Exam 9: Attention and Awareness

According to the study of inattentional blindness conducted by Mack and Rock (1998), when the participants were told to ignore the large cross and just report if they saw anything else appear in the display: _____.

Which statement states that conjunction search requires more effort than feature search?

In the context of the critical trial of inattentional blindness conducted by Mack and Rock (1998), the participants who stated which arm of the cross was longer were asked if they had seen anything in the display other than the large cross. Between 60 percent and 80 percent of the participants indicated that they:

Colin Cherry coined the term _____ to describe the challenge of comprehending speech in a real-world noisy environment.

Describe the response of a V4 neuron whose receptive field is occupied by an effective and ineffective stimulus when attention is directed to (1) the effective stimulus, (2) the ineffective stimulus, and (3) neither stimulus.

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

In the context of attention to locations, Posner et al. (1978) used a technique with valid, invalid, and neutral cues and found that response time was fastest with valid cues. This technique is called:

Explain how the Necker cube can be used to explain perceptual bistability.

Which task was designed as a laboratory version of the real-world cocktail party problem?

The difference in speed and efficiency between top-down and bottom-up attentional control was assessed in an experiment conducted by Jonides and Yantis (1988). The experiment examined how the abrupt onset of a visual stimulus captures attention. The research showed that the response time for participants who searched through an array of letters for a target letter increased with the number of letters to be searched when the target:

According to the philosopher David Chalmers, which question refers to "the hard problem" of consciousness?