Cognitive Psychology Exam 1
1. Cognitive neuropsychologist often use ____, which can indicate the ongoing activities of the
different áreas of the brain but not as invasive as PET (does not involve the use of radioactive
glucose)
Answer: fMRI
2. Which of the following is due to a selective attention mechanism?
Answer: inattention blindness
3. The discovery of the disorder called prosopagnosia supports the ___ notion of information
processing in the brain
Answer: Modular
4. Most people after having heard “ocean” and “moon” tend to answer the question “what
detergent brand is your favorite brand?” with “Tide”, but deny that they are affected by the
“ocean and moon”. This suggests that
Answer: Both A and C are true
5. Which of the following is a structural imaging
Answer: MRI
6. Which of the following can show the locations of high level of activities in the brain by
showing bright colors in the cross-sectional imaging of the brain?
Answer: PET
7. Which finding is not consistent with the single-channel bottleneck model of selective
attention?
Answer: All of the above
8. Because _____ introspectionism has become obsolete
Answer: All of the above
9. Which of the following approaches considers memory errors as providing more information
about how our memory works than accurate recall?
Answer: Memory Schema
10. Ebbinghaus’ memory experiments showed that
Answer: A lot of forgetting occurred shortly after learning
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, 11. In the RVSP test, people tend to miss a target that follows in close proximity to the first
target. This is known as
Answer: Attentional blink
12. If someone keeps calling a woman’s maiden last name instead of her new married last
name, this person’s ____ process in his memory is not successful
Answer: Inhibition of Old Information
13. Suppose you got a pay raise of $2000. Are you happy about it? “it all depends on how
much my colleagues got.” This demonstrates that perception is?
Answer: Relational
14. Cognitive psychology emerged as a revolt against ____ psychology
Answer: Behaviorism
15. Research on context and speech perception has demonstrated that
Answer: people often do not notice a missing sound that occurs within the context of a
sentence
16. If the time to find a target among distractions is a linearly increasing function of the
number of distractors, the search?
Answer: is likely serial
17. You see a small light dot moving across the night sky, and you tell your child, “look at the
airplane” (although you did not actually see that it is an airplane). This shows that perception is
Answer: Inferential
18. Face inversion effect occurs because
Answer: face perception is a holistic perception
19. Researchers taking the _______ approach found many similarities between human memory
and computer memory and borrowed terms from computer science to describe human memory,
such as encoding, strong, retrieving, memory buffer, etc.?
Answer: Information Processing
20. Phoneme restoration, categorical perception, filling in the gaps In speech perception are
similar in that
Answer: they are all top down perception
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1. Cognitive neuropsychologist often use ____, which can indicate the ongoing activities of the
different áreas of the brain but not as invasive as PET (does not involve the use of radioactive
glucose)
Answer: fMRI
2. Which of the following is due to a selective attention mechanism?
Answer: inattention blindness
3. The discovery of the disorder called prosopagnosia supports the ___ notion of information
processing in the brain
Answer: Modular
4. Most people after having heard “ocean” and “moon” tend to answer the question “what
detergent brand is your favorite brand?” with “Tide”, but deny that they are affected by the
“ocean and moon”. This suggests that
Answer: Both A and C are true
5. Which of the following is a structural imaging
Answer: MRI
6. Which of the following can show the locations of high level of activities in the brain by
showing bright colors in the cross-sectional imaging of the brain?
Answer: PET
7. Which finding is not consistent with the single-channel bottleneck model of selective
attention?
Answer: All of the above
8. Because _____ introspectionism has become obsolete
Answer: All of the above
9. Which of the following approaches considers memory errors as providing more information
about how our memory works than accurate recall?
Answer: Memory Schema
10. Ebbinghaus’ memory experiments showed that
Answer: A lot of forgetting occurred shortly after learning
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, 11. In the RVSP test, people tend to miss a target that follows in close proximity to the first
target. This is known as
Answer: Attentional blink
12. If someone keeps calling a woman’s maiden last name instead of her new married last
name, this person’s ____ process in his memory is not successful
Answer: Inhibition of Old Information
13. Suppose you got a pay raise of $2000. Are you happy about it? “it all depends on how
much my colleagues got.” This demonstrates that perception is?
Answer: Relational
14. Cognitive psychology emerged as a revolt against ____ psychology
Answer: Behaviorism
15. Research on context and speech perception has demonstrated that
Answer: people often do not notice a missing sound that occurs within the context of a
sentence
16. If the time to find a target among distractions is a linearly increasing function of the
number of distractors, the search?
Answer: is likely serial
17. You see a small light dot moving across the night sky, and you tell your child, “look at the
airplane” (although you did not actually see that it is an airplane). This shows that perception is
Answer: Inferential
18. Face inversion effect occurs because
Answer: face perception is a holistic perception
19. Researchers taking the _______ approach found many similarities between human memory
and computer memory and borrowed terms from computer science to describe human memory,
such as encoding, strong, retrieving, memory buffer, etc.?
Answer: Information Processing
20. Phoneme restoration, categorical perception, filling in the gaps In speech perception are
similar in that
Answer: they are all top down perception
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