Chapter 3 - Athabasca Quizz Flashcards
The neuroscience research on the executive attention network shows that this system
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primarily activates the prefrontal part of the cortex.
is fairly well developed in infants.
helps you search an area for a specific target.
helps you notice a new stimulus.
primarily activates the prefrontal part of the cortex.
According to Anne Treisman’s feature-integration theory,
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distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field.
people first focus selective attention on important parts of the stimulus.
focused attention is a relatively low-level kind of attention; people can quickly perform two focused-attention tasks simultaneously.
people use focused attention for vision, and they use distributed attention for hearing.
distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field.
Suppose that you are searching a list of college I.D. numbers to determine what grade you received on an exam. The system in your brain that is most involved in this search is the
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cerebral blood flow system.
executive attention network.
frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
orienting attention network.
orienting attention network.
You need saccadic eye movements when you are reading this sentence in order to
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focus on the consonants, rather than the vowels.
increase the size of your perceptual span.
decrease the number of fixations necessary for accurate reading.
move your eye so that the next words are registered in the fovea.
move your eye so that the next words are registered in the fovea.
Suppose that a woman has an injured visual cortex as the result of an accident. She says that she cannot see a light that is presented on her left side; however, she accurately points to the light’s location. She is demonstrating
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change blindness.
the ironic effects of mental control.
selective attention.
blindsight.
blindsight.
An illusory conjunction occurs when
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people pay selective attention to unusual features and ignore ordinary, common features.
people are not able to use focused attention.
people use bottom-up processing.
people use templates during object recognition.
people are not able to use focused attention.
Suppose that you are sitting in a classroom, trying to follow your professor’s lecture while also trying to ignore a loud conversation out in the hallway. This situation most closely resembles
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parallel processing.
holistic processing.
a divided-attention task.
a dichotic listening task.
a dichotic listening task.
Nisbett and Wilson examined people’s consciousness about their higher mental processes. According to their research,
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we can usually provide valid introspections about conscious processes.
it is impossible to have access to our thought processes.
we are often unable to introspect accurately about our thought processes.
we can introspect accurately about memory and higher mental processes, but not about perception.
we are often unable to introspect accurately about our thought processes.
According to your textbook’s introduction to Chapter 3, attention
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relies exclusively on bottom-up processing.
uses both top-down and bottom-up processing.
is a time-consuming but highly accurate cognitive process.
is a quick process that is highly inaccurate.
uses both top-down and bottom-up processing.
Suppose that Susan is taking the Stroop test, and the first item shows the word “red” printed in blue ink. According to your textbook, one reason that she will have trouble reporting the ink colour (blue) for this item is that
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she has had more experience in reading words than in identifying ink colours.
colours have more emotional meaning than words.
colourful arrangements of visual stimuli can actually facilitate an adult’s reading ability.
the left eye processes word meaning, and the right eye processes the colour of a stimulus.
she has had more experience in reading words than in identifying ink colours.
