1. Which of the following questions would most likely interest a cognitive psychologist?

2. Which is true of information in short-term-memory?

3. 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?

4. 610-430-7692 is a North American telephone number.The hyphens here represent the phenomena of ____, which allows us to increase our _____ capacity.

5. 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 ____.

6. The drive-reduction theory was conceived by _____.

7. Ulric Neisser is best known for his work on which topic?

8. Joe is irritated because he needs a paperweight and does not have one.Sitting next to his desk is a hammer; however, he is unable to see how the hammer can be used as a paperweight. This inability to see a hammer's use as anything other than pounding nails highlights which phenomena?

9. ____ 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.

10. 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?

11. Your friend is buying a used car and focuses excessively on the odometer reading and model year of the car in evaluating the value of the car.However, she does not consider how well the engine or the transmission is maintained.This is an example of which of the following misleading effects present in decision-making processes?

12. 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?

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

15. Although there are many similarities between the Signal Detection theory and the Similarity Choice theory, according to your reading, what is the one fundamental distinction between these two theories?

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

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

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

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. In this theory of mental imagery, a complex object like a car would be represented in the mind as a structure of nodes which represents the car's properties (i.e., car = category: mode of transportation; materials: metal, glass; contains: wheel, seats; function: to transport; shape: box-like, etc.)

21. 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?

22. Deciding between two bags that you like when you can only afford to buy one is an example of what phenomenon?

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

24. Noam Chomsky pointed to the phenomena of ____ to build evidence toward his thesis that behaviorism does not explain all phenomena.

25. In the article entitled, 'Recognition of Natural Scenes from Global Properties: Seeing the Forest without Representing the Trees,' the authors found evidence that supported which conclusion?