Chapter 7 quizlet quiz

What is the main deficit in Bálint's syndrome according to the text?

• Patients can focus attention on multiple objects at a time

• Patients can focus attention only on one object at a time

• Patients cannot focus attention at all

• Patients can focus attention on sounds only

The term __________ refers to the operations involved when we select for further processing a limited subset of information from the total information available to us from our sensory systems and stored mental representations.

• Memory

• Attention

• Perception

• Cognition

__________ refers to the ability to choose certain sensory inputs for further information processing while ignoring others.

• Divided attention

• Selective attention

• Sustained attention

• Executive attention

Which component of attention is associated with the pulvinar?

• The ability to engage auditory attention at a particular location in the sound field

• The ability to engage visual attention at a particular location in the visual field

• The ability to maintain attention over time

• The ability to shift attention rapidly from one task to another

Joan, a patient who had a stroke in her right parietal lobe, is most likely to miss which stimulus when stopped at a virtual crosswalk and staring straight ahead in a driving simulator?

• A pedestrian on the driver side at the same time

• A pedestrian on the passenger side at the same time

• A traffic light changing above her

• A sign on the road to her right

Why isn't the neuropsychology of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) typically studied as a model to understand the anatomy of attention networks?

• ADHD is not related to attention networks

• The anatomical and behavioral differences in ADHD make it a less complex phenomenon to study

• The anatomical and behavioral differences in ADHD make it a more complex phenomenon to study

• ADHD is only a behavioral issue, not a neurological one

Patients with neglect have deficits in __________ attention, and those with Bálint's syndrome have deficits in __________ attention.

• voluntary; reflexive

• reflexive; voluntary

• scene-based; object-based

• object-based; scene-based

__________ is the idea that a stimulus does not have to be completely analyzed before it can be either selected for further processing or rejected as irrelevant.

• Early selection

• Late selection

• Selective attention

• Divided attention

In dichotic listening studies, it has been found that a participant usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the ignored channel. This finding is considered evidence that selection occurs __________.

• early in perceptual processing

• late in perceptual processing

• before attention is allocated

• without conscious awareness

The Posner spatial cuing task (1980) showed that cuing participants to the location of an upcoming target __________.

• increased reaction time to detect the target

• decreased reaction time to detect the target

• had no effect on reaction time

• improved accuracy but not reaction time