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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. A current successful application of cognitive psychology is its contributions to our understanding of brain
disorders that reflect abnormal functioning, such as schizophrenia.
a. True
b. False
2. There is a great deal of growth of new neurons and new synapses in the adult brain.
a. True
b. False
3. In the two decades between 1950 and 1970, cognitive psychology developed as a field by embracing
behaviorism.
a. True
b. False
4. The terminal boutons of one neuron touch the dendrite of another.
a. True
b. False
5. Coarse coding, an aspect of neural information processing, implies that single neurons seem to respond to
only specific events.
a. True
b. False
6. Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how cognition is realized in the brain.
a. True
b. False
7. Gestalt psychologists believe that the activity of the mind is more than the sum of its parts.
a. True
b. False
8. From an information-processing point of view, the MOST important components of the nervous system are
the neurons.
a. True
b. False
9. Information-processing analysis breaks a cognitive task down into a set of steps.
a. True
b. False
10. Artificial intelligence researchers have created a program that matches human intelligence.
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a. True
b. False
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11. Jesse is a researcher working with split-brain patients. He presents a complex command to one patient in the
right ear (the right-ear patient) and presents the same complex command to another patient in the left ear (the
left-ear patient). Jesse finds that:
a. the left-ear patient displays full comprehension, while the right-ear patient does not.
b. the right-ear patient displays full comprehension, while the left-ear patient does not.
c. both patients display full comprehension.
d. neither patient displays full comprehension.
12. The _____ portion of the brain is disproportionately larger in primates than in most mammals.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. temporal
13. The claims of Gestalt psychologists, that the activity of the brain and the mind was more than the sum of its
parts, conflicted with the _____ program that tried to analyze conscious thoughts into its parts.
a. behaviorist
b. introspectionist
c. functionalist
d. psychoanalytic
14. The field of cognitive neuroscience focuses on how cognition is realized in the:
a. brain.
b. neurons.
c. glial cells.
d. peripheral nervous system.
15. Developments in which field did NOT influence the emergence of cognitive psychology?
a. artificial intelligence (AI)
b. Internet technology
c. information theory
d. linguistics
16. According to _____, all knowledge comes from experience.
a. empiricism
b. nativism
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c. relativism
d. verticality
17. The _____ lobe is involved in object recognition.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. temporal
18. The text recommends the PQ4R study technique for better retention of material, where the acronym PQ4R
means:
a. Peruse, Question, Recognize, Retrieve, Reflect, Review
b. Practice, Quiz, Recognize, Retrieve, Reflect, Review
c. Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review
d. Persevere, Quiz, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review
19. _____ form the fixed pathways by which neurons transmit action potentials.
a. Axons
b. Dendrites
c. Somas
d. Muscles
20. The cerebellar Purkinje cell is a variety of:
a. motor neurons.
b. sensory neurons.
c. neurons.
d. glial cells.
21. A synapse is the:
a. point at which an axon from one neuron touches the dendrite of another.
b. point at which a dendrite from one neuron touches the dendrite of another.
c. space shared by an axon from one neuron and a dendrite from another.
d. space shared by a dendrite from one neuron and a dendrite from another.
22. The hemodynamic response to a neural activity reaches a peak about:
a. 4 to 5 s before the event.
b. 4 to 5 s after the event.
c. simultaneously with the event.
d. 10 s after the event.
23. In _____, a radioactive tracer is injected into the bloodstream.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
1. A current successful application of cognitive psychology is its contributions to our understanding of brain
disorders that reflect abnormal functioning, such as schizophrenia.
a. True
b. False
2. There is a great deal of growth of new neurons and new synapses in the adult brain.
a. True
b. False
3. In the two decades between 1950 and 1970, cognitive psychology developed as a field by embracing
behaviorism.
a. True
b. False
4. The terminal boutons of one neuron touch the dendrite of another.
a. True
b. False
5. Coarse coding, an aspect of neural information processing, implies that single neurons seem to respond to
only specific events.
a. True
b. False
6. Cognitive neuroscience is the study of how cognition is realized in the brain.
a. True
b. False
7. Gestalt psychologists believe that the activity of the mind is more than the sum of its parts.
a. True
b. False
8. From an information-processing point of view, the MOST important components of the nervous system are
the neurons.
a. True
b. False
9. Information-processing analysis breaks a cognitive task down into a set of steps.
a. True
b. False
10. Artificial intelligence researchers have created a program that matches human intelligence.
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a. True
b. False
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11. Jesse is a researcher working with split-brain patients. He presents a complex command to one patient in the
right ear (the right-ear patient) and presents the same complex command to another patient in the left ear (the
left-ear patient). Jesse finds that:
a. the left-ear patient displays full comprehension, while the right-ear patient does not.
b. the right-ear patient displays full comprehension, while the left-ear patient does not.
c. both patients display full comprehension.
d. neither patient displays full comprehension.
12. The _____ portion of the brain is disproportionately larger in primates than in most mammals.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. temporal
13. The claims of Gestalt psychologists, that the activity of the brain and the mind was more than the sum of its
parts, conflicted with the _____ program that tried to analyze conscious thoughts into its parts.
a. behaviorist
b. introspectionist
c. functionalist
d. psychoanalytic
14. The field of cognitive neuroscience focuses on how cognition is realized in the:
a. brain.
b. neurons.
c. glial cells.
d. peripheral nervous system.
15. Developments in which field did NOT influence the emergence of cognitive psychology?
a. artificial intelligence (AI)
b. Internet technology
c. information theory
d. linguistics
16. According to _____, all knowledge comes from experience.
a. empiricism
b. nativism
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c. relativism
d. verticality
17. The _____ lobe is involved in object recognition.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. temporal
18. The text recommends the PQ4R study technique for better retention of material, where the acronym PQ4R
means:
a. Peruse, Question, Recognize, Retrieve, Reflect, Review
b. Practice, Quiz, Recognize, Retrieve, Reflect, Review
c. Preview, Question, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review
d. Persevere, Quiz, Read, Reflect, Recite, Review
19. _____ form the fixed pathways by which neurons transmit action potentials.
a. Axons
b. Dendrites
c. Somas
d. Muscles
20. The cerebellar Purkinje cell is a variety of:
a. motor neurons.
b. sensory neurons.
c. neurons.
d. glial cells.
21. A synapse is the:
a. point at which an axon from one neuron touches the dendrite of another.
b. point at which a dendrite from one neuron touches the dendrite of another.
c. space shared by an axon from one neuron and a dendrite from another.
d. space shared by a dendrite from one neuron and a dendrite from another.
22. The hemodynamic response to a neural activity reaches a peak about:
a. 4 to 5 s before the event.
b. 4 to 5 s after the event.
c. simultaneously with the event.
d. 10 s after the event.
23. In _____, a radioactive tracer is injected into the bloodstream.
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