Author Question: An illusory conjunction occurs when a. people pay selective attention to unusual features and ... (Read 118 times)

809779 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

An illusory conjunction occurs when

a. people pay selective attention to unusual features and ignore ordinary, common features.
b. people are not able to use focused attention.
c. people use bottom-up processing.
d. people use templates during object recognition.

Question 2

Suppose that you are searching for a set of square-shaped, red earrings on a jewelry counter that has four kinds of earrings: square blue, square red, round blue, and round red. If Treisman's research on attention applies to this task,

a. you would find the square red earrings equally fast, whether there are few or many other earrings.
b. you would find the square red earrings faster than you would find any earrings that are red.
c. the number of other square earrings and the number of other red earrings would influence the time taken to find the square red earrings.
d. it would take less time to find that the square red earrings are not there than to find that they are there.