Results of the Posner Spatial Cuing Task (1980) Showed That

question 9

Multiple Choice

Results of the Posner spatial cuing task (1980) showed that cuing participants to the location of an upcoming target decreased their reaction time to detect it because attention enhanced perceptual processing for the target. This finding is most consistent with ________ models of attention.

• A)gating
• B)bottleneck
• C)early-selection
• D)late-selection

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