To thoroughly understand the nature of the brain in attention it is necessary to consider the topics of:
A) awareness and consciousness
B) motivation and acquiescence
C) perception and sensation
D) wakefulness and sleep cycles
E) neurosis and personality
Question 2When the real and the perceived do not match it is called:
A) A visual anomaly
B) An illusory correlation
C) A mental problem
D) An illusion
E) A trick
Question 3The Dear Aunt Jane or what the hell experiment indicates that research participants follow a simultaneously presented message by:
A) exhibiting high GSRs
B) means of visualization
C) attending to only one channel (for example, one ear, where a different message is presented in each)
D) attending to the meaning independent of the source of the message
E) switching channels
Question 4In the Muller-Lyer illusion:
A) faces appear warped
B) water appears to flow uphill
C) two parallel lines appear to converge
D) lines of equal length appear unequal
E) a triangle appears to be distorted
Question 5Attention is defined by cognitive psychologists as:
A) the concentration of mental effort
B) a conscious phenomenon
C) the strength of a signal
D) generalization of percept
E) the activation of certain attentional centers in the brain
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