Cognitive Psychology Test Preparation
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 individuals acquire, process, and store information, drawing on experimental research and theoretical models. Students will gain insights into the mechanisms of thinking and reasoning, understand how cognitive processes interact, and learn about the applications of cognitive principles in everyday life and various fields such as education, technology, and mental health.
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Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition by E. Bruce
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) Donders's main reason for doing his choice reaction time experiment was to study
A) sensation.
B) childhood attachment styles.
C) decision making.
D) personality development.
Answer: C
Q2) In which year was positron emission tomography (PET) introduced and made it possible to see which areas of the human brain are activated during cognitive activity?
A) 1969
B) 1984
C) 1991
D) 1976
Answer: D
Q3) Which memory is used for physical actions?
A) Long-term memory
B) Procedural memory
C) Episodic memory
D) Semantic memory
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Edgar Adrian studied the relationship between nerve firing and sensory experience by measuring how the firing of a neuron from a receptor in the skin changed as he applied more pressure to the skin. He found that
A) the shape and height of the action potential increased as he increased the pressure.
B) the shape and height of the action potential decreased as he increased the pressure.
C) the rate of nerve firing increased as he increased the pressure.
D) the rate of nerve firing decreased as he increased the pressure.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following statements best describes how neurons communicate with one another?
A) Dendrites make direct contact with each other.
B) A chemical process takes place in the synapse.
C) An electrical process takes place in the receptors.
D) Action potentials travel across the synapse.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) A person with strong ________ would likely have a deeper experience of Bayesian influence.
A) principles
B) eyesight
C) sensation
D) beliefs
Answer: D
Q2) Viewpoint ________ is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives.
A) consistency
B) resistance
C) constancy
D) invariance
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is an example of an effect of top-down processing?
A) Recognizing a crying friend's sounds as words in a sentence
B) Seeing a flash of lightning in a thunderstorm
C) Walking all around a car and always knowing it's a car
D) Perceiving all of the birds in a flock as belonging together
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the result of attention in the context of perception?
A) warping
B) enhancement
C) accuracy
D) filtration
Q2) If you are folding towels while watching television, you may find that you don't have to pay much attention to the act of folding while keeping up with the storyline on the TV show. Folding the towels would be an example of a(n) ________ task.
A) attenuated
B) high-load
C) low-load
D) filtered
Q3) Define selective attention, divided attention, and attentional capture. Give an example of each to support your thinking.
Q4) Explain the difference between inattentional blindness and change blindness. Give an example of each to support your thinking.
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Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) When a sparkler is twirled rapidly, people perceive a circle of light. This occurs because
A) the trail you see is caused by sparks left behind from the sparkler.
B) longer light wavelengths from the sparkler produce a visual echoic effect.
C) the length of iconic memory is about a fraction of a second.
D) Gestalt principles work to complete the circle in our minds.
Q2) A person with a reduced digit span would most likely have a problem with ___________ memory.
A) short-term
B) long-term
C) sensory
D) autobiographical
Q3) A task with the instructions "Read the following words while repeating 'the, the, the' out loud, look away, and then write down the words you remember" would most likely be studying
A) articulatory suppression.
B) the visuospatial sketch pad.
C) echoic memory.
D) the central executive.
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
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Q1) The predominant type of coding in long-term memory is
A) phonological.
B) concrete.
C) semantic.
D) visual.
Q2) Researchers understood that KF had experienced a decline in short-term memory capacity because he had a digit span of ________ .
A) one
B) two
C) four
D) six
Q3) ___________ memories are to experiences as ___________ memories are to facts.
A) Semantic; implicit
B) Implicit; episodic
C) Episodic; semantic
D) Procedural; episodic
Q4) In one or two sentences, write an autobiographical memory of something you recently experienced. Then identify the episodic and semantic components of that memory.
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Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
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Q1) Examples from your book describing real experiences of how memories, even ones from a long time ago, can be stimulated by locations, songs, and smells highlight the importance of ___________ in long-term memory.
A) long-term potentiation
B) retrieval cues
C) elaborative rehearsal
D) mass practice
Q2) Dr. Leung is leading a research team to explore the retrieval practice effect. Which of the following will likely be a key component of her team's research protocol?
A) Sleeping
B) Elaborating
C) Organizing
D) Testing
Q3) According to memory research, studying is most effective if study sessions are
A) short but all on a single day.
B) long and all on a single day.
C) short and across several days.
D) long and across several days.
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Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) Schrauf and Rubin's "two groups of immigrants" study found that the reminiscence bump coincided with periods of rapid change, occurring at a normal age for people emigrating early in life but shifting to 15 years later for those who emigrated later. These results support the
A) cognitive hypothesis.
B) self-image hypothesis.
C) narrative rehearsal hypothesis.
D) autobiographical hypothesis.
Q2) Explain why it is better that we cannot remember every single thing that we experience.
Q3) The experiment for which people were asked to make fame judgments for both famous and non-famous names (and for which Sebastian Weissdorf was one of the names to be remembered) illustrated the effect of __________ on memory.
A) repeated rehearsal of distinctive names
B) source misattributions
C) encoding specificity
D) schemas
Q4) Provide an example of when you experienced the Proustian effect. What was your response to the experience?
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Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
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Q1) Learning takes place in a connectionist network through a process of ___________ in which an error signal is transmitted starting from the property units.
A) graceful degradation
B) error verification
C) spreading activation
D) back propagation
Q2) One criticism of the embodied approach is that it doesn't explain how humans can recognize ________.
A) colors
B) abstractions
C) actions
D) artifacts
Q3) According to Collins and Quillian's semantic network model, it should take longest to verify which statement below?
A) Turtles are turtles.
B) A turtle is an animal.
C) A turtle is related to a fish.
D) A turtle is an amphibian.
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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) Leaving a footprint in the wet sand-with a deep indentation for the heel, a rise for the arch, and each toe clearly identified-is similar to which concept?
A) Pegword
B) Mental walk
C) Depictive representation
D) Topographic map
Q2) Monique is an interior design student. As part of her internship, she is redesigning a small kitchen for a client. She would like to expand the kitchen and add a dining area. Before creating sketches for the client, she imagines the new layout in her mind, most likely using
A) tacit knowledge.
B) a proposition.
C) the method of loci.
D) a depictive representation.
Q3) "3x + 9 = 16" is a___________representation.
A) depictive
B) spatial
C) propositional
D) descriptive
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Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a distinctive way of speaking. His statement, "Afraid you will be," violates which property of the English language?
A) Language involves the use of a lexicon.
B) Coding is required for language.
C) Language symbols must have high discriminability.
D) Language has a structure that is governed by rules.
Q2) A researcher had participants read each of the sentences below and measured the time it took to read each sentence.
Trial 1: The lamb ran past the cottage into the pasture.
Trial 2: The dog ran past the house into the yard.
The participants' response times were longer for ____________________ because of the ____________________ effect.
A) trial 2; word frequency
B) trial 1; word frequency
C) trial 2; word superiority
D) trial 1; word superiority
Q3) Compare and contrast Skinner's and Chomsky's views on language acquisition. Give examples of each perspective to support your ideas.
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) From a cognitive psychology perspective, explain why it might be beneficial for a company to hire recent graduates rather than people who have lengthy experience in the company's field of business.
Q2) The analogical paradox refers to problem-solving differences between A) experts and novices.
B) laboratory and real-world settings.
C) experimental groups and control groups.
D) well- and ill-defined problems.
Q3) Compare and contrast functional fixedness and mental set. Give examples of each in the context of problem solving to support your thinking.
Q4) Describe methods a person can use to increase his or her creativity. If you use any of these methods, give an example of how it has been helpful. If not, which method do you think would be most useful for you and why?
Q5) The process of analogical encoding is focused on ________.
A) finding similarity
B) generating ideas
C) fostering insight
D) creating value
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Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
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Q1) Failing to consider the law of large numbers most likely results in errors concerning A) confirmation bias.
B) utility.
C) the falsification principle.
D) the representativeness heuristic.
Q2) Which of the following activities would require Type 2 cognitive processing?
A) Zipping your jacket when it's cold
B) Choosing an entree from a menu
C) Making a left turn on a green light
D) Turning the lights off at bedtime
Q3) What is the backfire effect? What cognitive factors are at work in this process?
Describe a time when you have experienced the backfire effect with someone else-either exhibiting it or receiving it.
Q4) Use of the word "If" is a good way to identify a(n) ________ syllogism.
A) categorical
B) conditional
C) irrational
D) invalid
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