Cognitive Psychology Test Questions
Course Introduction
Cognitive Psychology explores the mental processes that underlie human behavior, including perception, memory, attention, language, problem-solving, and decision making. This course examines how people acquire, process, and store information, drawing on experimental research, cognitive models, and real-world applications. Students will gain an understanding of foundational theories, contemporary developments, and methodologies used to investigate the workings of the human mind, preparing them to analyze and interpret cognitive phenomena in various settings.
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Psychological Science 3rd Canadian Edition by Michael Gazzaniga
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) The fMRI study by Phelps and Banaji demonstrated that psychological scientists can:
A) change racial attitudes
B) know the cause of racial prejudice
C) measure the amount of racism relative to prejudice
D) see inside the brain with regard to the perceptions of race
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following was most important in the rise of the cognitive approach in psychology?
A) the identification of the unconscious
B) the understanding of the effects of reward and punishment on behaviour and thinking
C) the emergence of computers
D) the ability to identify different kinds of neurons
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Research Methodology
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Q1) Dr. Bloomin wants to investigate the impact of talking to plants on their growth. He decides to talk to a group of 40 tulips each day for six weeks. A second group is not talked to at all. After six weeks he discovers that the tulips he talked to are five centimetres taller than the tulips not talked to. In this example, the independent variable is:
A) the group of tulips spoken to B) whether the tulips are spoken to
C) the height of the tulips
D) the group of tulips not spoken to
Answer: B
Q2) A specific prediction of behaviour that is tested in an experiment is called a: A) theory B) hypothesis
C) sample
D) naturalistic observation
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Why do monozygotic twins have different phenotypes?
A) They have different genotypes.
B) They have non-shared environments.
C) They have the same environments but different genes.
D) They have only minor phenotypic variation across a few physical traits but not differences in psychological traits.
Answer: B
Q2) Anah is studying the similarity of monozygotic versus dizygotic twins, examining characteristics ranging from criminality to math aptitude to introversion. It is likely that she is working in the field of:
A) child development
B) psychometrics
C) behavioural genetics
D) genometrics
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Mind and Consciousness
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Q1) Dreams occurring during REM sleep are ____________; while dreams occurring during non-REM sleep are ____________.
A) dull and mundane; bizarre and highly emotional
B) bizarre and highly emotional; dull and mundane
C) likely to include visual hallucinations and illogical content; likely to include auditory hallucinations
D) likely to include auditory hallucinations and loss of time and space; likely to include visual hallucinations and illogical content.
Q2) Why are humans typically able to remain in the bed during sleep?
A) Your brain signals the body to become paralyzed during the night so you don't move off the bed.
B) The brain is still processing information about its surroundings, thus you are aware of the boundaries of the bed.
C) You are consciously aware of the bed's boundaries at all times during sleep.
D) Most people typically fall out of bed, but because they are unaware of it they don't report it.
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Avi broke his ankle skiing. At first, he felt a sharp and intense pain. The next day, the sharp pain was gone, but his ankle throbbed almost all of the time. The sharp immediate pain was due to ____________; the later throbbing pain was due to
A) nonmyelinated axons; myelinated axons
B) myelinated axons; nonmyelinated axons
C) pain receptors; pressure receptors
D) pressure receptors; pain receptors
Q2) As you watch the rectangle of a paper flag being turned around its pole, you always see the shape of the flag as being rectangular. Yet the image of the flag changes shape at the retina as it rotates. Why do you not see the shape as changing?
A) the brain interprets the retinal input in terms of a prototype of a rectangle
B) the brain adjusts the retinal shape for orientation to yield perceived shape
C) the brain uses a familiar shape/retinal shape ratio
D) a and c
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) The school of behaviourism was based on the belief that:
A) anything can be learned by any living organism
B) animals and humans are born with the potential to learn just about anything
C) behaviour is conditioned, unlike cognitions of the mind
D) animals learn via behaviourism, humans learn via cognitivism
Q2) Aldo cannot get the answer to a chemistry problem, even after sitting at his desk for an hour. He gets up and goes for a walk. Suddenly, the answer comes to him, even though he appears to have stopped thinking about it for a while. This phenomenon is called:
A) insight learning
B) latent learning
C) cognitive map learning
D) economic principled learning
Q3) Which of the following is most closely associated with B. F. Skinner?
A) introspection
B) modern neuroscience
C) behaviour modification
D) understanding the development of phobias
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Chapter 7: Attention and Memory
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Q1) While you are at the movies, the person sitting next to you coughs so loudly that you cannot hear part of an actor's line. However, your perception is that you have heard the entire sentence, including the part masked by the cough. This is possible because of:
A) auditory encoding
B) the phonological loop
C) echoic memory
D) auditory rehearsal
Q2) Raakee was walking home late at night. She was terrified because she thought she heard someone following her. Raakee realized later that she could remember exactly what the street looked like when she thought she heard the footsteps. This experience highlights the role of the ____________ in ____________.
A) amygdala; processing fear and danger
B) frontal lobe; processing fear and danger
C) amygdala; tagging the event for the future
D) frontal lobe; tagging the event for the future
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Sun is a wonderful history student. According to Spearman's theory, her skills at science should be ____________; according to Gardner's theory, her skills at science should be ____________.
A) high; unrelated
B) low; high
C) high; high
D) unrelated; high
Q2) Chiamaka has curly black hair, dark skin, and is an excellent musician. Kara has straight red hair, white skin, and is great at basketball. Approximately what percentage of their genetic code would be the same?
A) 10 percent
B) 49 percent
C) 99 percent
D) 55 percent
Q3) Research on cognition-enhancing drugs has been largely driven by research on:
A) increasing exam performance among university students
B) treatment of attention deficit disorder
C) treatment of Alzheimer's disease
D) ways to boost a person's IQ
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) The purpose of homeostatic behaviours is to:
A) generate a drive to satisfy a need
B) stabilize conditions in the body
C) create a state of arousal
D) a and c
Q2) Some people are generally happy and optimistic; other people are generally sad and pessimistic. One possible explanation for these general dispositions on life might be that optimistic people ____________ and pessimistic people ____________.
A) show cerebral symmetry; show cerebral asymmetry
B) show cerebral asymmetry; show cerebral symmetry
C) are left hemisphere dominant; are right hemisphere dominant
D) are right hemisphere dominant; are left hemisphere dominant
Q3) Motivation ____________, while emotion ____________.
A) produces behaviour; influences motivation
B) influences emotion; produces behaviour
C) is caused by cognition; influences cognition
D) influences cognition; is caused by cognition
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Emotional coping strategies:
A) work better over the short term than the long term
B) are usually better than problem-focused strategies in a variety of situations
C) work best in the face of a controllable stressor
D) are counterproductive in most situations
Q2) Your roommate, who is very overweight, has an identical twin whom you have never met and who lived with an adoptive family while growing up. Given what you know about genetic and environmental factors in weight status, you would:
A) be unclear about the weight status of the twin
B) guess that the twin had a similar weight status to his adoptive family members
C) ask for more information on the attitudes of the adoptive parents toward being overweight
D) guess that the twin is likely to be overweight
Q3) Feeling hostile and impatient is characteristic of people who may later develop:
A) major depressive disorder
B) heart disease
C) an immune disorder
D) an eating disorder
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Chapter 11: Human Development
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Q1) Which is likely to be the most critical period of fetal development and why?
A) zygote, because most of the internal organs are formed during this period
B) embryo, because most of the internal organs are formed during this period
C) fetus, because most of the internal organs are formed during this period
D) infant, because the baby is finally viable
Q2) The term embryo describes the stage of development:
A) from conception to approximately 2 weeks postconception
B) from approximately 2 weeks postconception to approximately 2 months
C) from approximately 2 months to birth
D) during the last trimester
Q3) The results of Harlow's research with infant monkeys:
A) supported Freud's notions of human development
B) supported behavioural theories of development
C) challenged both Freudian and behavioural theories of development
D) undermined the notion of sensitive periods during development
Q4) Confabulation occurs when young children:
A) deliberately lie
B) recall an event with made up memories as well as accurate memories
C) use their imagination rather than recalling the actual event
D) cannot remember where they learned something
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Chapter 12: Social Psychology
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Q1) In Milgram's obedience studies, about ____________ of the participants administered maximum shock and ____________ of them tried to quit the study.
A) 66 percent; almost all
B) 50 percent; almost all
C) 25 percent; 50 percent
D) 15 percent; 50 percent
Q2) Hazen and Shaver concluded that the pattern of attachment that a child had to his parents predicts important aspects of the relationships that child will have with adults. A major problem with this interpretation is that:
A) the concept of attachment is poorly defined
B) the data is strictly correlational
C) the categories of adult relationships are too broad
D) the findings rely on childhood memories
Q3) If people are randomly assigned to groups A and B, you could predict that the members of each group will:
A) favour members of their own group because of ingroup bias
B) not favour members of their own group because of random assignment
C) not be hostile to members of the other group because of random assignment
D) neither favour members of their own group nor the other group
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Chapter 13: Personality
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Q1) Over time, how do the personalities of identical twins change?
A) The similarity between the twins remains constant.
B) They become more different from one another as they experience different environments.
C) They become more similar to one another.
D) They become less similar once they escape the direct influence of their parents.
Q2) Psychologists would label a disposition to act in a certain way over time and various situations:
A) an unconscious process
B) a genetic disposition
C) a personality trait
D) a normative behaviour
Q3) Which of the following constructs is most clearly related to social evaluation?
A) self-schema
B) self-esteem
C) self-concept
D) self-knowledge
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Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) Wakako is from Japan; Anna is from Germany. Both have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Wakako is more likely to experience ____________; Anna is more likely to experience ____________.
A) hallucinations; delusions
B) delusions; hallucinations
C) delusions of harassment; delusions regarding guilt and sin
D) delusions regarding guilt and sin; delusions of harassment
Q2) Your textbook describes the case of Tony Rosato, a former SCTV and Saturday Night Live star who had a disorder called Capgras syndrome. Capgras syndrome is most closely associated with:
A) drug or alcohol abuse
B) schizophrenia or brain damage
C) traumatic events experience during childhood
D) neglectful or abusive parenting
Q3) Longitudinal brain imaging studies indicate that in people with schizophrenia:
A) brain ventricles become smaller over time
B) the frontal and temporal lobes show a dramatic increase in activity
C) the amount of overall brain tissue is reduced
D) both the amygdala and hippocampus become almost inactive
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Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
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Q1) In Canada, suicide among adolescents is the ____________ leading cause of death for that age group, suggesting that treatment with____________, while controversial, still shows more benefits than risks.
A) second; exposure therapy
B) second; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
C) third; exposure therapy
D) third; selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Q2) Deepa is excessively shy in public and finds it almost impossible to talk to people she does not know. People think she is aloof, but actually she is terribly afraid that people will criticize her, and so she dislikes and avoids interacting with others. If she chose to go into psychotherapy to overcome this problem, the therapist who would seem least threatening to her would be:
A) a client-centred therapist
B) a psychoanalyst
C) a rational-emotive therapist
D) an applied behaviour analyst
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Chapter 16: Cultural Psychology
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Q1) People from Japan prefer:
A) secondary control experiences
B) situational control experiences
C) attributional style experiences
D) primary control experiences
Q2) Rule-based reasoning is to ____________ as associative reasoning is to
A) holistic thinking; analytic thinking
B) analytic thinking; holistic thinking
C) empiricism; theory
D) theory; empiricism
Q3) Humans are different than other animals in that they can:
A) use distinctive sounds
B) imitate
C) improvise
D) all of the above
Q4) The course of schizophrenia is significantly better for patients living in:
A) a collectivistic rather than individualistic society
B) less developed societies rather than more industrialized ones
C) an individualistic rather than a collectivistic society
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