PSYB57: Intro Cog Psychology (Winter 2022) Name: ________________________________ University of Toronto, .
Sample Questions: Lecture 04 (Attention)
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Multiple-choice (2)
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1. Of options A, B, C, and D, which is FALSE regarding attention?
a. Filter theory posits that unattended stimuli are irreversibly discarded from the mind
b. There is clear neurological evidence of attention boosting processing for attended stimuli
c. Valid cues are always faster in any attentional task
d. Attentional control may be required to inhibit the inappropriate response in the Stroop task
e. Options A, B, C, and D are all true
2. Which of the following best captures the concept of the attentional blink?
a. The lapse in attention we experience as eye blinks occur
b. The fact that unconscious attention is more useful to us than conscious attention
c. The added time it takes us to process information when going between different tasks
d. Incorrectly binding features together due to depleted attentional resources
e. None of the above
Short-answers (2)
1. (a) Explain the task procedure for the experiment that had neglect patients look at oddball chimeric [horse] objects (5) (b) Describe the results of this study and interpret what they mean with respect to how individuals with neglect process information. (6)
2. Patients with Balint’s syndrome usually have simultagnosia, which is the inability to be aware of more than one object at a time. Carefully explain how Feature Integration Theory accounts for this bizarre phenomenon. (10)
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