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Which cognitive psychologist demonstrated that if an individual is presented with visual stimuli but is not able to attend to them, he or she would be likely to experience illusory conjunctions?
A) Neisser B) Treisman C) Hillyard D) Posner |
B) Treisman
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What was the finding of the study by O’Craven, et al. (1999) regarding human attentional mechanisms?
A) Attentional mechanisms can choose which among different brain regions based on the task. B) Visual attention is more acute then auditory attention in the majority of tasks studied. C) Non-human primates have greatly different parietal lobe functions. D) Men have greater acuity in olfactory attentional mechanisms than do women. |
A) Attentional mechanisms can choose which among different brain regions based on the task.
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Which of the following is not an area of the brain that is involved in controlling visual attention?
A) primary visual area B) pulvinar C) superior colliculus D) posterior parietal lobe |
A) Primary Visual Area
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Which of the following conditions of the experimental paradigm developed by J. Ridley Stroop leads to what we now refer to as the Stroop effect?
A) conflict B) congruent C) control D) combination |
A) Conflict
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In Mangun, Hillyard, and Luck’s (1993) experiment involving the measurement of the occipital region in response to the presentation of spots of light to one of four quadrants of a display, which of the following regions was activated by a spot of light to the lower left quadrant?
A) the left superior occipital region B) the right superior occipital region C) the left inferior occipital region D) the right inferior occipital region |
D) The right inferior Occipital region
(Page 72) |
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With regard to the locus of attentional control in the brain, the _________ lobe is responsible for directing perceptual resources and the ________ lobe is responsible for executive control.
A) parietal; frontal B) frontal; temporal C) temporal; occipital D) frontal; parietal |
A) Parietal; Frontal
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In the prefrontal region of the cerebral cortex the __________ cortex appears to be critical to setting intentions and controlling behavior, while the ________ cortex appears to be critical in monitoring conflict between competing tendencies.
A) ventral prefrontal; dorsolateral prefrontal B) anterior cingulate; orbitofrontal C) dorsolateral prefrontal; anterior cingulate D) orbitofrontal; ventral prefrontal |
C) Dorsolateral Prefrontal; Anterior Cingulate
(Page 89) |
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Damage to the parietal lobe can result in which of the following neuropsychological disorders?
A) apraxia B) aphasia C) unilateral neglect D) achomatopsia |
C) Unilateral Neglect
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What factor caused the differences seen in the ability to successfully perform two separate cognitive tasks at once in the Byrne and Anderson (2001) experiment and the Schumacher, et al. (2001) experiment?
A) sensory modality B) difficulty of task C) type of motor response required D) type of stimuli employed |
B) Difficulty of task
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Which of the following phenomena shows a lateralization difference?
A) featural/conjunction search B) endogenous/exogenous attentional control C) perception/attentional difference D) visual/auditory attention |
B) Endogenous/Exogenous attentional control
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What were Strayer and Drews (2007) able to determine about attention in the study of cell phone usage?
A) Dual task performance is eventually equal to the performance seen for either task that is involved B) Cell phone usage is not dangerous as long as the driver keeps his/her eyes on the road C) Conversing on a cell phone is much more distracting than listening to the radio or conversing with someone in the car D) Headsets are a very important peripheral device for the safety of motorists |
C) Conversing on a cell phone is much more distracting than listening to the radio or conversing with someone in the car
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Which of the following research paradigms is a well-known example of a research method used to assess attentional abilities?
A) turing test B) Sternberg paradigm C) introspection D) dichotic listening task |
D) Dichotic listening task
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What is the difference between Treisman’s and Deutsch and Deutsch’s late-selection attentional theories?
A) Treisman believed that filtering took place at a conscious level; Deutsch and Deutsch felt that it was an unconscious phenomenon. B) Deutsch and Deutsch believed that late-selection only applied to motor activities; Treisman was more inclusive. C) Treisman felt that certain information was attenuated during processing; Deutsch and Deutsch felt that all information was processed in an unattenuated state. D) Deutsch and Deutsch felt that late-selection of visual search information would lead to longer reaction times; Treisman felt that visual search performance was unrelated to attentional processes. |
C) Treisman felt that certain information was attenuated during processing; Deutsch and Deutsch felt that all information was processed in an unattenuated state.
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