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Course Introduction
The Psychology of Learning course explores the fundamental principles and theories that underpin how humans acquire, process, and retain knowledge and skills. Students will examine major learning frameworks, including behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, and analyze how factors such as motivation, environment, development, and individual differences influence learning outcomes. The course also covers contemporary research findings related to memory, conditioning, observational learning, and the application of learning theories to educational settings, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of the processes that shape human learning.
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Cognition Exploring the Science of the Mind 7th Edition by Daniel Reisberg
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Chapter 1: The Science of the Mind
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Q1) The process of taking observable information and inferring a cause is known as A)mentalistic inference.
B)the transcendental method.
C)cause and effect.
D)introspection.
Answer: B
Q2) Which technique was commonly used in Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory?
A)introspection
B)physiological analysis
C)operant conditioning
D)classical conditioning
Answer: A
Q3) Behaviorists study organisms'
A)expectations.
B)desires and motivations.
C)dreams.
D)responses.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Neural Basis for Cognition
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a primary function of glial cells?
A)provide support for neurons
B)facilitate the development of the nervous system
C)release neurotransmitters
D)clean up waste
Answer: C
Q2) Neuroimaging techniques such as PET suggest a link between Capgras syndrome and abnormalities in each of the following brain regions EXCEPT the A)prefrontal cortex.
B)amygdala.
C)temporal lobe.
D)fusiform face area.
Answer: D
Q3) Compared to computerized axial tomography (CT scans),electroencephalogram (EEG)
A)detects changes in blood flow.
B)has greater ability to detect brain lesions.
C)offers a moment-by-moment recording of brain activity.
D)assists in understanding how anatomical structures function.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Visual Perception
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Q1) Krista is sitting on a bench,watching the world go by.She notices that the people who are near to her move across her retina more quickly than the cars in the distance move.This effect is called
A)optic flow.
B)motion parallax.
C)linear perspective.
D)continuation.
Answer: B
Q2) Lateral inhibition leads to which perceptual experience?
A)The middle of an object is emphasized.
B)The edge of an object is enhanced.
C)Edges of objects tend to fade into the background.
D)Colors appear brighter next to a textured background.
Answer: B
Q3) The primary visual cortex is located
A)immediately behind one's eyeballs.
B)in the middle of the brain,near the thalamus.
C)at the part of the cortex that is farthest from the eyes.
D)in the parietal lobe.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Recognizing Objects
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Q1) Argue for or against the notion that "face processing is distinct from other forms of object recognition." Support your perspective by referencing behavioral or neuropsychological evidence.
Q2) What sort of processing is driven primarily by factors in the environment or in the stimulus?
A)top-down
B)bottom-up
C)expectation-based
D)knowledge-driven
Q3) The bigram layer of a feature net is
A)rigid,so that once it is created it can never be adjusted or modified.
B)something with which we are born.
C)the same for every language.
D)developed with experience.
Q4) Facial recognition depends on the configuration and spacing of the features,which reflects ________ processing.
A)bottom-up
B)holistic
C)expectation-based
D)distributed
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Chapter 5: Paying Attention
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Q1) Priming based on specific expectations about the identity of the upcoming stimulus produces
A)no benefit for processing if the expectations are correct but slows processing if the expectations are incorrect.
B)a benefit for processing if the expectations are correct but slows processing if the expectations are incorrect.
C)a benefit for processing if the expectations are correct but has no effect on processing if the expectations are incorrect.
D)the same benefit as stimulus-based repetition priming.
Q2) Describe the Posner and Snyder (1975)experiment.What does it tell us about the role that priming plays in attention? What are the costs and benefits of such priming?
Q3) The frontal lobe has many functions.Which of the following is LEAST strongly associated with the frontal lobe?
A)orienting
B)alerting
C)executive control
D)shape processing
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Chapter 6: The Acquisition of Memories and the
Work-Ing-Memory System
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Q1) Compare and contrast maintenance and elaborative rehearsal by considering their effects on the creation of memory connections.
Q2) For most recall tests,the transfer of items into long-term storage is best facilitated by ________ rehearsal.
A)maintenance
B)elaborative
C)recency
D)primacy
Q3) Imagine you are shown the word "dog" and asked one of the following questions about that word.Which of these questions is going to lead to the best memory performance?
A)Does it fit into the sentence,"The ________ enjoyed his dinner"?
B)Does it contain an "A"?
C)Does it fit into the following sentence: "The speeding car swung around the corner,music blaring,and screeched to a halt before seeing the ________"?
D)Does it rhyme with "log"?
Q4) Describe Baddeley's working-memory model.Name two cognitive phenomena that are well explained by the model.
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Chapter 7: Interconnections Between Acquisi-Tion and Retrieval
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Q1) Weston is initially unsure how to answer the question "What is the capital of Wisconsin?" When provided with the hint "It's a girl's name," Weston quickly recalls that the capital is Madison.Which of the following best explains this?
A)There was a strong flow of activation from the Wisconsin nodes to the Madison nodes.
B)There was no connection between the Wisconsin nodes and the Madison nodes.
C)The Madison node was activated once it received activation from both the Wisconsin and the girl's names nodes.
D)There was a strong connection between the girl's names nodes and the Madison nodes.
Q2) An investigator asks,"Can you remember what happened last Tuesday at noon while you were sitting in the back room of Jane's Restaurant?" This is an example of a question relying on A)recognition.
B)implicit memory.
C)procedural memory.
D)recall.
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Chapter 8: Remembering Complex Events
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Q1) Dmitri witnessed a bank robbery but now seems unable to remember what he saw.To improve Dmitri's recall,a friend hypnotizes him and asks him,while he is hypnotized,to recall the crime.Research indicates that if questioned while under hypnosis Dmitri will
A)give a more elaborate (but not more accurate)account of the crime than he has on other occasions.
B)give a more accurate (but not more complete)account of the crime than he has on other occasions.
C)be less vulnerable to the effect of leading questions.
D)suffer from less retrieval failure.
Q2) After reading a news article about a woman who recovered repressed memories of childhood abuse,your friend starts to think she too may have been abused as a child.Given your knowledge of autobiographical memory,emotions,traumatic memories,and memory errors,what would you tell her?
Q3) Connections among our various memories do all of the following EXCEPT
A)help us to resist source confusion.
B)serve as retrieval paths.
C)interweave our various memories,inviting intrusion errors.
D)link related memories.
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Chapter 9: Concepts and Generic Knowledge
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Q1) The textbook notes that our beliefs influence our categories,and our categories influence our beliefs.Explain what is meant by this by providing an example that supports each assertion.
Q2) Which of the following benefits does a hierarchical network provide?
A)Information can be searched for equally quickly across all levels of the network.
B)It allows the option for information to be stored at higher levels,reducing redundancy in information storage.
C)Information can be stored repeatedly,ensuring accuracy.
D)Information is organized according to frequency of use,so that more common representations can be accessed more quickly.
Q3) The term "basic-level category" refers to the
A)level of categorization regarded by most participants as indisputable.
B)most general level of categorization of which participants can think.
C)most specific level of categorization of which participants can think.
D)most natural level of categorization,which is neither too specific nor too general.
Q4) Are basic-level categories the same as prototypes? Why or why not?
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Chapter 10: Languag
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Q1) For fluent speakers of a language,rules of the language such as how to create new words are often
A)deliberately followed by speakers of a language.
B)developed through imitation.
C)implicit yet are reliably followed by speakers of the language.
D)generally ignored.
Q2) In one study of sentence processing,an electroencephalogram (EEG)was used to reveal brain activity while participants heard sentences that were either correct,had a semantic anomaly,or had a statement that contained false information.The evidence from that study suggests that
A)electrical activity is the same,regardless of the content of the sentence.
B)our previous knowledge of the world influences how we parse sentences.
C)errors in syntax are worse than errors of semantics.
D)brain activity is at a uniformly high level from the beginning of a sentence until the end.
Q3) Which of the following provides an example of phrase structure ambiguity?
A)I saw the bear with my binoculars.(Who had the binoculars?)
B)He paid a lot for the ball.(Was it a round toy or a formal party?)
C)She loves a good whine.(This can be heard as "a good wine.")
D)We saw it.(The reference of "it" is unspecified. )
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Chapter 11: Visual Knowledg
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Q1) Which of the following sentences would best describe the notion of boundary extension?
A)"Don't judge a book by its cover."
B)"Think about the big picture."
C)"Don't believe everything you see."
D)"Seeing is believing."
Q2) The term "photographic memory" is used in many settings.When researchers are discussing highly detailed,fully visual memory,though,they use the term
A)super-recognition.
B)hyperthymnesia.
C)perfect perception.
D)eidetic imagery.
Q3) The concept of boundary extension suggests that
A)people understand a picture by means of a perceptual schema.
B)schemas influence memory for images,but not as much as they influence memory for verbal information.
C)people remember pictures in a "zoomed-in" manner.
D)semantic knowledge has no influence on memory for images.
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Chapter 12: Judgment and Reasoning
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Q1) A base rate is defined as information
A)that helps us to identify which specific candidates have a target property.
B)about the broad likelihood of a particular type of event.
C)indicating the internal variability of a set or category.
D)that can be used to diagnose an individual category member.
Q2) When we encounter a highly unusual event,we are particularly likely to notice and consider the event.As a consequence
A)we are likely to think about how distinctive the event really is,leading us to underestimate the likelihood of this type of event.
B)we are likely to think about the event as being in its own special category,so the event will have little impact on our estimates of frequency.
C)the event will be easy to recall,leading us to overestimate the likelihood of this type of event.
D)the event will be difficult to recall,leading us to underestimate the likelihood of this type of event.
Q3) Consider the Asian disease problem.Describe the various ways the problem can be framed and how people typically respond in each situation.
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Chapter 13: Problem Solving and Intelligence
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Q1) Describe the genetic and environmental factors that influence intelligence.Why is it a mistake to ask,"How much of your intelligence comes from genes,and how much from the environment?"
Q2) Dell,a problem-solving amateur,is trying to solve the "hobbits and orcs" problem,and so she must determine how to move the creatures across a river.Dell is most likely to be helped if she has had earlier experience with A)a problem with a similar structure and which also involved hobbits and orcs.
B)a problem with the same structure,but which involved protecting wives from their jealous husbands.
C)other problems involving transportation across obstacles.
D)problems illustrating the techniques for dealing with river currents.
Q3) One way to turn an ill-defined question into a well-defined question is to
A)add extra constraints or assumptions to the problem so that it has more structure.
B)make the question less specific.
C)make the question rhetorical.
D)remove any clear or concrete goal state from the problem.
Q4) How are experts different from novices when it comes to solving problems? How might expertise help with problem solving?
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Chapter 14: Conscious Thought,Unconscious Thought
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Q1) In one study,participants in Group 1 were given a pill and told,"This pill will make you a bit jumpy,will make your palms sweat,and may give you butterflies in your stomach." Participants in Group 2 were given the same pill,but they were told,"This pill may make you a little sleepy." In both cases,the pill was a placebo and actually had no effect.All participants were then exposed to electric shocks and were asked to rate how painful each shock had seemed.Given other evidence,we would expect that A)there would be no difference between the two groups.
B)the participants would not differ in how they rated the shocks,but participants in Group 2 would end up having more positive feelings about the experiment.
C)the participants in Group 2 would rate the shocks as less painful than the participants in Group 1.
D)the participants in Group 1 would rate the shocks as less painful than the participants in Group 2.
Q2) The term "neural correlates of consciousness" refers to the A)changes in the brain that occur when we become conscious of a stimulus.
B)subjective experience of how it feels to become conscious of a stimulus.
C)area of the brain that is damaged when a person experiences blind sight.
D)electrical activity in the brain that occurs when we are unconscious.
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