Suppose That You Are Working on a Jigsaw Puzzle, and You

question 43

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are working on a jigsaw puzzle, and you need to find a sky-blue corner piece. According to Anne Treisman's theory of attention,

• A) you would find the blue corner piece equally fast, whether the puzzle has 100 piece or 500 pieces.
• B) the number of other corner pieces and the number of other blue pieces would influence the time taken to find the blue corner piece.
• C) you would find the blue corner piece faster than you would find any pieces that are blue.
• D) it would take less time to find that the blue corner piece is not there than to find that it is there.

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Definitions:

Muscle Tension

The condition in which muscles of the body remain semi-contracted for an extended period.

Contraction

The tightening of a muscle in response to a stimulus, which results in movement or tension.

Anaerobic Respiration

A form of respiration using electron acceptors other than oxygen, typically seen in conditions where oxygen is scarce.

Lactate

An ion or ester of lactic acid, which is produced in muscles during intense exercise as a product of anaerobic metabolism.