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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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1. Noam Chomsky pointed to the phenomena of ____ to build evidence toward his thesis that behaviorism does not explain all phenomena.
2. Ulric Neisser is best known for his work on which topic?
3. Which is NOT a difference between experts and novices in terms of problem solving?
4. 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?
5. There are several steps involved with getting a train connection, including determining where and when the first train arrives, looking for possible other trains in case you don't get the right connection, determining departure and arrival times, and finding the correct platform.Lastly, you must put all of this information together to come up with a 'plan.'This type of problem solving, which often occurs in everyday situations, is known as _____.
6. ____ appears to be a strictly human function.It requires an understanding of the goals and perceptions of other involved agents, as well as the ability to share and communicate these goals.
7. This neuroscience technique produces physiological images based on the detection of radiation.
8. __________ was one of the first scientists to correlate brain activity with changes in behavior.
9. Which statement best captures the main difference between drives and motives?
10. Most individuals who work within the field of cognitive science believe that the mind is analogous to which of the following?
11. Which term is best associated with the experience of arriving at a destination by car and not remembering the drive?
12. Which statement is NOT true of cognitive psychology?
13. Which famous cognitive psychologist was credited with determining that short-term memory can generally only hold seven items of information?
14. 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.
15. 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?
16. ____ reasoning is associated with the mental model theory, a theory based on the principle that ____.
17. This portion of the brain is linked with the transformation of information from short-term to long-term memories.
18. 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?
19. Which of the following items represents the one idea that remains current in psychology today?
20. 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.
21. 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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22. Regarding the regulation of drives, which statement is NOT true?
23. The 'yes-no' discrimination task is associated with the ____ theory used primarily in the study of ____.
24. 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?
25. Broadbent's theory of attention focused on the presence of a ____, while Treisman focused on the presence of a _____.