When you try the Stroop task, you need to say the name of the colors and inhibit your automatic tendency to read the words. This kind of search typically activates
a. your executive attention network.
b. your orienting attention network.
c. your saccadic eye movements.
d. your parietal lobe.
Question 2Compared to a good reader, a poor reader is likely to
a. make larger saccadic eye movements.
b. make more regressions to earlier material.
c. stop for less time during a fixation pause.
d. have a larger perceptual span.
Question 3Which of the following visual activities would be most likely to employ the orienting attention network?
a. you notice that a red light on your car's dashboard has just started to flash
b. you are searching for an empty seat in a crowded classroom
c. you are reporting the color of ink for each word on the Stroop test
d. you are looking at a doorway, ready to say hello when each person enters
Question 4Suppose that you are searching a list of college I.D. numbers to determine what grade you received on an exam. The system in your brain that is most involved in this search is the
a. cerebral blood flow system.
b. executive attention network.
c. frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
d. orienting attention network.
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