Cognitive Psychology Questions

one of the most effective ways to make our memories distinctive is to use mental a. cures b. rehearsalc. imageryd. concentration

when we take in information in the course of daily life such as the words and diagrams presented during a lecture we are using the memory process of a. retentionb. encodingc. retrieval d. fixation

shane is studying for a vocab test when he studies the word braggart he thinks of how his friend bill acts whenever bill wins a tennis match shane is processing this word at a a/ shallow levelb. intermediate levelc. deep leveld. personal level

you tell your friends about the great time you had at the local sic flags amusement park most of the info that you have forgotten about this experience was most likely professed in youra. personal memory b. short term memoryc. long term memoryd. sensory memory`

carrie prides herself on "nerves forgetting a face" although she frequently cannot put the correct name with a specific carries is really saying that she a. is better at recognition than at recall b. is better at recall than at recognitionc. is better at memory retrieval than at memory reconstruction

before an exam professor sweetheart tells the class how brilliant they are she tells the students that she has seen them learning the concepts in class and fells confident that everyone can remember the material in contrast professor meanie tells her class that she realizes they have been bored most of the time probably cannot remember most of the material and that she does not expect much from his group of uninspired pupils although the material is the same and the test are the same professor sweethearts students perform better on the test what basic memory process might explain this difference a. the professors are classically conditioning the students their classesb. the professors are priming different behavior so that concept related to learning and brilliance are more available to professor sweethearts studentsc. the professor are influencing the semantic memory of the students d. the professors are influencing the episodic memory of the students

linus and polly are arguing over the best way to study for an upcoming psychology exam polly tries to tell linus that the best way to remember things is to use flashcards but linus an astrophysics major spends a lot of time jotting down the connections between his psychology class and concepts from astrophysics polly warns him "you are wasting your time your just going to get confused " what do you think of pollys warning a. linus should listen to polly there truly is one best way to remember thingsb. polly should back off linus is elaborating on the material at a deep level and this approach will probably pay off on the exam c. linus is likey to et confused when the exam has a astrophysics questiond. polly will do better because flashcards require shallow processing

the three processes of memory are encoding ____ and retrieval a. storageb. rehearsalc. recollectiond. fixation

salty memory can occur due to a. biasb. receipt of new infoc. distortion d. all of the above

Which perception process are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup involved in?

The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called what?

Which of the following describes a perception process that the Gesalt psychologists would have been interested in?

Which of the following might result from a disruption of your vestibular sense?

Which of the following is most likely to influence our memory of a painful event?

When we go to the movies, we see smooth continuous motion rather than a series of still images because of which process?

Two monocular depth cues are most responsible for our ability to know that a jet flying overhead is at an elevation of several miles. One cue is relative size. What is the other?

Our tendency to see faces in clouds and other ambiguous stimuli is partly based on what perception principle?

Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process?

Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles & movements are called what?

How many things can we remember at a time? (Miller 1956)