Deck 14: Attention and Perception

Question 1

There is enough energy available for the brain to support high activity levels in:

A) Less than 2% of neurons
B) Less than 6% of neurons
C) Less than 12% of neurons
D) Less than 18% of neurons

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Once attention shifts away from a specific spatial location, processing at that location is suppressed. This effect is called:

A) Attentional blink
B) Modal attention
C) Inhibition of return
D) Attentional return

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Inattentional blindness is an example of:

A) Object-based attention
B) Modal attention
C) Spatial attention
D) Temporal attention

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Visual search tasks have been used extensively to study:

A) Modal attention
B) Temporal attention
C) Spatial attention
D) Feature attention

Question 5

Search targets defined by simple features are typically found within:

A) 200 ms
B) 300 ms
C) 400 ms
D) 1000 ms

Question 6

How much of the body's overall energy consumption at rest does the brain account for?

A) 0.01
B) 0.1
C) 0.2
D) 0.4

Question 7

What sort of attention involves one sense dominating attention to the exclusion of others?

A) Feature
B) Modal
C) Temporal
D) Spatial

Question 8

What is the RSVP task used to study?

A) Attentional blink
B) Modal attention
C) Spatial attention
D) Temporal attention

Question 9

How long after a target is detected does attentional blink occur?

A) 10-20ms
B) 200-400ms
C) 500-700ms
D) 900-1000ms

Question 10

Who first proposed the filter theory of attention?

A) Broadbent
B) Treisman & Wolfe
C) Sutherland
D) Gelade

Question 11

Attention modulation affects are relatively weak for:

A) Somatosensation
B) Olfaction
C) Vision
D) Hearing

Question 12

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is used to study:

A) Modal attention
B) Spatial attention
C) Temporal attention
D) Object-based attention

Question 13

Inhibition of return starts about:

A) 50 ms after attention shifts away from a location
B) 150 ms after attention shifts away from a location
C) 250 ms after attention shifts away from a location
D) 350 ms after attention shifts away from a location

Question 14

Spatial attention has been likened to a:

A) Searchlight
B) Spotlight
C) Lighthouse
D) Traffic light

Question 15

When participants fail to notice significant events taking place outside the focus of attention, the effect is called

A) Attentional blink
B) Spatial attention
C) Attentional resolution
D) Inattentional blindness

Question 16

In MOT tasks, participants can usually track no more than about:

A) Two targets
B) Five targets
C) Eight targets
D) Twelve targets

Question 17

The clinical condition involving an inability to attend to more than one object at a time is called:

A) Associative agnosia.
B) Apperceptive agnosia
C) Simultanagnosia
D) Hemi-neglect

Question 18

The FINST theory of attention is similar to the:

A) Object file theory
B) Early Filter theory
C) Filter integration theory
D) Guided search theory

Question 19

fMRI research has identified which area with perception a reversals in a bistable display?

A) Intraparietal sulcus
B) Frontoparietal cortex
C) MT
D) Extrastriate cortex

Question 20

Which task is used to study the limits of object-based attention?

A) Parallel object tracking
B) Multiple object tracking
C) RSVP
D) Single object tracking