Author Question: The attention mechanism that keeps salient but irrelevant information from entering the current ... (Read 46 times)

bobbie · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

The attention mechanism that keeps salient but irrelevant information from entering the current stream of thought is __________.

a. selection
b. mitigation
c. repression
d. inhibition

Question 2

According to Lavie, the attentional filter is more likely to be guided by physical characteristics when attention is __________ and by semantic characteristics when attention is __________.

a. not taxed; taxed
b. taxed; not taxed
c. voluminous; limited
d. limited; voluminous