Exam 9: Attention and Awareness

Which statement BEST describes Broadbent's filter theory of attention?

_____ refers to erroneously perceiving objects that consist of the features present in a scene, but in the wrong combinations.

Which type of attentional control is involuntary?

The cases of patients in the text, D. B. and T. N., provide good evidence that the residual vision in blindsight is based on signals that pass from the retina to the superior colliculus, through the thalamus, and on to the visual cortex. However, this pathway CANNOT support:

According to the feature integration theory, in the preattentive stage:

The text defines attention as the selection of some source of sensory stimulation for increased:

The ability to point to and sometimes discriminate visual stimuli without any conscious awareness of having seen them is called:

Which statement BEST describes perceptual bistability?

In the context of attention to objects, the research conducted by Egly et al. (1994), involving a variation of the attentional cueing procedure, illustrated that:

The Necker cube is the BEST known example of:

Could there be any disadvantage for a batter in baseball to look for a pitch in a particular location .

Which problems occur when the visual system is faced with determining the visual features that belong to the same object?

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

According to Broadbent's filter theory of attention, sensory information is registered as physical signals and that attention selects only some of those signals to be interpreted for meaning and the rest are:

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 spoken. 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?

Broadbent's filter theory of attention states that the sensory stimuli are filtered by attention based on:

Laboratory tasks, investigating feature-based attention, show that the response time in conjuction search:

Why did the participants in Raymond et al. (1992) study on attentional blink, have a difficult time identifying the probe when it was placed 2 to 6 letters after the target stimulus?

Laboratory tasks investigating feature-based attention show that the response time in feature search:

People sometimes suffer brain damage that completely destroys area V1 but leaves the rest of the brain intact, and such people typically report that they can see nothing. This finding alone suggests that area V1 is necessary for: