PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Cocktail Party, Sat, Timeshare
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You are at a cocktail party conversing with a friend. Participants are asked to report the shape of a visual stimulus that appears on the left side of a screen. Simultaneous with the presentation of this target stimulus, a second visual stimulus is flashed on the screen. Some resources are task specific and others are task general. Individuals with greater working-memory capacity will tend to show advantages over those with smaller working-memory capacity. Except when a) completing the stroop task. b) initiating routinized, automatic tasks. c) taking the verbal section of the scholastic aptitude test (sat). d) inhibiting automatized responses. In one experiment, participants were shown a stimulus preceded by a neutral cue, a correct prime, or a misleading prime. For some participants, the primes were usually correct (high validity), and for others they were usually misleading (low validity). Tv channel. d) while upstairs talking to your best friend, you pretend not to hear your mother calling you to dinner.
