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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