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Question 1:

William James claimed, “Everyone knows what attention is.” What would most researchers today say about that?
a) James was correct.
b) Defining attention is a very difficult thing to do.
c) Although his initial definition was flawed, we now know what attention is.
d) James was wrong all along.

Question 2:

What laboratory-based task did Colin Cherry develop that is arguably equivalent to the real life situation experienced when trying to focus on one conversation while many other conversations are simultaneously occurring?
a) It was called the shadowing task and required people to shadow one of two messages presented over headphones.
b) It was called selective looking and required people to choose amongst two simultaneously presented visual events.
c) It was called the cocktail party effect.
d) It involved the presentation of simultaneous auditory messages with the task to attend to both of them.

Question 3:

Which area of the brain has been associated with top-down bias that favours the selection of task-relevant information?
a) DLPFC
b) Nystagmus
c) ACC
d) V1

Question 4:

What did Lavie, Ro, and Russell find about face processing in their version of the flanker task?
a) Face processing is involuntary.
b) Participants “gave up” on attending to faces when the task became too difficult.
c) We can more easily ignore faces than other distractor items.
d) Face processing occurs in a different part of the brain than processing of other distractor items.

Question 5:

What type of errors do people make when performing the sustained attention to response task (SART)?
a) Omission errors
b) Commission errors
c) Omission and commission errors
d) Default network errors

Question 6:

The reverse of attention capture is inattentional blindness.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

Faces have the ability to automatically capture attention and therefore cannot be ignored.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

The attentional blink paradigm demonstrates that the second target is not consciously or unconsciously processed.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

According to the sequential attention hypothesis, overt attention moves first, followed by covert attention.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Proponents of the Quiet Eye would suggest that you could be a better golfer if you would only fixate a little bit longer before prior to putting the ball.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 4