A: A salient stimulus is one more likely to be noticed because it contrasts with its surroundings. A 150-pound NFL player or a 75-year-old college freshman are two instances of salience. Sometimes the condition of the person sensing the stimulus can affect salience. For example, you're more likely to notice a fast food place if you are hungry when you drive by it.
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Q: On Exam 2A Version 3 from 2011, a question asks
"4. Despite the fact that Ruth generally designs subsystems that function smoothly and as specified, she failed to do so on one recent
project. Her supervisor might well attribute this performance to external circumstances on the basis of ____________ ."
"A. Low consensus. B. Low distinctiveness. C. High consistency. D. Low consistency. E. High consensus."
The answer is said to be "D." However, Low consistency is said to be unstable performance of a given task over time. Ruth was said that she designs functional subsystems and only on her most recent subsystem was there a problem. Wouldn't this be more related to distinctiveness, since it is in relation to her performance on a task and it has only been this one task that she has had a problem?
A: Good point, since I failed to make it clear enough that I'm using "performance" here to refer to the failed project, and not her overall performance. This failure is inconsistent with her overall performance, and its cause would likely be attributed to external circumstances. Best...mfThe answer is said to be "D." However, Low consistency is said to be unstable performance of a given task over time. Ruth was said that she designs functional subsystems and only on her most recent subsystem was there a problem. Wouldn't this be more related to distinctiveness, since it is in relation to her performance on a task and it has only been this one task that she has had a problem?
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Q: What does it mean when something is considered to be a low-differentiation error.
A: The three types of low differentiation errors--mainly just using part of a rating scale when doing a formal evaluation--are defined this way in the session 15 class slides. The actual definitions appear with other common perceptual errors in a table in chapter 2.
-------------------------------------------------------Q: What does it mean when something is considered to be a low-differentiation error.
A: The three types of low differentiation errors--mainly just using part of a rating scale when doing a formal evaluation--are defined this way in the session 15 class slides. The actual definitions appear with other common perceptual errors in a table in chapter 2.
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