What do studies of inattentional blindness tell us about selective attention to surprising
visual events? In your answer, describe research on inattentional blindness.
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should define inattentional blindness and describe Simons and Chabris'
"gorilla" study. A strong answer would also go on to describe a change blindness study. Finally,
the answer should draw the conclusion that we do not always notice surprising visual events if
our attention is focused elsewhere and we rely on the stability or continuity of the surrounding
context.
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Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) performed a famous experiment on cognitive dissonance in which subjects were asked to lie to a fellow student (about how fun a psychology experiment was) for either $1 or $20 . For subjects in the $1 condition, dissonance was created because these subjects thought to themselves: "I am a nice, ethical person, but I have just been mean and told a lie." It appears that
the $1 subjects were ultimately able to reduce this dissonance by thinking to themselves: ____. a. "I did not really tell a lie because the experiment was not that boring. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think that it was kind of fun!" b. "I know I told that person a lie. But so what? There are bigger problems in this world!!" c. "Lying is a terrible thing. I swear that I will never do it again." d. "Whatever! I got $1 for doing almost nothing! Good deal!!"
Physiological needs must be met
a. by caretakers. c. in order to be happy. b. by the environment. d. in order to survive.
According to the text it is inaccurate to describe parents from non-Western cultures as "authoritarian" because ______
each of these subcultural groups has its own distinctive form of warmth for their children parenting style has no cultural boundaries so an accurate picture cannot be taken the parents of these subcultural groups are more likely to be indulgent, having both low responsiveness and low demandingness there are too few of these subcultural groups to develop an accurate picture of the parenting styles that these parents possess
_____ occurs when other information competes with the information we are trying to recall.
a. Repression b. Interference c. Absent-mindedness d. Blocking