Course Introduction
Experimental Psychology
Midterm Exam
Experimental Psychology is a foundational course that explores the scientific methods and principles used to investigate human thought, behavior, and emotion. Students will learn how to design, conduct, and analyze psychological experiments, gaining hands-on experience with experimental techniques and statistical analysis. The course covers topics such as hypothesis formulation, variable control, data collection, interpretation of results, and ethical considerations in psychological research. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking skills, proper research methodology, and the application of empirical findings to real-world psychological questions.
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Cognition 6th Edition by Mark H. Ashcraft
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Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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Q1) Wundt believed strongly that the proper topic for psychology was "conscious processes and immediate experience."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Most associated with the method of savings is __________.
A)Hermann von Ebbinghaus
B)William James
C)Wilhelm Wundt
D)B.F.Skinner
Answer: A
Q3) The sentence "I do not have to attend to what the cat will eat tomorrow" includes ten occurrences of the letter T.The Radvansky and Ashcraft text argues that people's difficulties in finding all of the Ts reflects __________.
A)channel capacity
B)a failure to read the textbook
C)top-down processing
D)connectionist modeling
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
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Q1) Which neuroimaging technique uses electrical activity to measure neural activity?
A)CT scan
B)MRI scan
C)ERP recordings
D)special populations
Answer: C
Q2) What is an emergent property?
A)an activity that occurs only when it is allowed to emerge
B)a newly developing skill
C)a property that emerges when several smaller units work together
D)a newly developing feature
Answer: C
Q3) What is a way to study how different brain structures influence cognition without studying people with lesions or other kinds of brain damage?
A)narcotics
B)stimulants
C)psychotropics
D)special populations
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following is a Gestalt grouping principle that describes that idea that objects that share a common texture could be grouped together?
A)good continuation
B)similarity
C)proximity
D)closure
Answer: B
Q2) Another name for visual sensory memory is __________.
A)iconic memory
B)echoic memory
C)trans-saccadic memory
D)perception
Answer: A
Q3) Prosopagnosia is __________.
A)a disruption in the ability to recognize faces
B)a problem remembering the names of objects
C)a disruption in the ability to recognize objects
D)a problem remembering the names of people
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) A different audio message is played to each ear.The task is to repeat back the message as soon as it is heard (e.g.,Cherry,1954; Lindsay & Norman,1977).This task is most commonly called __________.
A)masking
B)priming
C)shadowing
D)repetition blindness
Q2) Another way of describing Treisman's attenuation theory is:
A)early selection
B)middle selection
C)late selection
D)multimode model
Q3) When talking about attention,the role of inhibition is to __________.
A)reduce the influence of salient but irrelevant information
B)help people forget bad events
C)reduce the amount of attention available
D)slow thinking down so that it is more precise
Q4) Describe two pieces of evidence against "early selection."
Q5) The decline in response time when a previously ignored distractor becomes a target is called ___________.
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Chapter 5: Short-Term Working Memory
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Q1) Under what circumstances do people with smaller working memory spans outperform people with larger working memory spans?
A)in finding simpler solutions to problems,rather than persisting with more complex solutions
B)in the size of their Stroop effects
C)in the ability to divide their attention across a broad range of tasks
D)in just about every way possible
Q2) Which is NOT a criticism of Sternberg's conclusions about memory search?
A)Processes may cascade.
B)Processes may slow down if performed in parallel.
C)With practice,automaticity develops and may free up otherwise required resources.
D)The difference measure should only measure the process of interest,but it is virtually impossible to devise two tasks that differ on the presence or absence of only one process (thus there is no appropriate comparison).
Q3) Primary memory is the first memory system encountered as information enters the system.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering
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Q1) Recall tasks often underestimate the amount of information that was learned.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Another name for the von Restorff effect is __________.
A)the memory effect
B)the forgetting effect
C)chunking
D)the isolation effect
Q3) Maintenance rehearsal __________.
A)is low-level,repetitive kind of rehearsal
B)is higher recall for later list items
C)is higher recall for earlier list items
D)measures working memory span
Q4) Which of the following is a critical failure of the depth of processing account?
A)defining levels independently of retention
B)elaborative rehearsal
C)subtractive method
D)mnemonic encoding
Q5) Knowledge about one's own memory,how it works,and how it fails to work is
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Chapter 7: Knowing
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Q1) The kind of memory that is thought to be largely similar across different people is
A)paralinguistic
B)episodic
C)semantic
D)direct
Q2) Abstract words activate right and left hemisphere processing equally.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In semantic categories,the degree to which items are viewed as typical,central members of a category; the central tendency of a category: __________.
A)semantic activation
B)typicality
C)inheritance
D)priming
Q4) Embodied cognitive processes play no role in semantic memory.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe (define)the dissociation referred to as a category-specific deficit.
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Chapter 8: Using Knowledge in the Real World
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Q1) False memories are more likely to be created if a person tries to form a mental image in their mind to help them remember.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is one practical consequence of people having more accurate memories at the situation model level than the propositional textbase level?
Q3) The smallest unit of knowledge that can stand as an assertion is a __________.
A)phoneme
B)proposition
C)morpheme
D)mnemonic
Q4) The fact that people can give feeling of knowing judgments that are high and accurate suggests that __________.
A)no one is immune to error
B)metamemory is debunked
C)relearning can occur
D)forgetting can be temporary
Q5) What are some of the arguments for why there is better memory for events in the reminiscence bump?
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Chapter 9: Language
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Q1) Language is a ____________ system.
A)symbolic
B)communication
C)shared
D)all of the above
Q2) The smallest meaningful unit of language is called a ____________.
Q3) George Miller suggested the idea of linguistic relativity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) With sufficient exposure,the ERPs to nonsense words look like ERPs to meaningful words.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Language is __________.
A)uniquely human
B)found in any form of communication
C)a rudimentary form of thought
D)only valid if it is spoken
Q6) Identify two weaknesses of the transformational grammar approach.
Q7) What is the mental lexicon?
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Chapter 10: Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language
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Q1) "In the mind of the speaker"
A)enhancement
B)inference
C)processing fluency
D)implication
Q2) An eye tracker can be used in language comprehension research to __________.
A)reduce reading speed
B)give faster memory tests
C)know when a person is done reading
D)monitor understanding
Q3) An inference that is intended by a speaker or writer is called __________.
A)authorized
B)explicit
C)necessary
D)bridging
Q4) Connections between concepts drawn by readers is __________.
A)inference
B)implication
C)reference
D)simple reference
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Chapter 11: Decisions, Judgments, and Reasoning
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Q1) A syllogism is __________.
A)a logical truth
B)only applicable to abstract problems
C)a three-statement logical form
D)an ancient,but flawed system
Q2) A heuristic is to __________ as an algorithm is to __________.
A)correct; incorrect
B)incorrect; correct
C)likelihood; certainty
D)certainty; likelihood
Q3) Which is NOT true of judgments of number magnitude?
A)The larger the difference between the digits,the faster the judgments are made.
B)Just as in psychophysics,the psychological difference is a direct function of physical difference.
C)Judgment time is affected by semantic congruity.
D)When people make mental comparisons and judgments of purely symbolic quantities,there is a pronounced semantic distance effect.
Q4) What is the SNARC effect?
Q5) What is the difference between an algorithm and a heuristic?
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) Neuroimaging work suggests that,surprisingly,the frontal lobes are not involved in insight problem solving.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Identify seven suggestions for improving problem solving (of the ten presented by Radvansky & Ashcraft in the course text).
Q3) Working backwards entails __________.
A)the careful documentation of a well-specified goal or end-state
B)establishing a representation of the full problem space
C)tracing the solution pathway in reverse order
D)establishing subgoal states that allow recycling
Q4) Recursively getting closer and closer from the current state towards the solution state is __________.
A)means-end analysis
B)general problem solver (GPS)
C)anticipating outcomes
D)working backwards
Q5) A problem that has clear initial and end states is called _______________
Q6) The name of the first problem-solving program was___________.
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Chapter 13: Cognition and Emotion
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Q1) What help can emotion be to human cognition?
Q2) According to the Easterbrook hypothesis,we have poorer overall memory at high levels of emotional intensity because __________.
A)the neurological system is overwhelmed with all of the extra processing
B)we can no longer effectively direct our attention to important things
C)attention is focused on the central aspects of an event at the expense of peripheral aspects
D)the amygdala takes over and shuts down processing in the hippocampus
Q3) In order for a flashbulb memory to be created,you need __________.
A)the event to be surprising
B)to experience the event as important
C)to have an emotional response
D)all of the above
Q4) When emotional items,such as words,are encountered,what does the do to brain activity?
A)It can suppress it.
B)It can increase it.
C)There is an increase in lateralized processing.
D)There is a decrease in lateralized processing.
Q5) What is an advantage of perception being distorted for emotional stimuli?
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Chapter 14: Cognitive Development
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Q1) The loss of hair cells in the cochlea that accompanies aging is called __________.
Q2) Older adults are more likely to focus on emotionally positive than emotionally negative information.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Piaget,when is a child in the formal operations stage?
A)birth to age two
B)ages two to seven
C)ages seven to eleven
D)age eleven and up
Q4) Compared to younger adults,older adults show larger __________ effects.
A)context
B)priming
C)creativity
D)fan
Q5) Older adults' declines in episodic memory do not appear to affect their creation and use of flashbulb memories.
A)True
B)False
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