Attention and Consciousness Quiz

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What is vigilance primarily concerned with?

Engaging in an active search

Being watchful for danger

Detecting signals of interest (correct)

Actively processing information

Which term refers to the state of being watchful or alert for danger or trouble?

Vigilance (correct)

Consciousness

Attention

Memory processing

What does consciousness primarily involve?

Feeling of awareness (correct)

Unconscious processes

Storage of information

Active search for stimuli

Which cognitive process involves actively seeking out specific stimuli?

Search Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of attention and vigilance in relation to stimuli?

Detecting signals of interest Signup and view all the answers

What is the main difference between vigilance and search?

Vigilance involves passively waiting for a stimulus, while search involves actively seeking a target. Signup and view all the answers

What are distracters in the context of visual search?

They are nontarget stimuli that divert our attention away from the target stimuli. Signup and view all the answers

According to the Feature-Integration Theory, how do we process feature searches and conjunction searches?

For feature searches, we monitor the relevant feature map, while for conjunction searches, we conjoin two or more features into an object representation. Signup and view all the answers

According to the Similarity Theory, what happens as the similarity between the target and distracter increases?

The difficulty in detecting the target stimuli increases. Signup and view all the answers

What are the two stages involved in the Guided Search Theory?

Parallel stage and serial stage Signup and view all the answers

What is the Stroop Effect?

It demonstrates the psychological difficulty in selectively attending to the color of the ink while ignoring the word printed with that ink color. Signup and view all the answers

What is the Cocktail Party Effect?

It is the inability to segregate stimuli, leading to the cocktail party problem or cocktail party deafness. Signup and view all the answers

What is the difference between exogenous and endogenous cues?

Exogenous cues are external, while endogenous cues are more internalized and involve internal knowledge. Signup and view all the answers

What is inattentional blindness?

It is the inability to consciously perceive things in our visual field when our attention is directed elsewhere. Signup and view all the answers

According to Broadbent's Selection Theory, at what stage do we filter information?

We filter information right after it is registered at the sensory level. Signup and view all the answers

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