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Chapter 8
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1. The Donders A reaction is also known as the _______________.
2. In a(n) _______________, each stimulus is associated with its own response.
3. In the Donders C reaction, there is (one, more than one) _______________
stimulus that is/are linked to a response.
4. The _______________ is the procedure Donders used to estimate the time of
various cognitive operations.
5. A(n) _______________ variable is any uncontrolled variable that systematically
covaries with an independent variable.
6. For a particular person on a particular task, there is a(n) _______________
relation between response time and accuracy.
7. Stimulus onset asynchrony refers to the _______________ between the
presentation of two stimuli.
8. Early in the history of psychology, _______________ was used as a systematic
way of examining one’s own consciousness.
9. The assumption of _______________ predicts that if a component of a complex
cognitive process is deleted, the duration of the other components will not be
altered.
10. In reaction-time experiments, the existence of a _______________ can be
assessed by examining speed and accuracy between/among conditions.
11. ____________________ models explain the psychological refractory period for
R2 by assuming that R1 and R2 require the same processing stage.
12. ____________________ models explain the psychological refractory period for
R2 by assuming that R1 and R2 rely on the same resource called “capacity”.
13. ____________________ refers to our ability to dynamically shift attention from
one aspect of a stimulus to another aspect.
14. The fact that astronomers differed in their reaction times was named
_______________.
15. The ___________________ is a period during which additional cognitive
activities are difficult to manage.