COG PSYCH EXAM 1

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Colin Cherry’s experiment in which participants listened to two messages simultaneously, one in each ear, found that

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A mental conception of the layout of a physical space is known as a(n)

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After seeing several commercials where celebrities are wearing “Boom” shoes, Steve really wants a pair. Steve’s desire to have a pair of the shoes could best be explained by

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The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses can be

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All of the following are part of B.F. Skinner’s three term contingency except

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The cognitive revolution resulted in dramatic changes in the way psychology was studied and understood. This so-called "revolution" occurred parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction of

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Suyen is arguing that humans have a unique capacity for language because of neurological changes that resulted from evolution. From this, Suyen is arguing for

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Newell and Simon were among the first to use computers in cognitive psychology. Their computer program

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Given that populations grow exponentially and there are limited resources, Darwin inferred that

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The procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

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The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?

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The field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as

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The result of natural selection over many generations is

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Ebbinghaus' "memory" experiments were important because they

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In order to conduct research in psychology, which of the following was considered necessary by the behaviorists?

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All of the following are mental abilities or processes involved in cognition except

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By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to

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Angelina has received six stickers for cleaning her room this week. If she recieves one more, she’ll get to have a special dessert of her choosing after supper. Angelina’s behavior can be best explained by

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One’s psychology can be viewed as a continuum fromtoto.

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All of the following are reasons to use models to understand cognition except

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The fusiform face area (FFA) in the brain is often damaged in patients with

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Shinkareva et al. (2008) conducted research mind reading that revealed

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The way patterns of neural firing represent a specific stimulus or experience is known as

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Sarah has experienced brain damage making it difficult for her to understand spatial layout. Which area of her brain has most likely sustained damage?

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The idea of a grandmother cell is consistent with

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You are walking down the street and see a really nice car drive by. You notice many features of it: its color, movement, shape, location, and so forth. All of these features are first processed

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The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as

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Which of the following is not consistent with the idea of localization of function?

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Which of the following statements best describes how neurons communicate with one another?

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The occipital lobe is

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The _____ lobe of the cortex serves higher cognitive functions such as problem solving, decision making, attention, and information processing.

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A 10-month-old baby is interested in discovering different textures, comparing the touch sensations between a soft blanket and a hard wooden block. Tactile signals such as these are received by the _____ lobe.

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Which of the following do PET and fMRI have in common?

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Damage to Wernicke's area is in which lobe of the brain?

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Neurons that respond to specific details or parts that make up objects are called

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When recording from a single neuron, stimulus intensity is represented in a single neuron by the

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When conducting an experiment on how stimuli are represented by the firing of neurons, you notice that neurons respond differently to different faces. For example, Arthur's face causes three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the most and neuron 3 responding the least. Roger's face causes the same three neurons to fire, with neuron 1 responding the least and neuron 3 responding the most. Your results support ____ coding.

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A synapse is

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If kittens are raised in an environment that contains only verticals, you would predict that most of the neurons in their visual cortex would respond best to the visual presentation of a

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Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored, often with jumbled sentence structure. Josiah may have damage to his

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Speech segmentation is defined as

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Hollingsworth’s studies of blobs indicate that we perceive information based on

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Selfridge’s Pandemonium Model describes processing at several levels or demons. The processing of vertical lines, horizontal lines, angles, or curves, for example, would occur at the level of the ______ demon.

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In which neurological disorder might mirror neurons be most likely to be implicated as a potential cause of the disorder?

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The neurons that respond while watching a demonstrator perform a task are called

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People perceive vertical and horizontal orientations more easily than other orientations according to the

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The pathway leading from the striate cortex in the occipital lobe to the temporal lobe is known as the

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One problem with Selfrige’s Pandamonium Model is that it

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Damage to the temporal lobe makes the _____ more difficult.

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The likelihood principle states that

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Jane is four, and when playing in the park recently, she saw a dog that she’d never seen before. Even though she had never seen the dog, she was able to label the dog as being a dog. This scenario causes problems for which explanation of perception?

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The results of Gauthier’s "Greeble" experiment illustrate

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Patients with associative visual agnosia might be able to correctly draw or copy an image but not recognize what it is. This is an example of a

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"Perceiving machines" are used by the U.S. Postal service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of

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Generally, if we can see an object's geons, we are able to identify the object. This is known as the

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The landmark or spacial discrimination problems are more difficult to do if you have damage to your _____lobe.

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In Selfrige’s Pandamonium Model, features of a stimulus are detected at the level of the _______ demon.

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One problem with the Template Matching Theory of perception is that

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You are at a parade where there are a number of marching bands. You perceive the bands that are all in the same uniforms as being grouped together. The red uniforms are one band, the green uniforms another, and so forth. You have this perceptual experience because of the law of

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When a double dissociation occurs, this indicates that two functions

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Dichotic listening occurs when

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Broadbent’s "filter model" proposes that the filter identifies the attended message based on the

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Suppose two teenagers are vying for their mother’s attention. The mother is trying to pay attention to one of her daughters, though both girls are talking (one about her boyfriend, one about a school project). According to the operating characteristics of Treisman’s attenuator, it is most likely the attenuator is analyzing the incoming messages in terms of the

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In Schneider and Shiffrin’s experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate whether a target stimulus was present in a series of rapidly presented "frames," divided attention was easier

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The Stroop effect demonstrates

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Strayer and Johnston’s (2001) experiment involving simulated driving and the use of "hands-free" vs. "handheld" cell phones found that

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The use of an eye tracker can help reveal the shifting of one's _____ attention.

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Automatic processing occurs when

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When Sam listens to his girlfriend Susan in the restaurant and ignores other people's conversations, he is engaged in the process of ____ attention.

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When a person is shadowing a message, he or she is

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The cocktail party effect is

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The main difference between early and late selection models of attention is that in late selection models, selection of stimuli for final processing doesn’t occur until the information is analyzed for

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A high threshold in Treisman’s model of attention implies that

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Flanker compatibility experiments have been conducted using a variety of stimulus conditions. By definition, this procedure must include at least one target and one distractor. In any condition where we find that a distractor influenced reaction time, we can conclude that the distractor

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The ability to pay attention to, or carry out, two or more different tasks simultaneously is known as

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Controlled processing involves

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In Simons and Chabris's "inattentional blindness" experiment, participants watch a film of people playing basketball. Many participants failed to report that that a gorilla walked through because the

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According to Treisman’s feature integration theory, the first stage of perception is called the _____ stage.

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Illusory conjunctions are

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Research on the use of cell phones while driving indicates that

Psychology Quiz am COG PSYCH EXAM 1, erstellt von Sara Stamey am 19/10/2016.

COG PSYCH EXAM 1

Colin Cherry’s experiment in which participants listened to two messages simultaneously, one in each ear, found that

A mental conception of the layout of a physical space is known as a(n)

After seeing several commercials where celebrities are wearing “Boom” shoes, Steve really wants a pair. Steve’s desire to have a pair of the shoes could best be explained by

The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses can be

All of the following are part of B.F. Skinner’s three term contingency except

The cognitive revolution resulted in dramatic changes in the way psychology was studied and understood. This so-called "revolution" occurred parallel to (and, in part, because of) the introduction of

Suyen is arguing that humans have a unique capacity for language because of neurological changes that resulted from evolution. From this, Suyen is arguing for

Newell and Simon were among the first to use computers in cognitive psychology. Their computer program

Given that populations grow exponentially and there are limited resources, Darwin inferred that

The procedure in which trained participants describe their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli presented under controlled conditions is known as

The "Little Albert" experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?

The field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as

The result of natural selection over many generations is

Ebbinghaus' "memory" experiments were important because they

In order to conduct research in psychology, which of the following was considered necessary by the behaviorists?

All of the following are mental abilities or processes involved in cognition except

By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to

Angelina has received six stickers for cleaning her room this week. If she recieves one more, she’ll get to have a special dessert of her choosing after supper. Angelina’s behavior can be best explained by

One’s psychology can be viewed as a continuum from________to________to________.

All of the following are reasons to use models to understand cognition except

One’s psychology can be viewed as a continuum fromtoto.