Individual has to take all of the observed features and combine them to make a complete perception

Question 20

New Look Movement

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Argued for the important role that mental states play in our view of the world

Question 21

Jerome Bruner

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American developmental psychologist who was one of the founders of the Cognitive Revolution

Question 22

Leo Postman

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American cognitive psychologist who developed the interference theory of forgetting

Question 23

role of expectation in perception

Answer 23

Using a tachistoscope, they flashed images of playing cards at increasing intervals, ranging from 10 to 1,000 ms, ask participants to call out playing card that they see, half of colors reversed