PS 222 Exam 3 questions and correct
upgraded answers
active thinking about or concentration on some source of stimulation - answer ✔✔-awareness
the selection of some source of sensory stimulation for increased cognitive processing - answer
✔✔-attention
attention to some things and not others - answer ✔✔-selective attention
listening to one message in the left ear and a different message in the right ear - answer ✔✔-
dichotic listening
the theory that all sensory information is registered as physical signals but that attention selects
only some of those signals to be interpreted for meaning, with the rest being filtered out -
answer ✔✔-filter theory of attention
failure to perceive a fully visible but unattended visual object - answer ✔✔-inattentional
blindness
unawareness of stimuli in an attended location if the stimuli occur when we are processing
something else - answer ✔✔-attentional blink
,an experimental procedure in which visual stimuli such as letters or photos are presented very
rapidly, one after the other, at fixation - answer ✔✔-rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP)
inability to quickly detect changes in complex scenes - answer ✔✔-change blindness
selectively attending to some information by moving one's eyes - answer ✔✔-overt attention
selectively attending to some information without moving one's eyes - answer ✔✔-covert
attention
providing a cue (arrow or tone) about the location and timing of an upcoming stimulus - answer
✔✔-attentional cuing
searching for a specific target in a scene containing one, a few, or many objects - answer ✔✔-
visual search
searching a display for an item that differs in just one feature from all items in the display -
answer ✔✔-feature search
searching a display for an item that differs from all other items in the display by having a
particular combination of two or more features - answer ✔✔-conjunction search
attentional selection of an entire object when attention is directed to part of the object - answer
✔✔-object-based attention
the problem faced by the visual system of perceiving which visual features belong to the same
object - answer ✔✔-binding problem
, the theory that scene perception takes place in two stages; resolves the binding problem by
proposing that attention is directed to one object at a time - answer ✔✔-feature integration
theory (FIT)
erroneously perceiving object that consist of the features present in a scene, but in the wrong
combinations - answer ✔✔-illusory conjunctions
the theory that the brain resolves the competition for neural representation by selectively
attending to one object and representing the features of just that object - answer ✔✔-biased
competition theory
deliberately paying attention to something in order to get information needed to achieve goals -
answer ✔✔-top-down attentional control
the involuntary, unavoidable capture of attention by a salient perceptual stimulus - answer ✔✔-
bottom-up attentional control
the capture of attention by the learned reward value of a stimulus - answer ✔✔-value-driven
attentional control
a condition in which a person has difficulty attending to stimuli in one half of the visual field
(almost always the left half), as a result of damage to the contralateral parietal cortex - answer
✔✔-unilateral visual neglect
correspondences between neural activity and conscious awareness - answer ✔✔-neural
correlates of consciousness (NCCs)
a phenomenon in which an unchanging visual stimulus leads to repeated alternation between
two different perceptual experiences - answer ✔✔-perceptual bistability
upgraded answers
active thinking about or concentration on some source of stimulation - answer ✔✔-awareness
the selection of some source of sensory stimulation for increased cognitive processing - answer
✔✔-attention
attention to some things and not others - answer ✔✔-selective attention
listening to one message in the left ear and a different message in the right ear - answer ✔✔-
dichotic listening
the theory that all sensory information is registered as physical signals but that attention selects
only some of those signals to be interpreted for meaning, with the rest being filtered out -
answer ✔✔-filter theory of attention
failure to perceive a fully visible but unattended visual object - answer ✔✔-inattentional
blindness
unawareness of stimuli in an attended location if the stimuli occur when we are processing
something else - answer ✔✔-attentional blink
,an experimental procedure in which visual stimuli such as letters or photos are presented very
rapidly, one after the other, at fixation - answer ✔✔-rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP)
inability to quickly detect changes in complex scenes - answer ✔✔-change blindness
selectively attending to some information by moving one's eyes - answer ✔✔-overt attention
selectively attending to some information without moving one's eyes - answer ✔✔-covert
attention
providing a cue (arrow or tone) about the location and timing of an upcoming stimulus - answer
✔✔-attentional cuing
searching for a specific target in a scene containing one, a few, or many objects - answer ✔✔-
visual search
searching a display for an item that differs in just one feature from all items in the display -
answer ✔✔-feature search
searching a display for an item that differs from all other items in the display by having a
particular combination of two or more features - answer ✔✔-conjunction search
attentional selection of an entire object when attention is directed to part of the object - answer
✔✔-object-based attention
the problem faced by the visual system of perceiving which visual features belong to the same
object - answer ✔✔-binding problem
, the theory that scene perception takes place in two stages; resolves the binding problem by
proposing that attention is directed to one object at a time - answer ✔✔-feature integration
theory (FIT)
erroneously perceiving object that consist of the features present in a scene, but in the wrong
combinations - answer ✔✔-illusory conjunctions
the theory that the brain resolves the competition for neural representation by selectively
attending to one object and representing the features of just that object - answer ✔✔-biased
competition theory
deliberately paying attention to something in order to get information needed to achieve goals -
answer ✔✔-top-down attentional control
the involuntary, unavoidable capture of attention by a salient perceptual stimulus - answer ✔✔-
bottom-up attentional control
the capture of attention by the learned reward value of a stimulus - answer ✔✔-value-driven
attentional control
a condition in which a person has difficulty attending to stimuli in one half of the visual field
(almost always the left half), as a result of damage to the contralateral parietal cortex - answer
✔✔-unilateral visual neglect
correspondences between neural activity and conscious awareness - answer ✔✔-neural
correlates of consciousness (NCCs)
a phenomenon in which an unchanging visual stimulus leads to repeated alternation between
two different perceptual experiences - answer ✔✔-perceptual bistability
