Describe the difference between selective attention and vigilance
What will be an ideal response?
In selective attention, we choose to attend to some stimuli and ignore others. Focusing our attention helps us execute other cognitive processes, such as verbal comprehension or problem solving. Vigilance refers to our ability to attend to a field of stimulation over a prolonged period, during which we seek to detect the appearance of a particular target stimulus of interest.
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The most important key in being referred to an employer with a job to offer is being:
a) well-dressed. c) remembered. b) well-liked. d) intelligent.
This type of memory holds the most recently activated portion of long-term memory, and it moves these activated elements into and out of brief, temporary memory storage
a. standard memory b. levels-of-processing memory c. working-memory d. connectionist memory
What represents solid school-and-community relations when determining how to best report an event featuring students who dominate language is NOT English?
a. School officials should ensure that this event is reported in both the local English paper as well as the appropriate foreign-language paper. b. School officials should ensure that this event is only reported in the local English paper. c. School officials should refrain from having this event reported at all in the local newspaper. d. There is not enough evidence to make a determination regarding the appropriate newspaper that should report this event.
Creative thinking differs from critical thinking in which one of the following aspects?
A. logical B. inventive C. motivational D. not rational