Exam 7: Attention and Scene Perception

Suppose one evening you watch a beautiful sunset and take a photograph of it. Later, when you look at the picture, the sunset appears much smaller in the scene than you remember it. What theory of attention explains this discrepancy?

In directing attention, an _______ cue is located in or near the current location of attention.

_______ describes the structure of a scene without reference to the identity of specific objects in the scene.

_______ refers to the vividness of a stimulus relative to its neighbors.

If a male patient with right parietal lobe damage were to shave their face, what might happen?

The "line cancellation test" is used to assess

What is change blindness?

The _______ is the period of time between the onset of one stimulus and the onset of another.

In a(n) _______ search, multiple stimuli are processed at the same time.

In directing attention, an _______ cue is located out at the desired final location of attention.

In visual search studies, a _______ is any stimulus other than the target.

The _______ is the brain area that responds preferentially to faces in fMRI studies.

The number of items in the display in a visual search experiment is referred to as the

_______ is a common childhood disorder that can continue into adulthood and has symptoms such as difficulty focusing attention, as well as problems with controlling behavior.

The _______ problem refers to the challenge of tying different attributes of visual stimuli (e.g., color, orientation, motion), which are handled by different brain circuits, to the appropriate object so that we perceive a unified object (e.g., blue, horizontal, moving to the left).

If you look for a red delicious apple among green granny smith apples and red tomatoes, what kind of visual search are you conducting?

Attention is generally thought of as

Which of the following is an experimental procedure in which stimuli appear in a stream in one location at a quick rate?

SOA refers to

A _______ search is a search for a target that is defined by the combination of two or more attributes (e.g., a big and yellow target among big blue and small yellow distractors).