If You Are Supposed to Respond to Either of Two

question 197

Multiple Choice

If you are supposed to respond to either of two kinds of stimuli (such as the letter K or anything green) , then if one comes quickly after another, you are likely to miss the second one. This phenomenon is called?

• A) the attentional blink.
• B) the Stroop effect.
• C) change blindness.
• D) the representativeness heuristic.

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Definitions:

Pie Graph

A circular chart divided into sectors, each representing a proportion of the whole.

Ordinal Scale

A ranking scale in which data can be ordered but the intervals between values are not known or are not meaningful.

Frequency Distribution

The representation, either in a graph or table form, of how often each value occurs in a set of data.

Sample

A subset of individuals from a larger population, selected to represent the population in a study.