1. You bring Sally outside and point to a tree and ask her to identify what it is.Sally says 'brown, leaves, trunks.'Which brain-based problem does Sally have?

2. Ill-defined problems are often best suited toward which type of strategy?

3. _______ 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.

4. When we are asked to picture a bird, what do we see?

5. When performing two ____ tasks simultaneously, your task performance will be lowered.

6. 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.

7. According to your reading, the best predictor of flight performance out of a sample of pilots in training was which of the following?

8. This type of memory allows us to store a snapshot of our environment for a very brief time.

9. Many people have very specific memories of where they were when they heard/learned about the 9/11 tragedy.Which item best captures the type of memory highlighted in this example?

10. About how many words are in a two-year-old's vocabulary?

11. The temporary buffer, proposed in the filter model of attention, is captured best by which term?

12. Which is an example of a confirmation bias?

13. Which of the following is NOT a factor that makes human language unique?

14. 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?

15. 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.

16. What is the 'magic number' which refers to our limits on our capacity for information processing?

17. Which is true of the processing of syntax and semantics?

18. 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?

19. This theory of attention proposes that people's intentions and the demands of the task determine the information processing stage at which information is selected.

20. You are at an important dinner party.To help you remember the names of the people you meet, you associate each name with an object/thing that you like (e.g., Annie Apple).Which item best captures the main concept of this example?

21. Research has shown that playing 'tit for tat' in the prisoner's dilemma game is the most effective strategy.This finding supports which theory of social interaction?

22. While you were studying for this exam, you previewed the readings (i.e., table of contents, scanned images, major topic headings), created questions for each section, read the readings carefully, reflected on the content as you were reading, and after reading, tried to recall the information presented.You were employing which mnemonic method to help you retain the knowledge presented?

23. Which is NOT a difference between experts and novices in terms of problem solving?

24. ______ is a cognitive neuroscience technique that measures changes in specific patterns in response to specific external stimuli.

25. This portion of the brain is linked with the transformation of information from short-term to long-term memories.