Which of the following students provides the most complete and accurate definition for the term attention?
a. Josh: Attention refers to a focusing of cognitive processing so that you can concentrate on about seven stimuli.
b. Maeve: Attention refers to the active process of combining isolated stimuli into a meaningful whole.
c. Jenn: Attention is a storage component that takes in all possible external stimuli and holds them for several seconds.
d. Igor: Attention lets you concentrate your cognitive activity so that you can focus on information from your memory and your sensory world.
Question 2
What can we conclude about the two major explanations for speech perception?
a. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues against a phonetic module approach.
b. Humans show categorical perception for nonspeech sounds, which argues for a phonetic module approach.
c. Humans cannot use visual cues as aids to the perception of phonemes, which argues against a general mechanism approach.
d. Infants use a general mechanism approach, whereas adults typically use a phonetic module approach.
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