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Imagine that you are at a 4th of July parade and you see a number of marching bands performing. The bands wearing the same outfit appear to be grouped together. One band wears grey uniforms, another wears blue uniforms, and so on. You have this perceptual experience because of the law of

Posner’s spatial cueing task (arrow pointing to a location) provides evidence for which type of attention?

According to Gick and Holyoak’s work on analogical problem solving, what is the most challenging step to achieve in the process of using an analogy to solve a problem? 

The pattern of feature detectors firing in reaction to a stimulus generates the ______ for representing what the stimulus is (e.g., a dog, a flower, a kite, and so on).

Anne Treisman proposed in 1964 the attenuation model of attention. Which of these options, according to the model, should have the “highest threshold” for most individuals?

The word-length effect reveals that

Ms. Robinson recently suffered a stroke. An MRI scan revealed that she suffered damage in her parietal lobe. Ms. Robinson is most likely to have problems with which perceptual function?

Anna is blonde, very physically attractive, and lives in an expensive house. If we judge the probability of Anna’s being a model as quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using the heuristic of:

When comparing functional MRI (fMRI) and event-related potential (ERP) recordings, fMRI has:

John Mill suffered a traumatic brain injury that specifically impaired his episodic memory. Which option describes the task that will be most challenging for him?