In Schneider and Shiffrin's experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate whether a target stimulus was present in a series of rapidly presented frames, divided attention was easier
a. once processing had become automatic.
b. when processing was done verbally.
c. when verbal processing was prohibited by the experimenters.
d. when processing was more controlled.
Question 2
Imagine that U.S. lawmakers are considering changing the driving laws and that you have been consulted as an attention expert. Given the principles of divided attention, in which of the following conditions would a person have the most difficulty with driving and therefore pose the biggest safety risk on the road?
a. When the person has to drive to work early in the morning
b. When the driver is stuck in stop-and-go traffic
c. When the driver has to park in a crowded parking garage
d. When the person is driving an unfamiliar vehicle that is more difficult to operate
The standard protocol of a metagenomics experiment.
Ganzfeld experiment
A Schematic Description of the Experiment by Maviel et al. (2004)
Faces in experiment
Counterbalancing in the Predator Experiment
The transfer experiment that demonstrated the existence of RNA primers in DNA replication