Studies Looking at Electrical Activity in the Brain Suggest That

question 39

Multiple Choice

Studies looking at electrical activity in the brain suggest that the processing steps for attended stimuli and unattended stimuli are

• A) indistinguishable.
• B) distinguishable for only 1 millisecond after stimuli presentation.
• C) distinguishable around 80 milliseconds after stimuli presentation.
• D) distinguishable, although the exact time at which these two inputs differ is unknown.

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Definitions:

Sociometer Theory

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