Broadbent's Filter Theory of Attention Assumed That

question 22

Multiple Choice

Broadbent's filter theory of attention assumed that:

• A) people use physical traits of stimuli to choose what gets through the attention bottleneck.
• B) attending is largely a volitional process that opens and closes gates on information flow.
• C) recognition of the stimulus must occur before filtering can occur.
• D) the attender uses mostly semantic information to decide what gets through and what does not get through.

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