Perception and Attention Question Bank
Course Introduction
Perception and Attention explores the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying how humans interpret sensory information and selectively focus on specific stimuli in their environment. The course covers foundational theories and current research on sensory processing, perceptual organization, attentional selection, and the interaction between perception and attention. Students will examine topics such as visual and auditory perception, attentional networks in the brain, the impact of expectations and context, and disorders affecting perceptual and attentional systems. Through experimental evidence and real-world applications, learners gain insight into how perception and attention shape our daily experiences and influence behavior.
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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) In Donders's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press a button upon presentation of a light, they were engaged in a A) sensory memory task.
B) simple reaction time task.
C) choice reaction time task.
D) classical conditioning task.
Answer: B
Q2) The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called A) cognitive psychology.
B) introspection.
C) behaviorism.
D) memory consolidation.
Answer: A
Q3) John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of A) observable behavior.
B) mental processes.
C) consciousness.
D) attention.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Determining the sequence of DNA in humans was a major scientific advance that opened the door to new ideas about illness and approaches to treatment. An individual's unique DNA sequence is similar to which of the following?
A) Salience
B) Voxel
C) Connectome
D) Aphasia
Answer: C
Q2) Brain imaging has made it possible to
A) determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes.
B) view individual neurons in the brain.
C) show how environmental energy is transformed into neural energy.
D) view propagation of action potentials.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) When does bottom-up processing start?
A) When environmental energy stimulates the receptors
B) When an electrical signal is passed to the brain
C) When motor neurons at the extremities are activated
D) When the brain encodes information received by the receptors
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an example of a physical regularity in your text?
A) The oblique effect
B) The light-from-above assumption
C) Angled orientation
D) Having one object that is partially covered by another "come out the other side"
Answer: C
Q3) The existence of transitional probabilities adds a(n) ________ quality to learning and using language.
A) cultural
B) anticipatory
C) reductive
D) intellectual
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) The use of a machine that tracks the movement of one's eyes can help reveal the shifting of one's __________ attention.
A) overt
B) covert
C) divided
D) dichotic
Q2) Saccadic eye movement is a ______________.
A) rapid, jerky movement from one fixation to the next
B) shifting of attention from one place to another by moving the eyes
C) reaction to physical properties of stimulus
D) brief pause on another person's face
Q3) 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
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Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they A) do not require attention.
B) may differ from one task to another.
C) are performed without conscious awareness.
D) are difficult to modify.
Q2) Brief sensory memory for sound is known as
A) iconic memory.
B) primary auditory memory.
C) echoic memory.
D) pre-perceptual auditory memory.
Q3) If the brain can be considered a busy factory that takes in and processes information, which of the following would occur during the synaptic state in Stokes's working memory concept?
A) The factory machines would consume electricity.
B) The factory machines would produce electricity.
C) Machines would shut down for material resupply.
D) An alarm would sound signaling system overload.
Q4) Compare and contrast the concepts of short-term memory and working memory. How do the models of each concept differ and why?
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
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Q1) Describe the concept of semanticization of remote memories. Give examples across time to support your thinking.
Q2) One of the defining characteristics of implicit memory is that
A) it always leads to episodic memory for events.
B) it is enhanced by the self-reference effect.
C) people are not conscious they are using it.
D) people use it strategically to enhance memory for events.
Q3) The coding of a stimulus into memory refers to which of the following?
A) Consciousness
B) Location
C) Process
D) Form
Q4) According to your text, which of the following movies is LEAST accurate in its portrayal of a memory problem?
A) The Bourne Identity
B) Memento
C) The Long Kiss Goodnight
D) 50 First Dates
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Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
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Q1) Which statement below is most closely associated with levels of processing theory?
A) Information enters memory by passing through a number of levels, beginning with sensory memory, then short-term memory, then long-term memory.
B) Events that are repeated enough can influence our behavior, even after we have forgotten the original events.
C) Deep processing involves paying closer attention to a stimulus than shallow processing and results in better processing.
D) People who were sad when they studied did better when they were sad during testing.
Q2) Mantyla's "banana/yellow, bunches, edible" experiment employed three conditions, which yielded quite different results. Describe the three conditions as well as the results of each. What do these results predict about students studying from their own notebooks versus studying from notes borrowed from a classmate?
Q3) Explain the concepts of encoding specificity, state-dependent learning, and transfer-appropriate processing. Give an example of each to support your thinking.
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Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) Bartlett's experiment in which English participants were asked to recall the "War of the Ghosts" story that was taken from the French Indian culture illustrated the
A) misinformation effect.
B) familiarity effect.
C) constructive nature of memory.
D) reminiscence bump.
Q2) 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
Q3) Define the illusory truth effect. What are some potential dangers or risks associated with this phenomenon? Give an example to support your thinking.
Q4) Explain why a flashbulb memory is both special and ordinary. Provide an example of a flashbulb memory from your own experience to support your thinking.
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Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
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Q1) The four proposals addressing the representation of concepts in the brain all agree that the information is ________.
A) subordinate
B) graded
C) distributed
D) fragile
Q2) An advantage of the exemplar approach over the prototype approach is that the exemplar approach provides a better explanation of the ___________ effect.
A) resemblance
B) typicality
C) priming
D) reaction time
Q3) Explain what is meant by the statement: The concept "cat" is the answer to the question "What is a cat?"
Q4) Which of the following represents a basic level item?
A) Musical instrument
B) Guitar
C) Rock guitar
D) Paul McCartney's bass guitar
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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) A spatial imagery test measures a person's capacity with imaging which of the following?
A) Texture
B) Distance
C) Layout
D) Detail
Q2) Paivio (1963) proposed the conceptual peg hypothesis. His work suggests which of the following would be most difficult to remember?
A) Baseball
B) America
C) Apple pie
D) Freedom
Q3) Your text describes the case of M.G.S. who underwent brain surgery as treatment for severe epilepsy. Testing of M.G.S. pre- and post-surgery revealed that the right visual cortex is involved in the
A) size of the field of view.
B) recognition of objects in the left side of space.
C) ability to visually recognize objects.
D) ability to draw objects from memory.
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Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) Explain how language and music are both similar and different.
Q2) In the lexical decision task, participants are asked to A) separate a sentence into individual words.
B) decide which meaning of an ambiguous sentence is correct in a specific situation.
C) identify words that are contained in sentences.
D) decide whether a string of letters is a word or a nonword.
Q3) Which of the following is the best example of a garden path sentence?
A) Before the police stopped, the Toyota disappeared into the night.
B) The man was not surprised when he found several spiders, roaches, and other bugs in the room.
C) The cats won't bake.
D) The Eskimos were frightened by the walrus.
Q4) Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?
A) Hierarchical structure
B) Communication
C) Governed by rules
D) It involves arrangement of a sequence of symbols
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) ________ occurs when a person gives up trying to solve a tough problem and then suddenly comes up with the answer while doing something else.
A) Mindfulness
B) Insight
C) Incubation
D) Daydreaming
Q2) The ability to shift experience from one problem-solving situation to a similar problem is known as
A) analogical encoding.
B) analogical transfer.
C) insight.
D) in vivo problem solving.
Q3) Illustrative of functional fixedness, people are more likely to solve the candle problem if
A) fewer tacks are provided.
B) pliers are also presented.
C) the box is empty.
D) the candle is already lit.
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Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
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Q1) If you are given the information that in order to vote in a presidential election, you must be at least 18 years of age, and that Will voted in the last presidential election, you can logically conclude that Will is at least 18 years old. This is an example of using _________________ reasoning.
A) inductive
B) deductive
C) conjunctive
D) descriptive
Q2) When the "abstract" version of the Wason four-card problem is compared to a "concrete" version of the problem (in which beer, soda, and ages are substituted for the letters and numbers),
A) performance is better for the concrete task.
B) performance is better for the abstract task.
C) performance is the same for both tasks.
D) performing the abstract task improves performance of the concrete task.
Q3) Compare and contrast myside bias and confirmation bias. Give an example of each concept to support your thinking.
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