PSY 322 Practice Multiple Choice Q's

The first place in the cerebral cortex where visual information is received

Occipital lobe

Axon

Action potential travels along the

Good figure

"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?

Sensory store, Filter, Detector, Memory

Broadbent's filter model (the stages of info. processing occur in what order)

Make a decision about the stimulus

By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to

size constancy

Charlene sees her boyfriend across campus and waves. Even though the image he projects on her retina from the distance is small, Charlene does not perceive him to have shrunk at all. Instead she perceives him as far away because of

Brain imaging has made it possible to:

Determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes

Shadowing

In a dichotic listening experiment, _________ refers to the procedure that is used to force participants to pay attention to a specific message among competing messages.

Observable behavior

John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of

Broca's area

Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored. Josiah may have damage to his

top-down processing

Perceiving machines are used by the US postal service to read the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses most unlikely because of

Inborn programming

Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky notes that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded language development is

likelihood principle

Theory of unconscious inference includes

selective attention

When sam listens to his girlfriend Susan in the restaurant and ignores other people's conversations, he is engaged in the process of

Three-letter nonsense words

Which of the following stimuli were used in Ebbinghaus's "memory" experiment discussed in your text?

tasks are well practiced

Automatic processing occurs when: