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111. When grading her top student’s term paper in an English : 1201915
111. When grading her top student’s term paper in an English literature course, Dr. Dickinson did not notice several spelling errors. However, she did not miss any spelling errors on her other students’ papers. Missing her top student’s spelling errors might indicate that Dr. Dickinson was utilizing a lot of _____ processing when grading papers.
A. feature detection
B. top-down
C. parallel distributed
D. bottom-up
112. You are looking at an abstract work of art and it makes no sense to you. But when you read the title of the picture the meaning becomes perfectly clear. This is because the title allowed you to engage in _____ processing.
A. bottom-up
B. parallel
C. interposition
D. top-down
113. A witness to a robbery claimed that the robber had a gun, although later examination of the surveillance video showed that this was not true. The witness’s perception of the event was likely influenced by
A. grouping principles.
B. the simplicity principle.
C. bottom-up processing.
D. schemas.
114. Shayna is from a culture that does not use pictures or paintings to represent reality. Shayna will most likely experience difficulty with all of the following except
A. sorting pictures of three-dimensional objects into categories.
B. judging distances shown in photographs.
C. sorting three-dimensional objects into categories.
D. judging distances shown in paintings.
115. Culture and social class can affect perception through their influence on
A. experiential focus.
B. prior screening.
C. maturational capabilities.
D. expectations.
116. Nine-month-old Keisha watches her ball bounce down the stairs. As she approaches the top of the stairs, she backs up and hesitates to go down the stairs. This indicates that Keisha has developed
A. perceptual constancies.
B. binocular vision.
C. depth perception.
D. proximity.
117. While babysitting, Kary notices that if she turns off the TV, the baby will continue to watch the TV for a very short while and then stop looking at it. This is called
A. dishabituation.
B. habituation.
C. adaptive looking.
D. preattention.
118. According to research on perception in infants, the first thing that infants should be able to do after birth is to
A. scan around the edges of an object.
B. pay attention to a human face.
C. distinguish between colors.
D. perceive depth.
119. Which of the following statements about attention is not true?
A. High-contrast stimuli tend to attract attention.
B. Sometimes it’s easier to divide attention than to focus on one task.
C. The focus of attention is determined in part by motivation.
D. There are no limitations on the capacity to divide attention.
120. Judith is listening to a lecture when suddenly her attention shifts to the date she had last night. By shifting her attention without moving a muscle, Judith has engaged in
A. covert orienting.
B. overt orienting.
C. the Stroop effect.
D. divided attention.
121. Angie is trying to take notes in her class but finds it difficult because of the loud “I Love Don Ho!” Hawaiian shirt that the teaching assistant is wearing. Instead of staring intently at the teaching assistant’s shirt, she should use _____ orienting to move her eyes from the shirt to the notes on the blackboard.
A. covert
B. overt
C. implicit
D. selective
122. Chris is looking for his fourth-grade stalker in an old yearbook. He forgot her name, but mistakenly thinks that she wore braces. As he scans the yearbook pictures, Chris unconsciously skips over anyone not wearing braces, therefore failing to find his stalker. Chris’ blocking out of a part of his environment was due to
A. inattentional blindness.
B. reduced planfulness.
C. serial processing.
D. retinal disparity.
123. While working at your computer, you are able to quickly find the cursor because of
A. serial processing.
B. covert orientation.
C. inattentional orientation.
D. parallel processing.
124. Molly can’t understand how her roommate is able to read and sing along with the radio at the same time. Her roommate says that she always studies this way and makes good grades. In this example, the roommate’s attention can be divided easily because
A. of top-down processing.
B. of bottom-up processing.
C. she has developed skill in inattentional blindness.
D. her singing requires few attentional resources.
125. During psychology class, Marissa is watching the instructor when someone accidentally drops a book, making a loud sound. Marissa immediately turns her head and shifts her attention to look at the book. This is an example of _____ orienting that involves _____ control.
A. overt; voluntary
B. covert; involuntary
C. covert; voluntary
D. overt; involuntary
