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Hillyard and colleagues found that in a dichotic tone procedure, selective attention to an auditory stimulus from one ear produced an early positive ERP deflection that was enhanced for the selectively attended input. This phenomenon is called the _______ effect.

Reflexive attention is also called

According to the theory of perceptual load, a large perceptual load

According to research by Klar and colleagues, what percent of right-handers have a clockwise whorl of hair on the back of the scalp?

In approximately 65% of people, the planum temporale is larger

The experience of having your attention suddenly captured by hearing your name from across the room illustrates which attentional selection model?

Comparative studies suggest that the inability to retrieve memories of events, as experienced by patient K.C., is probably due to damage to the

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Extra Credit:  What is a question that you wish I had asked on the exam?  Give the question and the answer.  The question must be related to content we covered in lecture in order to receive credit.

Below is a figure representing an experiment conducted by G.E. Gause with paramecium.  He cultured two species of paramecium separately and then cultured them both together.A.  What causes the population of P. caudatum to rapidly decline when the two species are grown together?B.  Why does the growth rate of both paramecium species eventually reach zero when the species are grown separately?