The Phenomenon Known as the "Attentional Blink" Illustrates the Fact

question 106

Multiple Choice

The phenomenon known as the "attentional blink" illustrates the fact that

• A) if something changes or moves very slowly, you usually do not notice it.
• B) immediately after you blink your eyes, colors seem brighter and lines seem sharper.
• C) shortly after responding to one stimulus, you tend to ignore another stimulus.
• D) you can do two things at once, but you cannot plan two actions at once.

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Definitions:

Tabula Rasa

(Latin.) In Locke, the “blank tablet” metaphor of the mind, in opposition to the doctrine that there are innate ideas. In other words, the mind is a “blank” at birth, and everything we know must be “stamped in” through experience.

Innate Ideas

Innate Ideas are concepts or knowledge presumed to be present in the mind at birth, not derived from experience but innate in the human mind.

John Locke

A 17th-century English philosopher known for his work in political philosophy, empiricism, and social contract theory.

Two-Worlds Assumption

The philosophical concept that reality is divided into two distinct realms or worlds, such as the physical and the spiritual, or the empirical and the ideal.