TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT (TMA)

This assignment is worth 10% of the final mark for HFS105: Cognition and Information Processing.

The cut-off date for this assignment is 23 March 2025, Sunday, 11.55 pm.

You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the TMA, SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.

Plagiarism and Collusion

Plagiarism and collusion are forms of cheating and are not acceptable in any form of a student’s work.

The electronic submission of your assignment will be screened through plagiarism detecting software. Your examiner will NOT mark any portion that cannot be read by Turnitin, unless otherwise specified. SUSS takes a tough stance against plagiarism and collusion. Serious cases will result in the student being referred to SUSS’s Student Disciplinary Group. For In other cases, significant marking penalties or expulsion from the course will be imposed.
Refer to the Student Handbook for disciplinary actions.

Reports with a high similarity index will be flagged for plagiarism review. You are to provide proper references when you use other people’s ideas, words or pictures (including diagrams). All references should be provided in the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 format. Please refer to this website: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammarguidelines/citations for APA guidelines.

Usage of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Grammarly)

AI tools can assist you in generating content and exploring ideas. However, we stronglyrecommend that you do not rely on AI tools for the following reasons:

• Assignments are designed to enhance your understanding of your subject. Thinking through your course materials, seeing their relevance in real life applications, and applying them to solve problems will help you develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the subject.

• While ChatGPT can generate responses for you, it cannot understand the specific context of your assignment. This could result in irrelevant answers which will impact your grades negatively. Be sure to verify the accuracy of the generated content and rephrase in your own words, before integrating in your own work in a responsible manner.

As part of your submission, include a declaration detailing how AI tools were utilized in the preparation of your report. This declaration should be placed on the last page, following the references section.

The declaration should cover the following points:

Non-Usage Declaration:

If you did not use any AI tools, please explicitly state this in your declaration. Example: “I did not use any AI tools in preparing my answers for this exam. The work submitted is entirely my own.”

Usage Declaration

• AI Tools: Specify the AI tools or platforms you have used (e.g., ChatGPT, Grammarly, Copilot).

• Purpose: Describe the purpose for using these tools (e.g., generating ideas, checking grammar, coding assistance).

• Extent of Use: Explain the extent of using AI (e.g., occasional help, significant part of the process).

• Originality: Confirm that the final submission is your own work and that AI tools were

used to support, not replace, your own efforts.
Note that Turnitin can detect AI generated content, and you will be subjected to the same penalties outlined under plagiarism.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1. Compose your TMA using Microsoft Office Word and save either as .doc
or .docx (preferred). Submission via Canvas mobile app is not supported.

2. Name your document file strictly in this format: CourseCode_AssignmentCode_UserID_FullName.
Example: ABC123_TMA02_Sally001_TanMeiMeiSally (omit D/O, S/O).
Use underscore and not space.

3. Multiple submissions are allowed before the cut-off date. Re-submission is NOT allowed after the cut-off date (including the grace period). Only the latest submission will be kept. Mark deduction scheme applies.

4. All references should be provided in the American Psychological Association (APA) 7 format. Please refer to this website https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammarguidelines/citations for APA guidelines on in text citation and this website https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples for the reference

page.

Referencing Examples
a. In text citation for one author ….. (Goldstein, 2019)   Goldstein (2019) …..

b. In text citation for three or more authors (Wickens, et al., 2022) Wickens, et al. (2022)

c. Reference List

References
Wickens, C. D., Helton, W. S., Hollands, J. G., & Banbury, S. (2022). Engineering
psychology and human performance (5th ed.). Routledge.

Question 1

(a) Stand at an open window. Take a picture of the scene outside the window. Attach the picture as the answer to this question. (5 marks)

(b) Observe the scene outside the window for 3 minutes. Describe the following:

1. What you see
2. What you hear
3. What you are touching
4. What you smell
5. What you taste (25 marks)

Question 2

(a) Define divided attention. (The word limit is 300 words.) (10 marks)

(b) Explain why observing the scene outside the window is an example of divided attention. (The word limit is 500 words.) (50 marks)

Language and references (10 marks)

The following assessment rubric will be used for this TMA.