Which of the following students provides the most complete, accurate information about the topic called mind wandering?
a. Daphne: When your mind wanders, your visual acuity actually improves.
b. Dan: When your mind wanders, you no longer can match an object's shape with its color.
c. Evan: Mind wandering occurs when your attention shifts from distributed attention to focused attention.
d. Karolina: Mind wandering occurs when your thoughts shift from the outside world to your inner thoughts.
Question 2According to your textbook, consciousness refers to
a. your ability to pay attention to two messages simultaneously.
b. your ability to suppress undesirable thoughts.
c. your awareness of the outside world and of your perceptions, images, and feelings.
d. your awareness about your automatic-processing ability.
Question 3Research by Anne Treisman has demonstrated that
a. focused attention produces many more errors than distributed attention.
b. in focused attention, an unusual stimulus appears to pop out from the other stimuli in the display.
c. illusory conjunctions are especially likely when people perform a task at a leisurely rate.
d. when people use focused attention, they typically perceive a figure whose shape is linked with its appropriate color.
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