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PSYCH206 Final Exam - Cognitive Psychology
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1. This area of the brain is responsible for language processing, comprehension, and speech production.
2. About how many words are in a two-year-old's vocabulary?
3. In one study, the researchers found that stockbrokers were guided more by past experience and existing beliefs than by logical thinking and rational decision making.The authors conclude which of the following?
4. Which represents the central idea of gestalt principles?
5. 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?
6. Which statement best characterizes the relationship between emotions and moods?
7. Which of the following questions would most likely interest a cognitive psychologist?
8. When performing two ____ tasks simultaneously, your task performance will be lowered.
9. 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.
10. __________ technology can identify the two areas of the brain associated with language production and comprehension.
11. Behaviorism is mainly concerned with ____ , while cognitive psychology is mainly concerned with ____.
12. In this study on mental imagery, participants were shown a picture.After a period of time, some individuals see that embedded in this nonsensical picture (i.e., unidentifiable object) is a picture of a Dalmatian.Findings revealed that those individuals who recognized the dog remembered the picture better.Which statement best describes the main conclusions of this study?
13. When we are asked to picture a bird, what do we see?
14. The 'yes-no' discrimination task is associated with the ____ theory used primarily in the study of ____.
15. 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?
16. Which of the following items represents the one idea that remains current in psychology today?
17. Regarding the regulation of drives, which statement is NOT true?
18. ______ is a cognitive neuroscience technique that measures changes in specific patterns in response to specific external stimuli.
19. 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?
20. 610-430-7692 is a North American telephone number.The hyphens here represent the phenomena of ____, which allows us to increase our _____ capacity.
21. Three of the four terms listed are alike.Which of the following terms does not fit with the others?
22. 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?
23. This type of memory is most correlated to intelligence or aptitude.
24. Bob, an amnesic patient, cannot remember his name but he can remember how to brush his teeth.In this example, Bob has maintained his ____ memory but lost or damaged his ____ memory.
25. ____ reasoning is associated with the mental model theory, a theory based on the principle that ____.

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