Exam 8: Attention and Awareness

The problem of consciousness refers to ,while the problem of consciousness refers to

When Tong et al.(1998)presented a composite image of a face and a house (an anaglyph)to observers who were wearing red-blue glasses,each eye saw only the house or the face.The results of fMRI measurements of brain activity showed that

The failure to perceive a fully visible but unattended visual object is called

______________ is the ability to point to and sometimes discriminate visual stimuli without any conscious awareness of them.

Sunny has been living in the same neighborhood for seven years.Last week a friend pointed out to her that all the street signs around her house are white with black writing,but that starting only two blocks south the signs become green with white writing.How would you explain the fact that Sunny,who frequently drives all around the neighborhood,never realized this about the signage?

In Mack and Rock's (1998)study of inattentional blindness,the participants who were told to ignore the large cross

______________ attentional control is voluntary.

______________ proposes that the brain solves the problem by selectively attending to one object at a time.

According to Broadbent's filter theory of attention,only some of the physical signal is processed for ,with the remainder being filtered out.

When Chiu and Yantis (2009)directed viewers' attention to either the left or right side of a display and then measured brain activity with fMRI,they found that

In Mack and Rock's (1998)study of inattentional blindness,the majority of participants who were asked to state which arm of a cross was longer

Bottom-up attentional control is considered all of the following except

The typical study of change blindness uses the rapid alternation of photos,with each presented for about one-quarter of a second.The results show that the observers can detect the change in the photos after about alternation cycles.

Research indicates that the neural pathway passing from the retina to the superior colliculus to the thalamus and onto the visual cortex underlies the phenomenon of blindsight.This pathway

Triesman (1960)showed that participants who were asked to shadow one message in a dichotic listening study would sometimes follow the message from the "attended" ear to the "to-be- ignored" ear.This finding suggests that

Ben claims that he can save time by reading his history text while having an online chat with the project team from his marketing class.How would you explain to Ben that not only will he not save time,but he will probably expend more total time overall by multitasking.

For searches,feature integration theory predicts that .

It has been shown that if you are speaking to someone at a noisy party,you can generally disregard what is said in nearby conversations,but your attention will be captured if your own name is spo- ken.What other words or names do you think would have a similar effect? Would the same words work for all people? Why or why not?

How would you explain the typical finding that for a conjunction search,the target-absent re- sponse times are approximately twice as slow as the target-present response times (i.e. ,for any given number of display items)?

The was designed as a laboratory version of the real-world .