Cognitive Psychology Questions
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The type of attention that involves the ability to maintain attention to a selected stimulus for a prolonged period of time, thus allowing infants to learn about and remember characteristics of a stimulus as it becomes familiar:
4 months - babbling speech sounds10 months - babbling resembles household language12 months - one-word24 months - two-word (telegraphic)24+ - develops rapidly into sentences
standardized - defined, meaningful scoresreliability - consistent scoresvalidity - measures what it's supposed to
In some ways, the injuries that Wearing sustained are similar to those observed in Patient HM (Henry Molaison) after the removal of his medial temporal lobe in 1953. They both lost their capacity to turn short-term memories into long-term memories (anterograde amnesia) and they both have an intact implicit memory for learning new motor tasks.
1. expertise2. imaginative thinking3. venturesome thinking4. intrinsic motivation5. creative environment
Implicit memory is slightly less intuitive to understand than explicit memory. Implicit memories are woven into the framework of daily life and, unlike explicit memories, cannot always be consciously recalled.
Why are you _______ to say the color of ink of a color word if the color name is presented in the same color ink than if the color name is presented in a different colored ink (Stroop effect)?a- Slower / Congruent features are processed easier than incongruent featuresb- Faster / Congruent features are processed easier than incongruent featuresc- Faster / Incongruent features are processed easier than congruent featuresd- Slower / Incongruent features are processed easier than congruent features
When we pay attention to faces, neurons in __________ are functionally specialized and do selectively responda- PPAb- Visual cortexc- Frontal eye fieldsd- FFA
The lesion of the neglect patient who made the drawing below was likely in the ____________________ .a- right temporal cortexb- left temporal cortexc- right parietal cortexd- left parietal cortex
Which of the following supports the massive capacity of LTM?:a- Robust memory for objects initially fixated after 402 intervening objects were presentedb- Well above chance memory for novel and exemplar but not state changes between objectsc- Well above chance memory for novel and state but not exemplar changes between objectsd- Well above chance memory for novel, state, and exemplar changes between objectse- A & Bf- A & Dg- A & C
If I present a signal on every trial, but sometimes it's really weak and sometimes it's really strong, then I measure your ability to detect the signal...a- I can get you to say "yes" (the signal is present) more even if you didn't see it by telling you I'll reward you each time you spot it.b- I can get you to say "no" (the signal is not present) more even if you think you might see it but you're not sure by telling you I'll punish you for wrong answers.c- Neither A nor Bd- Both A & B
The time it takes you to perform a top-down serial search for _________ feature(s) increases with each item added to the display, and the time it takes you to perform a parallel bottom-up search for ___________ features(s) remains about the same regardless of how many items are in the display.a- One/ more than oneb- Less than four/ more than fourc- More than one/ oned- More than four/ less than four
The bottom-up attentional network is generally more _____________ and the top-down attentional network is generally more ________________.a- Dorsal/ Ventral b- Ventral/ Dorsal c- Left hemisphere/ Right hemisphered- Right hemisphere/ Left hemisphere
If I play your favorite song in your left ear bud and a really boring lecture you don't care about in your right ear bud, will you be aware of anything in that's said in the right ear bud and what model of attention does this support?a- You would be aware of things like your name (cocktail party effect) / supports Broadbent's filter model: Right ear info filtered-out & won't be come consciousb- You would be aware of things like your name (cocktail party effect) / supports Treisman's attenuation model: Left ear info processed more than right ear infoc- You would not even be aware of things like your name (cocktail party effect) / supports neither models as information will be combined equally from both earsd- You would not even be aware of things like your name (cocktail party effect) / supports both models as information will be combined equally from both ears
The cocktail party effect in Question 1 is an example of _________________ attention.a- Top-down / stimulus-drivenb- Bottom-up / stimulus-drivenc- Top-down / intrinsically-directedd- Bottom-up / intrinsically-directed
Which of the following statements is truea- Even if we're not paying attention, we at least see stuff that happens right front of usb- We cannot attend to information in the periphery while looking straight aheadc- When you divide your attention between two tasks, performance on both tasks suffersd- All of these are true
Which of the following findings challenged the idea that there are a fixed number of "slots" in VSTM?a- More individual objects were remembered when they were simple versus complexb- Less individual objects were remembered when they were simple versus complexc- The precision of individual object representations decreased as the number of objects increasedd- The precision of individual object representations increased as the number of objects increased
Which of the following is true regarding transsaccadic memory?a- Its coded only in eye-centered coordinatesb- Its coded only in world-centered coordinatesc- It integrates across a unified time-scaled- All of the abovee- None of the above
The finding that observers perform similarly when detecting whether a single feature or a conjunction of features has changed in an object between a study and test display suggests that...a- VSTM is feature-basedb- VSTM is object-basedc- VSTM has a lower capacity for features versus objectsd- All of these
When we pay attention to something, activity in the __________ is modulateda- Parietal lobeb- Temporal lobec- Occipital lobed- Frontal lobee- Attention involves a network of activations