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newyorker26 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Suppose you are a radiologist reading mammograms. Your job is to determine whether there are any suspicious, possibly malignant images. In this type of task, the stimulus that you are attempting to detect may be called a ____.

a. filter
b. signal
c. false alarm
d. hit

Question 2

____ refers to our ability to attend to some stimuli while ignoring or minimally processing other stimuli.

a. Selective attention
b. Vigilance
c. Search
d. Multiple-task processing