CogPsy - The Nature of Attention and Consciousness II

Question 1

Habituation involves …

Answer 1

… our becoming accustomed to a stimulus so that we gradually pay less and less attention to it.

Question 2

In dishabituation …

Answer 2

… a change in a familiar stimulus prompts us to start noticing the stimulus again.

Question 3

Two factors influencing habituation:

Answer 3

• internal variation within the stimulus

- subjective arousal

Question 4

Habituation is not the same as sensory …

Answer 4

… adaptation.

Question 5

What kind of processes can occur in parallal and are also called parallel processes?

Answer 5

automatic processes

Question 6

controlled processes need to be performed …

Answer 6

… serially.

Question 7

Process by which controlled processes become automatic processes?

Answer 7

automatization aka. proceduralization

Question 8

A widely accepted view of automatization holds that …

Answer 8

… we gradually combine individual effortful steps into integrated components until the whole process is only one operation.

Question 9

Stroop effect?

Answer 9

WHITE or

TWO TWO TWO

Question 10

Mistakes vs. slips:

Answer 10

Mistakes involve errors in internal controlled processes.

Slips often involve errors in automatic processes.

Question 11

Slips associated with automatic processes:

Answer 11

• capture errors
• omissions
• perservations
• description errors
• data-driven errors
• associative-activation errors
• loss-of-activation errors

Question 12

How to study things outside the conscious awareness?

Answer 12

with priming

Question 13

Blindsight

Answer 13

traces of visual perceptual ability in blind areas

Question 14

Priming

Answer 14

participants are presented with a first stimulus (the prime) -> break -> second stimulus and make a judgement
Effect of prime on second stimulus?