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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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1. What is the 'magic number' which refers to our limits on our capacity for information processing?
2. Behaviorism is mainly concerned with ____ , while cognitive psychology is mainly concerned with ____.
3. The major change/advancement that has taken place in magnetic resonance imagery technology is that the new version of this traditional technique can reveal the ____ of the areas of the brain.
4. What is the most important component for object recognition?
5. Which of the following would occur if someone asked you not to think about something?
6. __________ was one of the first scientists to correlate brain activity with changes in behavior.
7. 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 ____.
8. 610-430-7692 is a North American telephone number.The hyphens here represent the phenomena of ____, which allows us to increase our _____ capacity.
9. 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.
10. Which is true of information in short-term-memory?
11. The experimenter gives Sally the following list of words to view for a short period of time: chirp, sparrow, bluejay, canary, feathers, nest, pigeon, and robin.When asked which words were in the original list, Sally indicates that bird was one of the words listed.This is an example of a ____.
12. Sarah's friend Jack gives her a telephone number to a pizza parlor but she does not have a pen.Sarah gets off the phone but continues to repeat the number until it is successfully dialed.In this example, Sarah is engaging in ____, which is considered the active part of the ____—a dimension of working memory.
13. This technique modulates brain activity and is currently being researched for its potential clinical applications (e.g., as an alternative to antidepressant medication).
14. Most individuals diagnosed with ADHD have a problem retaining information in working memory due to inattentiveness or impairment in ____ environmental interference—both difficulties broadly indicate problems of ____.
15. This neuroscience technique produces physiological images based on the detection of radiation.
16. In one experiment, participants were given pictures of two objects presented at different angles and asked to determine if the objects were the same.The results of this experiment revealed that the reaction times increase linearly with the rotation angle of the objects.This finding on mental rotation tasks lends support to which theory of mental imagery?
17. The temporary buffer, proposed in the filter model of attention, is captured best by which term?
18. The fact that we perceive 3 lines of asterisks close together rather than 14 vertical collections of 3 asterisks each is due to which of the following gestalt laws?
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19. This type of memory is most correlated to intelligence or aptitude.
20. 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?
21. According to Treisman's Feature Integration Theory, the preattention stage in object perception is characterized by which of the following?
22. A mother looks at her baby and smiles, the baby responds by smiling, the mother grabs her hand and gets closer, the baby gurgles and continues to smile.This sequence of events exemplifies which social phenomenon?
23. Deciding between two bags that you like when you can only afford to buy one is an example of what phenomenon?
24. The 'yes-no' discrimination task is associated with the ____ theory used primarily in the study of ____.
25. _______ is a subspecialty within the field of cognitive science that attempts to be biologically accurate by modeling the behavior of large numbers of realistic neurons organized into functionally significant brain areas.

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