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?

    <p>Search</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Detecting signals of interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between vigilance and search?

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

    What are distracters in the context of visual search?

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

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

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

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

    <p>The difficulty in detecting the target stimuli increases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Parallel stage and serial stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Stroop Effect?

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

    What is the Cocktail Party Effect?

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

    What is the difference between exogenous and endogenous cues?

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

    What is inattentional blindness?

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

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

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

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