Cognitive Psychology
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Course Introduction
Cognitive Psychology explores the mental processes that underlie human behavior, focusing on how people perceive, learn, remember, and think. This course examines theories and research related to attention, perception, memory, language, problem-solving, decision-making, and cognitive development. Students will learn about experimental methods used to study the mind, as well as applications of cognitive psychology in areas such as education, artificial intelligence, and mental health. Through lectures, readings, and practical activities, the course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how cognitive processes shape everyday experiences and behaviors.
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Psychological Science 5th Edition by Michael
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Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
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Q1) Damon thinks that it is impossible to study the experience of consciousness.Instead,he believes psychologists should focus only on the actions people take and why they take them.Damon believes in the ________ approach to psychology.
A) structuralist
B) behaviorist
C) evolutionary
D) psychoanalytic
Answer: B
Q2) Emily has created an individualized program to teach coping strategies to each child with learning disabilities.Emily is most likely a(n)________ psychologist.
A) school
B) developmental
C) counseling
D) cognitive
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) How are the scientific goals of description and explanation different?
A) Description aims to identify the state of a research field; explanation aims to discuss the future of a research field.
B) Description aims to characterize what a phenomenon is; explanation aims to illustrate why a phenomenon occurs.
C) Explanation aims to identify the state of a research field; description aims to discuss the future of a research field.
D) Explanation aims to characterize what a phenomenon is; description aims to illustrate why a phenomenon occurs.
Answer: B
Q2) One of the four main goals of science is explanation.The main goal of scientists addressing this goal is to explain:
A) why a behavior occurs.
B) the steps of the scientific method.
C) how data collection works.
D) why a researcher wants to study a behavior.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Biology and Behavior
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Q1) What do we call the neurons on the receiving side of a synaptic cleft?
A) postsynaptic neurons
B) presynaptic neurons
C) interneurons
D) excitatory neurons
Answer: A
Q2) A synapse is a:
A) chemical.
B) joint.
C) signal.
D) gap.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following statements is a myth about brain plasticity across the life span?
A) Most forgetting occurs later in life.
B) Adult brains form no new cells.
C) Neurogenesis occurs across the life span.
D) Environmental conditions play a large role in neurogenesis.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Consciousness
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Q1) If you were relaxed with your eyes closed and were given an EEG,what type of brain waves would show up on your EEG?
A) beta waves
B) alpha waves
C) theta waves
D) sleep spindles
Q2) A person whose EEG shows predominantly theta waves is most likely:
A) awake.
B) in stage 1 sleep.
C) in stage 4 sleep.
D) in stage 2 sleep.
Q3) The particular kind of experience that is so engrossing and enjoyable that you do it for its own sake,rather than because of its consequence,is called:
A) self-reinforcing behavior.
B) escapism.
C) flow.
D) runner's high.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which part of the auditory system is most commonly damaged in people who receive cochlear implants?
A) temporal lobes
B) auditory nerve
C) ossicles
D) hair cells
Q2) Prashanth is participating in a psychology experiment in which he is asked to gradually shrink the image of a square on his computer screen until he can see that it is smaller than a second square on the screen.Prashanth is trying to create a ________ in order to allow measurement of a ________.
A) just noticeable difference; absolute threshold
B) psychophysical difference; absolute threshold
C) just noticeable difference; difference threshold
D) psychophysical difference; difference threshold
Q3) Pain medications such as Novocain work by:
A) changing pain stimuli so that they cannot be received by sensory pain neurons.
B) blocking transmission from sensory pain neurons to the brain.
C) integrating information from sensory pain neurons and sensory relief neurons.
D) diverting signals from the sensory pain neurons to the thalamus.
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) You know that genetics has given your new baby sister innate traits,such as how to suckle and cry.Yet some people tell you that she is born knowing nothing.These people believe in ________,which says that the environment teaches infants everything.
A) pure minds
B) tabula rasa
C) a clean start
D) white space
Q2) Who believed that conditioning processes were the basis for how animals learned to adapt to their environments?
A) John Locke
B) Charles Darwin
C) Ivan Pavlov
D) Edward Thorndike
Q3) Food is considered a primary reinforcer,whereas ________ is a secondary reinforcer.
A) water
B) sex
C) money
D) juice
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Laken takes a course in which her professor talks about Virginia Woolf's novel,To the Lighthouse.The next semester,Laken writes a paper for another class on Virginia Woolf.In her paper,Laken uses ideas that her earlier professor had presented,while believing that she has developed these ideas herself.Laken's behavior is _________ and comes from _______.
A) plagiarism; absentmindedness
B) plagiarism; cryptomnesia
C) ethical; persistence
D) ethical; the sleeper effect
Q2) Short-term memory is transferred to long-term memory via a process called:
A) attention.
B) maintenance rehearsal.
C) encoding.
D) transduction.
Q3) People are especially bad eyewitnesses when:
A) they do not feel confident about their testimony.
B) the person who committed the crime is of the same race as the eyewitness.
C) they are asked to recall an event that occurred in the real world.
D) the person who committed the crime is of a different race than the eyewitness.
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Chapter 8: Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) Consider two representations.Representation A is abstract and bears no systematic relationship to what it represents,whereas Representation B shares some features of what it represents.Representation A is a(n)________ and Representation B is a(n)________.
A) symbolic representation; analogical representation
B) analogical representation; symbolic representation
C) analogical representation; analogical representation
D) symbolic representation; symbolic representation
Q2) Correlations among test items that create clusters of related items have been identified using:
A) factor analysis.
B) qualitative research.
C) controlled experiments.
D) regression analysis.
Q3) ________ intelligence is involved in reasoning,processing novel events,and thinking flexibly.
A) Pragmatic
B) Crystallized
C) Fluid
D) Analytic
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Chapter 9: Human Development
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Q1) Young children are able to perceive visual stimuli with the same precision as adults:
A) when the child is approximately 4 years old.
B) about one year after birth
C) as a function of the child's binocular disparity.
D) by 6 months of age.
Q2) You encounter a child who is high in sympathy.Psychological research suggests that her parents:
A) show frequent anger and are lax in their discipline.
B) are likely to make her feel shame easily.
C) are high in sympathy.
D) are very likely to reward appropriate behavior in the child.
Q3) As discussed in your textbook,the case of Bruce,who was surgically and hormonally reassigned to a female identity (Brenda),illustrates that:
A) gender identity is not totally dependent on how one is socialized.
B) gender is highly changeable if biological changes are also made.
C) how a person thinks about his or her gender identity is less important than that person's biological sex.
D) surgical reassignment to the other sex is usually successful.
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Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation
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Q1) Makena has recently started taking an antidepressant that increases levels of serotonin.You might expect that she will start to:
A) experience less pleasure from sex.
B) have more interest in sex.
C) experience more pleasure from sex.
D) have less interest in sex.
Q2) Bingwen does not like formal clothes,but he must buy a suit for his sister's wedding.He goes to seven stores before he finds a suit that he likes.Bingwen's going to buy a suit shows the ________ quality of motivation.His search through seven stores shows the ________ quality of motivation.
A) energizing; directive
B) energizing; persistent
C) directive; energizing
D) directive; persistent
Q3) The James-Lange theory of emotion states that:
A) the emotions we experience cause our bodily reactions.
B) our perception of bodily responses leads to our emotions.
C) our emotions and bodily responses occur simultaneously.
D) emotion and physical reaction happen independently but at the same time.
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Chapter 11: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Dr.Z.,a mad scientist,wants to create a human population that is completely trusting so he can take over the world.To accomplish this transformation,he should increase humans' secretion of the hormone:
A) oxytocin.
B) norepinephrine.
C) testosterone.
D) peptide.
Q2) Health psychologists focus on:
A) the absence of disease.
B) subjective reports of health.
C) theories rather than research.
D) promoting health and well-being.
Q3) If you would like to minimize the negative effects of stress in your life,which of the following jobs would you most want to avoid?
A) air traffic controller
B) teacher
C) fundraiser
D) musician
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) Jed has been working so hard that he forgot Abby's birthday.Though Abby is disappointed,she is not hurt.She decides that he forgot her birthday because he is so dedicated to his work,not because he does not care about her.Abby is engaged in ________,by making a ________ attribution.
A) assimilation; partner-enhancing B) assimilation; distress-maintaining C) accommodation; partner-enhancing D) accommodation; distress-maintaining
Q2) Relationships tend to form between individuals that regularly come into contact with each other.This demonstrates the role of ________ in relationship formation. A) work experience
B) the amount of money one has C) proximity
D) physical attractiveness
Q3) As designed by Aronson,in a jigsaw classroom,students:
A) form new ingroups to break barriers between existing outgroups. B) compete with ingroup members and cooperate with outgroup members. C) study the customs of the members of their outgroups.
D) must cooperate with both ingroup and outgroup members.
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Most people:
A) are unrealistically optimistic about their futures.
B) overestimate their control over events.
C) overestimate their abilities.
D) all of the above
Q2) The strategy of "basking in the glow of reflected glory":
A) results in lower self-esteem.
B) is a sign of unhealthy psychological functioning.
C) is the same as the better-than-average effect.
D) maintains self-esteem.
Q3) What is the difference between temperaments and personality traits?
A) Traits are broader than temperaments.
B) Temperaments are broader than traits.
C) There is no difference; traits and temperaments are essentially identical.
D) It depends on the groups one is investigating.
Q4) In this psychosexual stage,the erogenous zone centers on the genitals.
A) oral
B) anal
C) phallic
D) latency
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following statements is NOT true about the development of anxiety disorders?
A) It can be linked to a fearful experience in childhood.
B) It can be linked to an introverted temperament in childhood.
C) It can be linked to an inhibited temperament in childhood.
D) It can be linked to perceiving ambiguous events as threatening.
Q2) A person who cannot tolerate the idea of being alone,who has highly negative emotional reactions to relationship disruption,and who often acts impulsively fits the description of someone with ________ disorder.
A) borderline personality
B) narcissistic personality
C) bipolar
D) schizoaffective
Q3) Psychologists who argue for the importance of biological factors in mental disorders use all of the following kinds of evidence to support this approach EXCEPT:
A) studies of the rates of mental disorders in fraternal versus identical twins.
B) studies of environmental factors,such as diet and toxins,on mental health.
C) structural imaging of the brain in people with various mental disorders.
D) experiments involving gene alteration in individuals with mental disorders.
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Odelia has schizophrenia and has been successfully treated with medication; her visual and auditory hallucinations have decreased,and she no longer believes that her great aunt speaks to her through the television.However,Odelia still has some odd behaviors,and others view her as a little strange.Odelia's doctor will most likely recommend that she receive:
A) social skills training.
B) mindfulness training.
C) assertiveness training.
D) biofeedback training.
Q2) Individuals with antisocial personality disorder are difficult to treat because they:
A) are so focused on the future that they lose sight of their present difficulties.
B) care little about how others feel about their behavior.
C) have excessively low self-esteem and believe therapists will not want to help them.
D) view their problems as too overwhelming to treat.
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