According to Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory,
a. distributed attention uses parallel search through the visual field.
b. people first focus selective attention on important parts of the stimulus.
c. focused attention is a relatively low-level kind of attention; people can quickly perform two focused-attention tasks simultaneously.
d. people use focused attention for vision, and they use distributed attention for hearing.
Question 2What is the current status of the bottleneck theory of attention?
a. It is relatively accurate in explaining the functions of the executive attention network.
b. It explains auditory attention, but not visual attention.
c. It explains attention patterns in children, but not in adults.
d. It is not flexible enough to explain human attention.
Question 3Suppose that Silvia has had a stroke that damaged part of the left hemisphere of her brain, and a neurologist says that she has unilateral spatial neglect. You would expect that she
a. has reduced vision for colored objects.
b. ignores objects that appear in her right visual field.
c. claims that she can see objects, even when there are no nearby objects.
d. can see objects, but she cannot name them.
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