chapter 5

Question 1

inattentional blindness

Answer 1

The failure to perceive an object or event that occurs in plain sight. The failure is not due to visual impairments

Question 2

Change Blindness

Answer 2

A type of inattentional blindness in which people have difficulty detecting the difference between two versions of a picture that are alternatively present.

Question 3

Inattentional deafness

Answer 3

a phenomenon in which auditory information is not perceived when a different high load task is being performed

Question 4

Attention as a filter

Answer 4

desired information makes it through, while other information is discarded

Question 5

Selective attention

Answer 5

occurs when someone pays attention to one thing at the expense of all others. For example, we can selectively attend to a specific object or location in an environment filled with other competing objects or locations.

Question 6

Cocktail party effect

Answer 6

An example of selective attention when the ability to attend to a specific voice in an environment where other, competing voices are present as well