Chapter 14 Quiz Flashcards
(17 cards)
Important or sudden changes in our environment will cause an unconscious (involuntary) shift in attention (like when you turn your head at hearing a loud noise). This process has this “directional” name “_____________ up” processes.
bottom
Our limited selective attention generally allows us to focus on only one thing at a time. So like when we see a person standing in the middle of the stage, we see them but ignore whatever else may be happening. In this way our selective attention acts like an “attentional ____________________“,or a failure to perceive nonattended stimuli.
spotlight
True/False: According to the theory of perceptual load, a large perceptual load decreases perceptual resources for unattended items.
True
Damage to the __________ eye field in humans produces difficulties in suppressing unwanted reorientation of the eyes toward peripheral distracters.
frontal
The frontal eye field and intraparietal sulcus (IPS) make up the cortical network called the _________ frontoparietal system.
dorsal
The hard problem of consciousness is understanding brain processes that produce people’s ___________________ experiences of their conscious perceptions.
subjective
The ___________ is a structure that is involved in filtering or ignoring distracting stimuli during covert attention tasks?
Pulvinar
The brain structure responsible for guiding visual gaze to intended objects is the ________________ colliculus.
superior
Because voluntary attention is under direct, conscious control, researchers refer to it as a _____-_________ process.
top-down
The pulvinar is located in the posterior portion of the ______________.
thalamus
True/False: Oscar had a stroke and seemed to no longer be able to pay attention to the left side of his body, leaving his left cheek unshaven and not putting a sock on his left foot. he would even ignore things in his left visual field like food on his plate. A neurologist would diagnose Oscar with hemispatial neglect.
True
Inattentional blindness is the failure to perceive nonattended __________.
stimuli
Progressive supranuclear palsy is a degenerative disease of the _________ that begins with persistent visual symptoms and leads to more widespread intellectual deterioration.
brain
Executive _____________ is a neural and cognitive system that helps develop plans of action and organizes the activities of high level processing systems.
function
Hemispatial ____________ is the failure to pay attention to objects presented to one side of the body.
neglect
Overt attention is when the conscious focus coincides with ______________ orientation.
sensory
Perseverate is to continue to show a ______________ repeatedly, beyond a reasonable degree.
behavior
