2.1a

What is the "cocktail party effect"?

• The ability to focus on a single voice in a noisy environment

• The ability to remember names at a party

• The ability to ignore background music

• The ability to multitask effectively

What is inattentional blindness?

• The inability to see due to poor lighting

• The failure to notice unexpected objects in plain sight

• The inability to focus on a single task

• The failure to remember past events

On a warm summer day, Kimberly tells her brother to put on a suit. Kimberly’s brother knows to put on a swimsuit instead of a business suit because of

• context.

• priming.

• bottom-up processing.

• clairvoyance.

What is the focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus

• dissociation
• stimulants
• hallucinations
• selective attention

A set of mental tendencies and assumptions that affects, top-down, what we hear, taste, feel, and see.

• context set

• perceptual set

• inattention blindness

• motivation