If a Participant Is Shown a Picture for a Brief

question 21

Multiple Choice

If a participant is shown a picture for a brief interval (30 ms) ,although they are not able to report the details of the picture,they are able to report the gist of what was in the picture.This suggests

• A) we can focus our attention in as little as 30 ms.
• B) our visual memory system is much faster than consciousness.
• C) we can be somewhat conscious of something even if we cannot focus attention on it.
• D) we only pay attention to things that are important to us.

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