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PSY 352 Week 1 Quiz NEW
Question 1
Experiences in which input from one sensory system produces
an experience not only in that modality but in another, as well,
are called:
synesthesia.
synchrony.
modulation.
syncopation.
Question 2
2. If two people have exactly the same sensory abilities and hear
exactly the same faint noise, they may differ in their experience
due to:
sensitivity.
response bias.
sensation.
bottom-up processing.
Question 3
The tendency to attend to and visually analyze scenes in a
particular way is called:
flicker detection.
mental focus.
change blindness.
perceptual set.
Question 4
3. __________ refers to a procedure that requires a rigorous, and
systematic self-report of the basic elements of an experience,
and was the primary method used by __________.
Schema analysis; Gestalt psychologists
Savings; behaviorists
Functional reporting; functionalists
Introspection; structuralists
Question 5
The ability to detect the presence or absence of a stimulus or a
change in a stimulus is termed:
sensitivity.
response bias.
sensation.
bottom-up processing.
Question 6
4. Which theory of attention posits that selection occurs after all
incoming stimuli have been identified?
attenuation theory
late selection theory
early selection theory
All theories of attention make this assumption.
Question 7
Research on split-brain patients reveals that:
the left hemisphere typically specializes in verbal processing,
while the right hemisphere specializes in spatial tasks
the left hemisphere typically specializes in spatial tasks, while
the right hemisphere specializes in verbal processing
people who have had their corpus callosum severed have a
great deal of difficulty functioning in everyday life
for normal people, there is no difference between the
functioning of the left and right hemispheres
Question 8
5. The term ________ is typically associated with the physiological
processes that underlie information intake, while the term
________ is typically associated with the interpretation and
organization of incoming information.
top-down processing; bottom-up processing
bottom-up processing; top-down processing
sensation; perception
perception; sensation
Question 9
The information processing approach to cognition likens
thought to:
the operation of a computer.
the storage system of a library.
the assembly-line production of a factory.
the trial-and-error learning of the rat in a maze.
6. Question 10
You set out from your living room to go down to the basement
to get something. When you get to the basement, you forget
what you have walked down there to get. What kind of action
slip is this?.
description error
associative activation error
capture error
loss of activation error
Question 11
What was the term Bartlett used for generalized knowledge
structures about events and situations based on past
experience?
savings
introspections
configurations
schemata
Question 12
7. The attentional blink is indicated by:
Decreased RT to a second target stimulus, the sooner it occurs
after an initial target stimulus.
decreased RT to a first target stimulus because participants
expect it to be followed by a second target.
increased RT to a second target stimulus, the sooner it occurs
after an initial target stimulus.
increased RT to a first target stimulus because participants
expect it to be followed by a second target.
Question 13
Which school of psychology included principles of visual
organization in their understanding of psychological
processes?
Gestalt
Functionalism
Structuralism
Behaviorism
Question 14
8. The atomistic approach employed by the structuralists —
breaking consciousness down into its elemental components —
has been likened to the approach of which other scientific
discipline?
physics
chemistry
biology
archaeology
Question 15
The active mode of attention might also be termed:
bottom-up.
goal-driven.
stimulus-driven.
pre-attentive.
Question 16
William James was a prominent ________ who characterized
consciousness as a _______.
functionalist; stream
9. functionalist; complex combination of simple elements
structuralist; stream
structuralist; complex combination of simple elements
Question 17
Our tendency to group elements that occur at the same time is
called:
common fate.
similarity.
closure.
synchrony.
Question 18
According to feature integration theory, visual search is a ____-
stage process.
one
two
three
four
10. Question 19
The sense of subjective awareness of what our mind is
currently doing is termed:
access consciousness.
phenomenal consciousness.
metacognition.
unconsciousness.
Question 20
The sub-discipline of cognitive science that is interested in the
association between mental processing and brain activity is:
developmental
clinical.
neuropsychology.
social.
Question 21
11. _________ refers to the tendency for objects that are near to one
another to be grouped.
Similarity
Proximity
Closure
Common fate
Question 22
The forgetting curve, as mapped out by Ebbinghaus,
demonstrates that material is forgotten:
very slowly at first, then at a very rapid rate.
rapidly at first, then at a very slow steady rate.
at a fairly constant rate over time.
only if there is interference.
Question 23
Feature search is to _____ as conjunction search is to _____.
post-attentive; pre-attentive
affected by display size; unaffected by display size
12. feature integration; pop-out
subitizing; enumeration
Question 24
The higher cognitive processes, such as remembering,
planning, and deciding are located in:
the cerebral cortex.
the midbrain.
the hindbrain.
none of the above.
Question 25
Metacognition refers to:
the role that emotion plays in cognition.
the fact that we have evolved particular cognitive tendencies
and abilities.
the role that the body plays in thinking.
the knowledge we have about our own cognitive processes.
