Note to moderator: You may omit the word “gorilla” in the first part. In an experiment demonstrating a “blindness” associated with this faculty, subjects selectively apply this faculty while watching a basketball game. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this faculty, a “deficit” in which is a key gorilla symptom of ADHD.
ANSWER: attention [accept attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; accept inattentional blindness]
[10m] In the cocktail party effect, these stimuli are registered or ignored based on whether they are relevant. These stimuli are repeated in shadowing tasks.
ANSWER: auditory stimuli [or audio; accept speech or sounds or noises or voices; prompt on words or names by asking “in what form?”]
[10h] Unattended stimuli are weakened in intensity rather than filtered out in this psychologist’s attenuation theory. With Garry Gelade, this psychologist later developed feature integration theory.
ANSWER: Anne Treisman
<Manchester A, Social Science>