Visual Selective Attention

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1. What does the multiple spotlight model of visual attention suggest?

  • Can conserve cognitive resources by avoiding attending to irrelevant regions of visual space
  • Attention enhances the efficiency of detection of events within its beam
  • The window of attention can be increased and decreased with task demands
  • Attention selects from objects themselves, rather than potentially empty regions of space
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2. What does the zoom lens model of visual attention suggest?

  • The window of attention can be increased and decreased with task demands
  • Attention selects from objects themselves, rather than potentially empty regions of space
  • Can conserve cognitive resources by avoiding attending to irrelevant regions of visual space
  • Attention enhances the efficiency of detection of events within its beam

3. What does Posner's (1980) cueing paradigm suggest?

  • Target detection is fastest when it is presented at the cued location
  • Target detection is slowest when it is presented at the cued location
  • Target detection is more accurate when it is presented at the cued location
  • Target detection is less accurate when it is presented at the cued location

4. What does an invalid cue do in the cueing paradigm (Posner, 1980)?

  • Indicates the speed that the target will appear
  • Indicates the location a target will appear in
  • Indicates a location where the target will not appear
  • Indicates the physical characteristics of the target

5. What does the spotlight model of visual attention suggest?

  • Attention enhances the efficiency of detection of events within its beam
  • Attention selects from objects themselves, rather than potentially empty regions of space
  • Can conserve cognitive resources by avoiding attending to irrelevant regions of visual space
  • The window of attention can be increased and decreased with task demands

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