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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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1. The 'cognitive revolution' was borne out of a reaction to ______________, the predominant school of thought within psychology in the 1950s.
2. Which is true of information in short-term-memory?
3. According to your reading, the best predictor of flight performance out of a sample of pilots in training was which of the following?
4. 'Because he always jogs, a mile seems a short distance to him.' This is an example of a garden path sentence which highlights the principle of ____ and the ____ approach of parsing.
5. If a problem is specified in terms of ____, people tend to use a risk-aversion strategy, while a problem description in terms of ____ leads to applying a risk-taking strategy.
6. You talk to a friend who expresses that she is trying to just 'stop' thinking about a particular upsetting topic/subject.Given the findings on the postsuppression rebound effect (Wegner et al. 1977), you might advise her to do which of the following?
7. Which of the following would occur if someone asked you not to think about something?
8. Three of the four terms listed are alike.Which of the following terms does not fit with the others?
9. Enkamn and Friesen studied facial expressions across people from a variety of different cultures and determined which of the following?
10. When we are asked to picture a bird, what do we see?
11. Which is an example of a confirmation bias?
12. You read an article entitled, 'Gestalt Perception and Local-Global Processing in High-Functioning Autism.'In this article, they found that individuals with HFA processed gestalt stimuli ____ in accord with gestalt laws, particularly in regard to the principle of ____.
13. The major assumption of Biederman's object recognition theory is that it is mediated by recognition of the components of the object. This theory is most similar to which theory of pattern recognition?
14. This part of the brain becomes active when participants are asked to create detailed images.
15. Which of the following is NOT a factor that makes human language unique?
16. One research study showed that if letters have many features in common, such as the letters C and G, then subjects are particularly prone to confuse them.This provides evidence for what theory of pattern recognition?
17. Noam Chomsky pointed to the phenomena of ____ to build evidence toward his thesis that behaviorism does not explain all phenomena.
18. According to Treisman's Feature Integration Theory, the preattention stage in object perception is characterized by which of the following?
19. When error feedback was given to participants who got the wrong answer to a problem, approximately 1/3 of the cases subsequently got the problem right.This is likely due to the fact that 1/3 of the cases were due to which of the following?
20. This type of memory is most correlated to intelligence or aptitude.
21. __________ technology can identify the two areas of the brain associated with language production and comprehension.
22. According to Biederman's (1977) theory of object perception, an individual will classify the category of each subobject.This represents the ____ stage of object perception.In this stage, there are ____ geons in which the subobjects may be classified.
23. Behaviorism is mainly concerned with ____ , while cognitive psychology is mainly concerned with ____.
24. A person argues that cigarette smoking is not unhealthy because his grandfather smoked three packs of cigarettes a day and lived to be 100. The grandfather's health could simply be an unusual case that does not speak to the health of smokers in general.This is an example of which heuristic which can lead to incorrect conclusions?
25. Ill-defined problems are often best suited toward which type of strategy?

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