1. Which of the following was not a force supporting the reemergence of cognitive psychology in the late fifties? A) the emergence of communication theory B) the "failure" of behaviorism C) modern linguistic theory D) reemphasis on operant conditioning techniques--(my answer) E) advances in computer technology
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1. Which of the following was not a force supporting the reemergence of cognitive psychology in the late fifties?
A) the emergence of communication theory
B) the "failure" of behaviorism
C) modern linguistic theory
D) reemphasis on operant conditioning techniques--(my answer)
E) advances in computer technology
2. George Miller (and others) fix 1956 as the date of the beginning of cognitive science and base it on ________.
A) a book about information theory
B) a symposium on information theory
C) a symposium on memory --(my answer)
D) the book Remembering
E) the book Awakenings
3. Hubel and Weisel shared a noble prize in single-cell research where they put a probe in the brain into
which of the following animals?
A) Cats --(my answer)
B) Humans
C) Monkeys
D) Pigeons
4. The left hemisphere is primarily responsible for:
A) spatial processing
B) tactile recognition
C) music and nonverbal memory
D) face processing
E) language and verbal processing--(my answer)
5. The pituitary gland is:
A) the master gland of the endocrine system --(my answer)
B) coordinates muscle movement
C) relays information between the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum
D) regulates temperature
E) controls thinking and sensing
6. Perception is influenced by:
A) past knowledge
B) previous hypotheses
C) sensory signals
D) prejudices
E) all of the above--(my answer)
7. Sally took part in an experiment where she wore a special set of headphones that played different
messages to each ear. The researchers asked her to repeat the message in her left ear as she listened to it. Based on the results of similar studies, it is likely that Sally will:
A) not be able to recall the content of either message that she is listening to
B) not be able to recall the content of the message that is playing in her right ear --(my answer)
C) be unable to hear either message
D) be able to easily recall both message, even though she only attended to the message in one ear
E) not be able to follow just one message, and will often switch between the two messages
8. Iconic storage has been studied by:
A) Moray
B) Shepard
C) James
D) Sperling --(my answer)
E) Sperry
9. Which test is described as blood flow rates in the brain are evaluated by means of radioactive tracers?
A) fMRI
B) MEG
C) FFA
D) PET--(my answer)
10. Which term is defined as the relationship between the physical changes of the world and the
psychological experiences associated with these changes?
A) Psychophysics --(my answer)
B) Biophysics
C) Perceptual physics
D) Dynamics
11. A mnemonic such as "one is a bun, two is a shoe..." is an example of:
A) organization by acronym
B) the word-rhyme technique
C) the key word method
D) a peg-word system --(my answer)
E) the method of Loci
12. Clive Wearing was known for
A) His extraordinary memory
B) Surgery to remove the amygdala
C) His inability to remember--(my answer)
D) His theory of Paleocentristic Thinking
13. "K.C." was known for
A) His inability to remember facts
B) His inability to remember experiences--(my answer)
C) His inability to remember faces
D) His inability to remember numbers
14. The amygdala is often associated with
A) Semantic memory
B) Flashbulb memories--(my answer)
C) Sensory storage
D) The visuo-spatial sketchpad
15. Priming effects involve
A) The impact of a stimulus on a response to a subsequent stimulus--(my answer)
B) The lack of shift in perception following mnemonic cues
C) The transitory states following fMRI measurement
D) The amnesia associated with perceptual blindness
16. Rene Descartes is associated with
A) Psychophysical interactionism
B) Psychophysical parallelism--(my answer)
C) Monism
D) Deconstructed modernism
17. Franz Joseph Gall is associated with
A) fMRI development
B) Phrenology--(my answer)
C) the magical number 7 +/- 2
D) the phonological loop
18. Sperling's partial report tests for
A) Multiple meanings of attention
B) Psycho-social neurologies
C) Iconic storage--(my answer)
D) Semantic libraries
19. Which of the following is NOT one of the Gestalt principles of form perception?
A) Regularity--(my answer)
B) Similarity
C) Continuity
D) Proximity
20. Which of the following individuals had his hippocampus surgically removed?
A) K. C.
B) H. M.--(my answer)
C) C. W.
D) Phinneas Gage
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