Which of the Following Is True of Attention

question 95

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of attention?

• A) Attention is neither selective, nor shiftable.
• B) Novel stimuli often fail to attract our attention.
• C) Inattentional blindness refers to the failure to detect unexpected events when attention is engaged by a task.
• D) Objects that are small, dull-colored, or stationary are more likely to grab our attention than objects that are large, vividly colored, or moving.

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Definitions:

Flowering Plants

Plants that belong to the group Angiosperms, characterized by bearing flowers in which seeds are enclosed within a fruit.

Mammals

A class of warm-blooded vertebrate animals that possess hair or fur, and whose females produce milk for feeding their young.

Insects

Small arthropods belonging to the class Insecta, characterized by three-part bodies, usually two antennae, and compound eyes.

Amphibians

Cold-blooded vertebrates that live both in water and on land at different stages of their life, such as frogs and salamanders.