Selective Attention

question 126

Multiple Choice

Selective attention

• A) improves the perception of stimuli that are its focus.
• B) has no effect on the quality of perception.
• C) seems to depend on thalamic mechanisms.
• D) seems to depend on changes in receptors.
• E) blocks out, just slightly, the perception of those stimuli that are its focus.

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