Test Bank For
Cognitive Psychology Fifth Edition Koshino, Juola
Chapters 1-15
1. Which cognitive task is designed to tap inhibitory processes and asks participants to name
the colour in which colour names are presented?
a. Stroop
b. Anti-saccade
c. Stop-signal
d. Wisconsin colour sort
e. ANT task
Answer: A
2. Early versions of the information-processing approach assumed that all processing was:
a. Parallel and bottom-up
b. Serial and bottom-up
c. Serial and top-down
d. Serial and parallel
e. Parallel and top-down
Answer: B
3. Parallel processing is most likely to occur when:
a. People attempt a new task
b. People lack the necessary skills to complete a task
c. People attempt to process a task sequentially
d. People are highly practised at a task
e. All of these
Answer: D
4. Which research field attempts to construct computer systems that produce intelligent
outcomes, but without necessarily any regard for whether the processes involved bear a
resemblance to those used by humans?
a. Artificial intelligence
b. Computational cognitive science
c. Cognitive neuropsychology
d. Cognitive neuroscience
e. Physiological psychology
Answer: A
5. Which neurologist produced a cytoarchitectonic map of the brain, with many of these
numbered regions corresponding to functionally distinct areas?
a. Weber
, b. Ebbinghaus
c. Lashley
d. Milner
e. Brodmann
Answer: E
6. The extent to which laboratory findings are applicable to everyday life is called:
a. Individual differences
b. Measurement reliability
c. Ecological validity
d. Hubristic albescence
e. Sentience
Answer: C
7. A processor in the cognitive system that functions in an independent/separate fashion is
termed a:
a. Node
b. Lexicon
c. Unit
d. Component
e. Module
Answer: E
8. The notion that parts of the processing system can be impaired by brain damage, but parts
cannot be added, forms the basis of which cognitive neuropsychology assumption?
a. Domain specificity
b. Subtractivity
c. Additivity
d. Anatomical interdependence
e. Uniformity
Answer: B
9. If one patient performs well on task A, but poorly on task B, and another performs poorly on
task A, but well on task B, we say that we have a(n):
a. Trifecta
b. Association
c. Deviant association
d. Syndrome
e. Double dissociation
Answer: E
,10. A group of symptoms or impairments commonly found together is known as a:
a. Lesion
b. Syndrome
c. Cohort
d. Distributed network
e. Categorical misnomer
Answer: B
11. In order to address the problem that brain-damaged patients do not represent a
homogeneous group, many cognitive neuropsychologists use:
a. Group studies
b. Diary studies
c. Observation studies
d. Case studies
e. Double-blind studies
Answer: D
12. What term is used to describe the exaggerated importance of neuroimaging to further our
understanding of cognition?
a. Ghosting
b. Neuroenchantment
c. Aliasing fallacy
d. Neuroimaging illusion
e. Neural trap
Answer: B
13. Technically, the signal measured in fMRI is known by which acronym?
a. MEG
b. ERP
c. OXYN
d. BOLD
e. ACT-R
Answer: D
14. Which computational modelling theory was developed by Anderson (1993)?
a. E-Z Reader
b. ACT-R
c. TRACE model
d. Working memory theory
e. NETtalk
Answer: B
, 15. A unit in a connectionist network will produce an output when:
a. The weighted sum of all inputs exceeds a threshold
b. It receives any excitatory input
c. It receives any inhibitory input
d. It forms a connection with an inhibitory unit
e. It is flooded by an antagonist
Answer: A
16. The process whereby a neural network learns to associate an input pattern with an output
pattern, by comparing actual responses against correct ones, is called:
a. Forward propagation
b. Retroactive interference
c. Backward propagation
d. Proactive interference
e. Retrospective learning
Answer: C
17. Which of the following divides the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain?
a. Lateral fissure
b. Parieto-occipital sulcus
c. Pre-occipital notch
d. Corpus callosum
e. Central sulcus
Answer: E
18. Which term is used to describe structures that are located at the sides of the brain?
a. Medial
b. Lateral
c. Dorsal
d. Ventral
e. Occipital
Answer: B
19. The term that describes how precisely a technique can identify where in the brain a task is
being performed is:
a. Temporal resolution
b. Medial resolution
c. Magnetic resolution
d. Spatial resolution
e. None of these
Answer: D
Cognitive Psychology Fifth Edition Koshino, Juola
Chapters 1-15
1. Which cognitive task is designed to tap inhibitory processes and asks participants to name
the colour in which colour names are presented?
a. Stroop
b. Anti-saccade
c. Stop-signal
d. Wisconsin colour sort
e. ANT task
Answer: A
2. Early versions of the information-processing approach assumed that all processing was:
a. Parallel and bottom-up
b. Serial and bottom-up
c. Serial and top-down
d. Serial and parallel
e. Parallel and top-down
Answer: B
3. Parallel processing is most likely to occur when:
a. People attempt a new task
b. People lack the necessary skills to complete a task
c. People attempt to process a task sequentially
d. People are highly practised at a task
e. All of these
Answer: D
4. Which research field attempts to construct computer systems that produce intelligent
outcomes, but without necessarily any regard for whether the processes involved bear a
resemblance to those used by humans?
a. Artificial intelligence
b. Computational cognitive science
c. Cognitive neuropsychology
d. Cognitive neuroscience
e. Physiological psychology
Answer: A
5. Which neurologist produced a cytoarchitectonic map of the brain, with many of these
numbered regions corresponding to functionally distinct areas?
a. Weber
, b. Ebbinghaus
c. Lashley
d. Milner
e. Brodmann
Answer: E
6. The extent to which laboratory findings are applicable to everyday life is called:
a. Individual differences
b. Measurement reliability
c. Ecological validity
d. Hubristic albescence
e. Sentience
Answer: C
7. A processor in the cognitive system that functions in an independent/separate fashion is
termed a:
a. Node
b. Lexicon
c. Unit
d. Component
e. Module
Answer: E
8. The notion that parts of the processing system can be impaired by brain damage, but parts
cannot be added, forms the basis of which cognitive neuropsychology assumption?
a. Domain specificity
b. Subtractivity
c. Additivity
d. Anatomical interdependence
e. Uniformity
Answer: B
9. If one patient performs well on task A, but poorly on task B, and another performs poorly on
task A, but well on task B, we say that we have a(n):
a. Trifecta
b. Association
c. Deviant association
d. Syndrome
e. Double dissociation
Answer: E
,10. A group of symptoms or impairments commonly found together is known as a:
a. Lesion
b. Syndrome
c. Cohort
d. Distributed network
e. Categorical misnomer
Answer: B
11. In order to address the problem that brain-damaged patients do not represent a
homogeneous group, many cognitive neuropsychologists use:
a. Group studies
b. Diary studies
c. Observation studies
d. Case studies
e. Double-blind studies
Answer: D
12. What term is used to describe the exaggerated importance of neuroimaging to further our
understanding of cognition?
a. Ghosting
b. Neuroenchantment
c. Aliasing fallacy
d. Neuroimaging illusion
e. Neural trap
Answer: B
13. Technically, the signal measured in fMRI is known by which acronym?
a. MEG
b. ERP
c. OXYN
d. BOLD
e. ACT-R
Answer: D
14. Which computational modelling theory was developed by Anderson (1993)?
a. E-Z Reader
b. ACT-R
c. TRACE model
d. Working memory theory
e. NETtalk
Answer: B
, 15. A unit in a connectionist network will produce an output when:
a. The weighted sum of all inputs exceeds a threshold
b. It receives any excitatory input
c. It receives any inhibitory input
d. It forms a connection with an inhibitory unit
e. It is flooded by an antagonist
Answer: A
16. The process whereby a neural network learns to associate an input pattern with an output
pattern, by comparing actual responses against correct ones, is called:
a. Forward propagation
b. Retroactive interference
c. Backward propagation
d. Proactive interference
e. Retrospective learning
Answer: C
17. Which of the following divides the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain?
a. Lateral fissure
b. Parieto-occipital sulcus
c. Pre-occipital notch
d. Corpus callosum
e. Central sulcus
Answer: E
18. Which term is used to describe structures that are located at the sides of the brain?
a. Medial
b. Lateral
c. Dorsal
d. Ventral
e. Occipital
Answer: B
19. The term that describes how precisely a technique can identify where in the brain a task is
being performed is:
a. Temporal resolution
b. Medial resolution
c. Magnetic resolution
d. Spatial resolution
e. None of these
Answer: D
