Rats repeatedly had food for 12 hours, followed by a very sweet diet. On a day when the rats had no access to the sweet diet, what did they do?

a. They showed intermittent bursts of activity resembling attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
b. They stared into the distance as if they were hallucinating

A representation that may occur in many sensory modalities, and that resembles what it represents, is a

a. concept. b. mental image. c. cognitive schema. d. proposition.

In the chapter on memory, you learned that our sensory memory is a temporary storage facility with a duration of only a brief second or two where information is maintained while we decide what to do with it

In the filter theory of attention, the sensory __________ serves the same purpose of holding information until it is accepted or rejected by a filter. a. container b. retainer c. nucleus d. buffer