The Key Difference Between Voluntary 'Top-Down' Attention and Automatic 'Bottom-Up

question 7

Multiple Choice

The key difference between voluntary 'top-down' attention and automatic 'bottom-up' attention is:

• A) You can consciously control automatic attention but not voluntary attention
• B) You can consciously control voluntary attention but not automatic attention
• C) Both voluntary and automatic attention are controlled by executive processes
• D) None of the above

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Definitions:

Scopes Trial

A landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school teacher John T. Scopes was tried for violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools, bringing national attention to the debate between fundamentalist religious values and scientific theories.

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