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Which of the following statements accurately describes Donald Broadbent's Filter Model (1958) regarding the processing of sensory information?
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- 1It suggests that attention operates like a visual spotlight that engages and disengages rapidly to enhance spatial processing, regardless of the stimuli's physical characteristics.
- 2It proposes that attention is an automatic orienting response triggered by salient external stimuli, completely bypassing the sensory store and working memory.
- 3It asserts that attention acts as a selective filter that selects information based on physical characteristics and completely blocks unattended messages, routing attended ones through a bottleneck.✓
- 4It asserts that attention works as an attenuator that reduces the strength of unattended stimuli without completely blocking them, allowing them to be processed by a hierarchical structure.
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It asserts that attention acts as a selective filter that selects information based on physical characteristics and completely blocks unattended messages, routing attended ones through a bottleneck.
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