Cognitive Psychology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Cognitive Psychology explores the mental processes that underlie human behavior, including perception, attention, memory, language, problem-solving, and decision-making. This course examines how we acquire, process, and store information, and investigates the cognitive mechanisms that support thinking and learning. Through the analysis of experimental findings and theoretical perspectives, students gain a deeper understanding of how cognitive functions are affected by factors such as development, environment, and neurological conditions. The course integrates insights from neuroscience, computer science, and linguistics to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary research in cognitive psychology.
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Memory Foundations and Applications 3rd Edition by Bennett L. Schwartz
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Memory
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Q1) The goal of memory science is to make generalizations of how memory works in reality than studying it carefully in a controlled lab.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A researcher needs to see a good representation of a compromise between good spatial resolution and good temporal resolution.Which imagery equipment should the researcher use?
A)MEG
B)PET
C)fMRI
D)EEG
Answer: A
Q3) The ______ effect is the observation that memory is usually superior for items at the end of a list.
Answer: regency
Q4) Describe the importance of Transmagnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Answer: Stimulation causes cognitive changes.
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Chapter 2: Memory and the Brain
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Q1) These are a set of brain structures located just beneath the crebral cortex.They are important to memory and emotion.
A)medial temporal system
B)limbic system
C)episodic memory system
D)associated memory system
Answer: B
Q2) Information from neurons to neurons is accomplished by: A)axons.
B)synapses.
C)neurotransmitters.
D)dendrites.
Answer: C
Q3) In a serious accident that results in brain damage, memory deficits acquired through brain damage will result in:
A)Alzheimer's.
B)amnesia.
C)concussion.
D)engram aversion.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Working Memory
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Q1) What task measures a list of digits presented by an experimenter?
A)hearing and sight
B)sensory learning
C)retrograde learning
D)digital span
Answer: D
Q2) Baddeley's model of working memory states that:
A)working memory is not necessary for a working cognition system.
B)working memory is composed of separable sub-systems.
C)working memory is equivalent to the phonological loop.
D)previous models of working memory had no validity.
Answer: B
Q3) Articulatory suppression requires the use of the:
A)coconcurrent task loop.
B)phonological loop.
C)phonological task.
D)phonological encoding.
Answer: B
Q4) Primary memory is a term used to mean ______ memory.
Answer: short-term
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Chapter 4: Episodic Memory
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Q1) Akiko studies half of the countries of Europe, but not the other half.When tested on her knowledge of European countries, Akiko is likely to show:
A)mood congruence; she will remember the countries that she studied when she was in a good mood.
B)levels of processing; she will remember the countries that she studied using perceptual priming.
C)maintenance rehearsal; she will remember those countries that she is keeping in working memory.
D)part-set cueing; she will remember those countries she studied well, but will retrieve the remaining half worse than if she had not studied.
Q2) Representation, in memory science, meAnswer:
A)how we store information when it is not currently in use.
B)how we learn new information.
C)if we will enter the memory into our prospective memory system.
D)is synonymous with episodic memory, but is an older term.
Q3) Describe the importance of Endel Tulving's work on memory.
Q4) Highly confident personal memories of surprising events are termed ______ memories.
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Chapter 5: Semantic Memory
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Q1) Which is an example of a fuzzy category?
A)all isosceles triangles
B)whole numbers
C)Asian-Americans
D)none of the above
Q2) Semantic memory is:
A)a working memory system.
B)a long-term memory system for general world knowledge.
C)a long-term memory system for the words in our native languages.
D)a working memory system for visual information.
Q3) An associative model means that we represent information in semantic memory in terms of connections among units of information.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A ______ is a mental construct that contains information associated with a specific idea.
Q5) Explain the Situated Simulation theory.
Q6) The lexeme is the level of representation that stores the meaning of an item.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Visual Memory
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Q1) FFA is a part of the occipital lobe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Patient DQ has difficulty recognizing faces, even those of close family members, even though he can recognize them by voice.Your diagnosis?
A)temporal lobe amnesia
B)hemifield neglect
C)prosopagnosia
D)auditory transaphasia
Q3) Own-Race bias means that people are better at recognizing members of their own race.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cognitive maps are mental representations of the internal world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ______ neglect has deficits in both visual attention and attention in visual imagery.
Q6) ______ representation means that we store visual images like pictures.
Q7) ______ imagery is also called photographic memory.
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Chapter 7: Autobiographical Memory
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Q1) Field memories are ______ and visual memories in which we see the memory as if we were looking at the event through our own eyes.
Q2) Dickson, Pillemer, and Bruehl (2011) found a reminiscence bump for events:
A)that were surprising and therefore not part of the person's lifetime period or cultural scripts as well as positive and script-relevant events.
B)only for recent events.
C)only for young adults.
D)all of the above.
Q3) In Conway's theory of autobiographical memory, specific events refers to ______ memory.
Q4) An example of a lifetime period is:
A)the memory of your 11th birthday.
B)remembering when your cat was lost for a day.
C)thinking about "when you worked at the grocery store."
D)remembering the long drive you took from Montreal in Canada to Dallas, in the United States.
Q5) Neuroimaging studies on ______ memory show that both specific and general cues elicit activity in the medial temporal lobe and hippocampus.
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Chapter 8: False Memory
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Q1) In the imagination inflation paradigm, research shows that:
A)in order for a false memory occur, it must be imagined repeatedly.
B)no amount of cueing can induce false memories that concern traumatic events.
C)even imagining an event will increase the likelihood that the event will later be judged to have occurred.
D)false memories occur regardless of economic conditions.
Q2) A valid and often-made criticism of the DRM procedure for inducing critical intrusions is that false memories ______ may be unlike false memories for real-world trauma.
Q3) Explain active suppression and what action it deliberately forces.
Q4) In McCloskey and Zaragoza (1985), the misinformation effect did not occur because:
A)the distractors in a recognition test did not include the misinformation.
B)the researchers used neutral words instead of emotional words.
C)the participants were warned about the possibility of misinformation.
D)blending of the original event and the misinformation occurred.
Q5) Elizabeth Loftus developed the false memory ______ procedure because she was interested with devising an experimental model for real-world false memories.
Q6) Explain retrieval bias.
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Chapter 9: Metamemory
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Q1) Research on retrospective confidence and eyewitness memory show that:
A)if a witness is highly confident that his or her memory is correct, this is given substantial weight by juries.
B)highly confident witnesses are actually less accurate than less confident witnesses.
C)people cannot assess others' confidence, so highly confident witnesses do not impact jury decision-making.
D)when juries are allowed to make decisions about cases using free-report conditions, their jury-making decisions are less than optimal.
Q2) Feelings of knowing and tip-of-the-tongue states differ from judgments of learning because the former judgments:
A)concern metacognitive monitoring.
B)show inordinately high accuracy.
C)are more closely correlated with control behaviors.
D)are based on judgments at retrieval, not encoding.
Q3) Describe indirect or inferential theories.
Q4) Familiar cues can influence the strength of a feeling of knowing.This observation is consistent with the ______ theory.
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Chapter 10: Memory Disorders
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Q1) H.M.became amnesic when:
A)his hippocampus was surgically removed.
B)he suffered a closed head injury in an auto accident.
C)he suffered a stroke.
D)he nearly drowned.
Q2) Which of the following are considered the signs of early stage of Alzheimer's disease?
A)global aphasia, anosognosia, and hemifield neglect
B)deficits in autobiographical memory and decision-making errors
C)retrograde amnesia, confabulation, and source monitoring deficits
D)deficits in episodic memory, mild anterograde amnesia, and lexical retrieval difficulties
Q3) In implicit memory tasks, patients with amnesic syndrome show:
A)huge deficits, in fact, bigger deficits than they show in explicit memory.
B)little to no repetition priming in word fragment completion.
C)that they can attempt these tasks, but their performance is limited by the amnesia.
D)normal repetition priming in word fragment completion.
Q4) ______ fugue refers to when the patient forgets his or her personal identity in addition to access to their autobiographical past.
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Chapter 11: Memory in Childhood
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Q1) Schneider et al. (2000) examined the ability of kindergartners, second-graders, and fourth graders to make JOLs (judgments of learning).They found that:
A)none of the grade school children showed accurate predictions of memory performance.
B)only the fourth-graders showed accurate judgments.
C)all three grade levels were above-chance at predicting performance.
D)the younger children made JOLs, but the older children preferred to make FOKs.
Q2) Studies in event memory in children age 5 suggest that:
A)childhood amnesia has already set in.
B)children at this age are not yet capable of laying down long-term memories.
C)5-year-olds can remember events from prior to their first birthday.
D)many 5-year-olds can remember events accurately from up to 2 years earlier.
Q3) Children between the ages of 3 and 6 do not:
A)remember events from their lives.
B)use elaborative encoding spontaneously.
C)engage in any strategic behavior with respect to memory.
D)show any evidence of having developed a theory of mind.
Q4) Explain the term "elaboration" as it relates to memory strategies.
Q5) Explain the memory efficiency view.
Q6) Explain Wimmer and Perner's (1983) experiment on false belief.
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Chapter 12: Memory in Older Adults
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Q1) Research on the "use it or lose it hypothesis" suggests that:
A)education is a buffer against age-related declines in memory.
B)older adults must constantly restudy vocabulary in order not to forget it.
C)highly stressed adults maintain memory performance into older age than do more low stress individuals.
D)older adults suffer from deficits in sensory processing which paradoxically can improve memory for source events.
Q2) Older adults, relative to younger adults,
A)have more difficulty recognizing melodies when they are played at a fast tempo than when they are played at a slower tempo.
B)have less difficulty recognizing melodies when they are played at a fast tempo than when they are played at a slower tempo.
C)show no differences in music recognition.
D)have more difficulty recognizing melodies at all tempos.
Q3) Because older adults tend to recall less items in paired associate learning, their JOLs tend to be ______ numerically than younger adults.
Q4) Declines in the size of the ______ lobe are associated with declines in memory performance in older adults.
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Chapter 13: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency
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Q1) That we underestimate future forgetting and overestimate future remembering based on what we can retrieve now is known as ______ bias.
Q2) Explain stability bias.
Q3) Encoding variability means that:
A)multiple encoding conditions produce good recall.
B)retrieval conditions should match encoding conditions.
C)retrieval conditions should be more variable than encoding.
D)each individual encoding produces an independent memory trace.
Q4) Describe an Acrostic.
Q5) Research on the ______ effect shows that participants remember the generated associations better than the read associations.
Q6) Describe encoding specificity.
Q7) The famous ROY G BIV that stands for the colors of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) is an example of:
A)acrostic.
B)appendectomy.
C)acronym.
D)episodic memory.
Q8) Explain distributed learning or practice.
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