Experimental Psychology Exam
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Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology explores the scientific methods and principles underlying psychological research. This course introduces students to experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation in studying human behavior and mental processes. Key topics include hypothesis formulation, variable control, ethical considerations, and the application of statistical techniques. Through hands-on laboratory exercises and critical evaluation of research literature, students gain practical experience in conducting psychological experiments and develop a deeper understanding of how empirical evidence informs theories of cognition, perception, learning, memory, and social behavior.
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Cognitive Psychology Theory Process and Methodology 1st Edition by Dawn M. McBride
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) John went to the bank, where he encountered a very rude, grumpy bank teller. Rather than getting angry and being rude back, John was polite through the encounter while thinking, "This person must be going through a difficult time for them to be so rude, so I shouldn't take it personally." This best illustrates _____.
A) determinism
B) testability
C) respect
D) parsimony
Answer: A
Q2) Distinguish between correlational designs and experimental designs. Answer: A correct answer should detail that correlational designs measure associations between variables, while they do not indicate cause and effect. Experimental designs indicate causal inference, and are used to determine if one variable causes an effect in another.
Q3) Modern day psychologists accept the study of both behavior and cognition.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Conducting a case study on a patient with damage to their frontal lobe has the potential to reveal a great deal of information about our brain's role in vision.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Broca's area is located in the _____, while Wernicke's area is located in the _____.
A) left temporal lobe; left frontal lobe
B) right temporal lobe; right frontal lobe
C) left frontal lobe; left temporal lobe
D) right frontal lobe; right temporal lobe
Answer: C
Q3) Damage to the frontal lobe would likely cause deficits in _____.
A) reasoning
B) vision
C) sensation
D) speech comprehension
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) Which scenario is an example of sensing, but not perceiving a stimulus?
A) The music playing in the background while you are studying
B) The argument you are having with your significant other while cooking dinner
C) The music you are singing along to while talking to a friend online
D) The painting you are working on while talking to your mother
Answer: A
Q2) The dorsal pathway of the brain processes "where" information about the environment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) If you were to hold a pen in each hand, with one[ok or at?] 5 inches from your face and the other at arm's length, the one closer to your face will look larger, even though they are the same size. This is based on cues from _____.
A) The retinal image
B) Brain function
C) Top-down processing
D) A linear perspective
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) Discuss Kahneman's (1973) capacity model of attention and give one example.
Q2) Not noticing that your mother changed the curtains in your family room is an example of change blindness.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the societal and legislative impact of Strayer & Johnston's study (2001) on the cognition of distracted driving.
Q4) Zaretskaya et al. (2013) found activity in the _____ during a task involving a global percept.
A) Right parietal cortex
B) Left parietal cortex
C) Right temporal cortex
D) Visual cortex
Q5) According to Treisman's dictionary unit, the lower the threshold of information, _____.
A) The more likely you are to become confused
B) The less likely the information is attended to
C) The more likely the information is attended to
D) The less likely you are to understand the meaning
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Chapter 5: Memory Structures and Processes
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Q1) Proactive interference is when new information interferes with the storage or retrieval of old information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You are participating in a study in which you are presented with an array of letters. However, you are only asked to report the top line of 5 rows (much like an eye exam).
This best illustrates _____.
A) A full-report method
B) A delayed-report method
C) A varied-report method
D) A partial-report method
Q3) Discuss three[or the?] types of long-term memories, and give an example of each.
Q4) _____ memory is unconscious memory.
A) Explicit
B) Implicit
C) Sensory
D) Long-term memory
Q5) The briefest form of memory is short-term memory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Influences on Retrieval
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Q1) In _____, both encoding and retrieval together influence memory performance.
A) Depth-of-processing effects
B) Environmental-dependent effects
C) Mood-dependent effects
D) Transfer-appropriate processing
Q2) The primacy effect depends on _____ as the recency effect depends on _____.
A) Working memory; long-term memory
B) Short-term memory; working memory
C) Working memory; short-term memory
D) Long-term memory; short-term memory
Q3) Jason conducts an experiment in which his participants are asked to study a list of 30 words. He finds that participants tend to recall the beginning of the list rather than the middle or end of the list. Which effect is he NOT showing support for?
A) recency
B) primacy
C) termination
D) initiation
Q4) Discuss the "Levels of Processing" theory of memory storage and retrieval. Provide and explain several examples.
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Chapter 7: Memory Errors
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Q1) The only people susceptible to memory errors are elderly people with varying diagnoses of dementia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The DRM procedure was adapted from the earlier methodology of Roediger.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Loftus and Palmer's study, participants were more likely to report seeing broken glass when they were presented with what word?
A) smashed
B) crashed
C) hit
D) collided
Q4) Having a song stuck in your head all day is an example of _____.
A) an irritant
B) transience
C) persistence
D) transience.
Q5) List Daniel Schacter's seven sins of memory, and give an example of each.
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Chapter 8: Imagery
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Q1) Stacy thinks if athletes mentally imagine themselves practicing their basketball free throws, they will get better at it in real life. This supports the _____.
A) Concreteness effect
B) Bizarreness effect
C) Visual imagery theory
D) Motor imagery theory
Q2) The _____ is a memory aid where images of to-be-remembered information are created with locations along a familiar route or place.
A) Pegword mnemonic
B) Method of loci
C) Bizarreness effect
D) The picture superiority effect
Q3) In the _____, words that rhyme with numbers are used as place holders in an ordered list.
A) Pegword mnemonic
B) Method of loci
C) The concreteness effect
D) The bizarreness effect
Q4) Discuss a way that you could test the role of imagery in motor performance.
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Chapter 9: Language
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Q1) People who cannot comprehend language as a result of a brain injury are likely to have damage to the left inferior frontal lobe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All languages are created from the same set of phonemes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following does NOT affect word recognition?
A) properties of the word
B) context
C) meaning
D) when you learned them
Q4) When you are having a conversation with someone, you often do not stop between words to emphasize that you are saying distinct words. This is known as _____.
A) specialization
B) coarticulation
C) functionalism
D) lateralization
Q5) List, define, and give examples for each type of speech error.
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Chapter 10: Concepts and Knowledge
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Q1) The _____ of a category is a weighted average of the important features of its members.
A) Prototype
B) Average member
C) Typical member
D) Exemplar
Q2) Shortcomings of the definition approach to concepts include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) The absence of clear, necessary and sufficient features
B) No clear categorical boundaries
C) Typicality effects for category and non-category members
D) Concepts thought of as definitions with lists of necessary and sufficient properties
Q3) The _____ typical of a concept an object is, the _____ members of that concept will be recalled.
A) less; more
B) more; fewer
C) less; fewer
D) more; less
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Chapter 11: Problem Solving
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Q1) What brain area seems to play a large role in problem-solving?
A) Temporal lobe
B) Frontal lobe
C) Parietal lobe
D) Occipital lobe
Q2) Our ability to solve problems is constrained by our cognitive systems.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Gick and Holyoak's (1980) story involving a general and his army as compared to a surgeon and his patient with an inoperable tumor is an example of _____.
A) Analogical transfer
B) Functional fixedness
C) A mental set
D) Selective encoding
Q4) A Sudoku puzzle is an example of a(n) _____.
A) ill-defined problem
B) well-defined problem
C) undefined problem
D) defined problem
Q5) Define functional fixedness, and provide three examples.
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Chapter 12: Reasoning and Decision Making
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Q1) _____ are those that are either true or False.
A) Syllogisms
B) Relevant statements
C) Propositional statements
D) Conditional statements
Q2) Imagine that you are driving, and the car a few feet ahead of you gets into an accident. You think, "What if I had left a few seconds earlier; that could've been me!" This is an example of _____.
A) Counterfactual thinking
B) Hypothesis testing
C) Verification
D) Causal reasoning
Q3) _____ focus on how we represent arguments.
A) Synaptic approaches
B) Surface approaches
C) Conclusion interpretation approaches
D) Representation-explanation approaches
Q4) Compare and contrast syllogistic and conditional reasoning. Give an example of each.
Q5) Compare and contrast deductive vs. inductive reasoning.
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