Chapter 4
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience · 3 exercises
Problem 1
Describe the following evidence that attention is sometimes necessary for perception: inattentional blindness experiment; "basketball" experiment; change detection experiments.
3 step solution
Problem 5
Describe Treisman's feature integration theory. What does the theory seek to explain about perceiving objects? What are the stages of the theory, and at what point does attention become involved?
5 step solution
Problem 6
What are illusory conjunctions, and what do they demonstrate about feature analysis? How have illusory conjunction experiments supported the role of attention in feature analysis? How do experiments with Balint's syndrome patients support feature integration theory?
4 step solution