chapter 3 vocab

Question 1

dichotic listening

Answer 1

an experimental task in which two messages are presented to different ears

Question 2

divided attention

Answer 2

the ability to flexibly allocate attentional resources between two or more cocurrent tasks

Question 3

inattentional blindness

Answer 3

the failure to notice a fully visible object when attention is devoted to something else

Question 4

limited capacity

Answer 4

the notion that humans have limited mental resources that can be used at a given time

Question 5

selective attention

Answer 5

the ability to select certain stimuli in the environment to process, while ignoring distracting information

Question 6

shadowing

Answer 6

a task in which the individual is asked to repeat an auditory message as it is presented

Question 7

subliminal perception

Answer 7

the ability to process information for meaning when the individual is not consciously aware of that information