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Course Introduction
Psychology of Learning explores the fundamental theories, principles, and processes underlying how humans and animals acquire, retain, and apply knowledge and skills. The course examines classical and operant conditioning, cognitive approaches, observational learning, motivation, and the impact of biological, social, and environmental factors on learning. Students will analyze experimental research, apply key concepts to real-world settings such as education and behavior modification, and critically evaluate the effectiveness of learning strategies across diverse populations.
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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) Which of the following is a criticism of analytic introspection?
A) It infers mental processes based on objective data.
B) It produces results that are too easy to verify.
C) It produces variable results from person to person.
D) It requires no training.
Answer: C
Q2) In which year was positron emission tomography (PET) introduced and made it possible to see which areas of the human brain are activated during cognitive activity?
A) 1969
B) 1984
C) 1991
D) 1976
Answer: D
Q3) Who introduced the flow diagram to represent what is happening in the mind?
A) Donald Broadbent
B) Colin Cherry
C) Newell and Simon
D) Wilhelm Wundt
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as
A) cognitive psychology.
B) neuroscience.
C) cognitive neuroscience.
D) neuropsychology.
Answer: C
Q2) Which part of the nervous system picks up information from the outside environment?
A) Dendrites
B) Axons
C) Synapses
D) Receptors
Answer: D
Q3) The idea that specific cognitive functions activate many areas of the brain is known as
A) localization of function.
B) distributed representation.
C) modularity.
D) aphasia.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is the principle of perceptual
A) conjunction.
B) organization.
C) discriminability.
D) fusion.
Answer: B
Q2) How does the phenomenon of apparent movement work?
A) The perceptual system creates the perception of movement from stationary images.
B) The perceptual system detects stationary images more slowly than motion is perceived.
C) The retina sends overlapping electrical signals to the brain when motion is perceived.
D) The perceptual system slows when flashing objects are introduced.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) Compare and contrast Broadbent's and Treisman's models of attention. How are they similar? How do they differ? Which model is considered "leaky" and why?
Q2) With the Stroop effect, you would expect to find longest response times when
A) the color and the name matched.
B) the color and the name differed.
C) the shape and the name matched.
D) the shape and the name differed.
Q3) The ability to focus on one stimulus while filtering out other stimuli is called A) sensory memory.
B) cocktail party effect.
C) detection.
D) filtering.
Q4) According to your text, the ability to divide attention depends on all of the following EXCEPT
A) practice.
B) the type of processing being used.
C) the difficulty of the tasks.
D) task cueing.
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Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) Models designed to explain mental functioning are constantly refined and modified to explain new results. Which of the following exemplifies this concept based on the results presented in your text?
A) Replacing the short-term memory component of the modal model with working memory
B) Replacing the sensory memory component of the modal model with the episodic buffer
C) Replacing the short-term memory component of the modal model with iconic memory
D) Replacing the sensory memory component of the modal model with working memory
Q2) Jason quickly scanned the map on his phone to get to his job interview, then took a left and ran down the block so he wouldn't be late. According to Stokes, Jason's ability to recall the directions as he's running is the result of ________.
A) a buffering process followed by an activity process
B) an activity state followed by a synaptic state
C) a buffering process followed by an executive process
D) a synaptic state followed by a buffering state
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
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Q1) According to Tulving, an episodic memory is distinguished by the process of ________ it.
A) semanticizing
B) knowing
C) reliving
D) coding
Q2) Procedural memories are also known as ________ memories.
A) static
B) skill
C) explicit
D) task
Q3) The propaganda effect demonstrates that we evaluate familiar statements as being true
A) only when we are aware we've seen them before.
B) simply because we have been exposed to them before.
C) only when we agree with them.
D) unless we are told explicitly that the statements are false.
Q4) Explain how research on brain-damaged individuals informs our understanding of priming in implicit memory.
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Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
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Q1) Free recall of the stimulus list "apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants" will most likely yield which of these response patterns?
A) "apple, desk, shoe, coat, lamp, pants"
B) "apple, desk, shoe, sofa, plum, chair, cherry, coat, lamp, pants"
C) "apple, cherry, plum, shoe, coat, pants, lamp, chair"
D) "apple, chair, cherry, coat, desk, lamp, plum, shoe, sofa"
Q2) Experimental evidence suggesting that the standard model of consolidation needs to be revised are data that show that the hippocampus was activated during retrieval of ___________ memories.
A) recent and remote episodic
B) recent and remote semantic
C) recent episodic
D) remote semantic
Q3) The concept of encoding specificity is grounded in which of the following?
A) Task
B) Structure
C) Mood
D) Location
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Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) An important application of memory research has been in understanding the nature of eyewitness testimony. Citing the research in your text, explain why people make errors in eyewitness testimony.
Q2) Ellen is 52 years old. Which of the following experiences has most likely faded from her memory?
A) Winning the first grade spelling bee
B) Going to her high school prom
C) Moving into her first apartment
D) Getting her driver's license
Q3) For most adults over age 40, the reminiscence bump describes enhanced memory for
A) childhood and adolescence.
B) adolescence and young adulthood.
C) young adulthood and middle age.
D) childhood and middle age.
Q4) Which of the following is most commonly associated with music-enhanced autobiographical memories (MEAMS)?
A) Repression
B) Trauma
C) Culture
D) Emotion
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Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
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Q1) According to the sensory-functional hypothesis, our ability to differentiate living things and artifacts depends on a semantic memory system that distinguishes _____ and one that distinguishes _____.
A) sensations; facts
B) sensory attributes; function
C) serial nodes; familiar concepts
D) sequential networks; familial resemblance
Q2) Explain how personal knowledge impacts the basic level of categorization under Rosch's approach. Give examples comparing two individuals' knowledge of a concept to support your thinking.
Q3) Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features. Most fish have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack the feature of scales, yet they are still categorized as fish. This poses a problem for the ___________ approach to categorization.
A) prototype
B) exemplar
C) definitional
D) family resemblance
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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) Perky's experiment, in which participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects onto a screen, showed that
A) imagery and perception are two different phenomena.
B) imagery and perception can interact with one another.
C) there are large individual differences in people's ability to create visual images.
D) creating a visual image can interfere with a perceptual judgment task.
Q2) Suppose we asked people to form simultaneous images of two or more animals such as a rabbit alongside an elephant. Then, we ask them basic questions about the animals. For example, we might ask if the rabbit has whiskers. Given our knowledge of imagery research, we would expect the fastest response to this question when the rabbit is imagined alongside
A) a wolf.
B) an anteater.
C) a rhinoceros.
D) a bumblebee.
Q3) Compare and contrast spatial and propositional representation. Give an example of each based on the same stimulus.
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Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) Language consists of smaller components, like words, that can be combined to form larger ones, like phrases, to create sentences, which themselves can be components of a larger story. This demonstrates the ____________________ property of language.
A) hierarchical
B) relational
C) parallel
D) propositional
Q2) The given-new contract is a method for creating A) comprehension between a speaker and a listener in a conversation.
B) children's mastery of syntax.
C) resolution of a lexically ambiguous sentence.
D) anaphoric inferences between consecutive sentences.
Q3) In the context of language, another term for "heuristics" is ________.
A) phrases
B) rules
C) meanings
D) turns
Q4) Compare and contrast Skinner's and Chomsky's views on language acquisition. Give examples of each perspective to support your ideas.
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) In the movie Apollo 13, astronauts aboard a damaged spacecraft have to build a carbon dioxide filter out of random items that are aboard the ship with them. If they do not, they will all die rapidly of carbon dioxide poisoning. The fact that they are able to do so with the help of experts on Earth is similar to the _________________ approach developed by Ronald Finke.
A) convergent thinking
B) creative cognition
C) divergent thinking
D) the means-end analysis
Q2) Which term best describes the task of factoring the equation 9x2 + 5x - 7 = 4x2 - 2x + 8?
A) Divergent
B) Functional
C) Analytical
D) Analogical
Q3) Which of the following is not true about divergent thinking?
A) It is open-ended.
B) It has a large number of potential solutions.
C) It is the cornerstone of creativity.
D) It has a single correct answer.
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Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
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Q1) Ling is sure that if her boyfriend proposes, she will feel elation. This is an example of an
A) expected emotion.
B) immediate emotion.
C) integral immediate emotion.
D) incidental immediate emotion.
Q2) From a thinking perspective, when faced with making a decision, the suggestion to "Go with your gut" would emphasize ________, while the suggestion "Take your time" would place emphasis on ________.
A) System 2; System 1
B) Type 2; Type 1
C) System 1; Type 1
D) Type 1; System 2
Q3) Utility refers to
A) outcomes that achieve a person's goals.
B) how useful a reasoning process is.
C) the validity of a syllogism.
D) degree of risk aversion one has.
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