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6. What does Broadbent claim the attentional filter does?
- Acts as a bottleneck so we only process the most significant or relevant information
- Acts as a bottleneck in schizophrenic patients
- Allows all stimuli to be processed
- Acts as a bottleneck so we process the most prominent information
7. What type of attention did Posner study in 1980?
- Passive
- Covert
- Focused
- Overt
8. Who found that children with ADHD have weak alerting and executive attention, but not orienting?
- Mullane et al., (2010)
- Vossel, Geng & Fink (2013)
- Orellana et al., (2012)
- Menon & Uddin (2010)
9. What is the executive network associated with?
- The visual cortex
- The temporal lobe
- The gyrus
- The parietal cortex
10. What is the orienting network associated with?
- The thalamus
- The suprachiasmatic nucleus
- The parietal lobe
- The gyrus
11. What is the alerting network associated with?
- The gyrus
- The locus coeruleus
- The thalamus
- The parietal lobe
12. Who claims the dorsal and ventral networks have a flexible interaction in relation to top-down goals and bottom-up sensory processing?
- Olivers et al., (2011)
- Vossel, Geng & Fink (2013)
- Menon & Uddin (2010)
- Peterson & Posner (2012)
13. Which brain areas are associated with the ventral system?
- The gyrus and the insula
- The medial temporal lobe and the occipital cortex
- The temporoparietal cortex and the inferior frontal cortex
- The temporal cortex and superior frontal cortex
14. What is exogenous attention?
- External attention
- Attention that is shifted automatically and is stimulus driven
- Attention that is shifted voluntarily and is goal directed
- Internal attention
15. What does the Attention Network Task allow?
- Research into the relationship between working memory and attention
- Research into the relationship between alerting and orienting attention
- Research into the relationship between executive functioning and attention
- Research into the relationship between internal and external attention
16. Which part of Baddeley's working memory model is associated with attentional control, and plays a major role in external and internal attention?
- The executive path
- The central executive
- The visuo-spatial sketchpad
- The phonological loop
17. Who highlighted the role of the insula in processing bottom-up salient events, and facilitation of access to working memory?
- Peterson & Posner (2012)
- McCabe et al., (2010)
- Menon & Uddin (2010)
- Olivers et al., (2011)
18. What is the role of the dorsal system?
- Circuit breaking
- Goal directed/top-down processing
- Bottom-up processing
- Alerting to salient information
19. Schizophrenia patients tested with ANT showed poor executive functioning - who researched this?
- Olivers et al (2011)
- McCabe et al., (2010)
- Orellana et al., (2012)
- Vossel, Geng & Fink (2013)
20. Which system uses bottom-up processing, and is especially sensitive to salient or unexpected stimuli while acting as a reorienting system?
- The executive system
- The ventral system
- The dorsal system
- The alerting system