Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
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Chapter 19: Attention and Executive Function
Multiple Choice
1. Which term best describes our ability to scan and search for specific objects or pieces of
information, involving shifting our focus to many locations until we find the desired item?
A. Visual Neglect
B. Visual Extinction
C. Visual Load
D. Visual Search *
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
2. Which term is sometimes used interchangeably with exogenous attention?
A. Hierarchical control
B. Top-down attentional control
C. Inverted attention
D. Bottom-up attentional control *
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
3. Which of the following best explains why it is much easier to find edge pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle than center pieces?
A. Because the straight portions of an edge piece afford pop out *
B. Because the edge pieces typically involve lower perceptual load
C. Because the edge pieces always have less perceptual detail
D. Because recognizing an edge piece requires a conjunction of two features (straight
edges and irregular edges)
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
4. Which of the following anatomical structures is NOT part of the default mode network?
A. Superior colliculus *
B. Medial prefrontal cortex
C. Precuneus
D. Cingulate cortex
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
5. If you inactivate the pulvinar of a monkey using chemicals such as muscimol (a GABA
agonist), how would it affect the animal's ability to detect an uncued target in a Posner
cueing paradigm?
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A. It would make them faster to respond to the uncued target, suggesting better
attentional control
B. It would make them slower to respond to the uncued target, suggesting worse
attentional control *
C. It would affect dorsal attentional shifts, but not ventral attentional shifts
D. It would affect ventral attentional shifts, but not dorsal attentional shifts
Boom’s Level 3. Applying
6. Which of the following pieces of evidence supports the argument that visual attention can
alter the bottom-up processing of visual input even at relatively early visual stages?
A. Enhanced activity in the default mode network when mind-wandering
B. Enhanced activity in the dorsal attentional network in response to visual cues
C. Enhanced activity in the FFA and PPA depending on the category of stimulus currently
attended
D. Enhanced N1 and P1 components to attended visual input *
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
7. In contrast to the concept of early selection, what does the concept of late selection suggest
about the processing of information?
A. Unattended information undergoes early filtering
B. Only attended sources of information undergo sematic processing
C. Unattended sources of information undergo higher-level semantic processing *
D. Late selection does not impact information processing
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
8. Which of the following best captures the main difference between inattentional blindness
and change blindness?
A. Inattentional blindness only occurs for static visual images, whereas change blindness
only occurs for dynamic visual images
B. In inattentional blindness, the information that is missed is attended, whereas in change
blindness, the information that is missed is unattended
C. In inattentional blindness, the information that is missed is unattended, whereas in
change blindness, the information that is missed is attended *
D. Inattentional blindness is associated with hemispatial neglect, whereas change blindness
is associated with extinction
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
9. Damage to the frontal eye field does which of the following?
A. Elicits eye movements
B. Produces the negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia
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OpenStax
Chapter 19: Attention and Executive Function
Multiple Choice
1. Which term best describes our ability to scan and search for specific objects or pieces of
information, involving shifting our focus to many locations until we find the desired item?
A. Visual Neglect
B. Visual Extinction
C. Visual Load
D. Visual Search *
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
2. Which term is sometimes used interchangeably with exogenous attention?
A. Hierarchical control
B. Top-down attentional control
C. Inverted attention
D. Bottom-up attentional control *
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
3. Which of the following best explains why it is much easier to find edge pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle than center pieces?
A. Because the straight portions of an edge piece afford pop out *
B. Because the edge pieces typically involve lower perceptual load
C. Because the edge pieces always have less perceptual detail
D. Because recognizing an edge piece requires a conjunction of two features (straight
edges and irregular edges)
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
4. Which of the following anatomical structures is NOT part of the default mode network?
A. Superior colliculus *
B. Medial prefrontal cortex
C. Precuneus
D. Cingulate cortex
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
5. If you inactivate the pulvinar of a monkey using chemicals such as muscimol (a GABA
agonist), how would it affect the animal's ability to detect an uncued target in a Posner
cueing paradigm?
1
, Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
OpenStax
A. It would make them faster to respond to the uncued target, suggesting better
attentional control
B. It would make them slower to respond to the uncued target, suggesting worse
attentional control *
C. It would affect dorsal attentional shifts, but not ventral attentional shifts
D. It would affect ventral attentional shifts, but not dorsal attentional shifts
Boom’s Level 3. Applying
6. Which of the following pieces of evidence supports the argument that visual attention can
alter the bottom-up processing of visual input even at relatively early visual stages?
A. Enhanced activity in the default mode network when mind-wandering
B. Enhanced activity in the dorsal attentional network in response to visual cues
C. Enhanced activity in the FFA and PPA depending on the category of stimulus currently
attended
D. Enhanced N1 and P1 components to attended visual input *
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
7. In contrast to the concept of early selection, what does the concept of late selection suggest
about the processing of information?
A. Unattended information undergoes early filtering
B. Only attended sources of information undergo sematic processing
C. Unattended sources of information undergo higher-level semantic processing *
D. Late selection does not impact information processing
Bloom’s Level 1. Remembering
8. Which of the following best captures the main difference between inattentional blindness
and change blindness?
A. Inattentional blindness only occurs for static visual images, whereas change blindness
only occurs for dynamic visual images
B. In inattentional blindness, the information that is missed is attended, whereas in change
blindness, the information that is missed is unattended
C. In inattentional blindness, the information that is missed is unattended, whereas in
change blindness, the information that is missed is attended *
D. Inattentional blindness is associated with hemispatial neglect, whereas change blindness
is associated with extinction
Bloom’s Level 2. Understanding
9. Damage to the frontal eye field does which of the following?
A. Elicits eye movements
B. Produces the negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia
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