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Question

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

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	17.50	92%	58%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	50%	25%
North	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	15.00	92%	58%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	50%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


UCLA B	UCI	10	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	20
UCSB	Claremont Scripps	10	10	20
UCLA A	UCSD Vices and Virtues	10	10	20
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	10
USC	UCLA C	10	10	20