Cognitive Zaps Labs

The relationship between the physical distances between two locations and visual representations of the same can be described as what?

Analogus, linear, and positive correlation

Mood congruency memory bias effects occur only when you are in a negative mood.

False

MEMORY BIAS: you studied last night listening to sad music with it raining and gloomy outside. The next morning you are happy but can't remember the info, what do you do?

Listen to sad music while reading over your notes again.

What is the tendency to remmeber emotionally charged information best when you are in a mood matching that emotion?

Mood congruency

The word banana appears on the left screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her right hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana?

No

The word banana appears on the right screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her left hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana?

No

Hearing or reading a word frequently increases the ease and speed of its recognition because of this phenomenon in lexical decision.

Repetition Priming

The Collins and Quillian model proposes that categorical information is organized hierarchically. What is one important difference between this model and a spreading activation model?

The relationship between concepts in a spreading activation model can strengthen or weaken depending on typicality and frequency of occurrence.

During flu season, people are more likely to ask, "Do you have any Kleenex?" than "Do you have tissues?" This is best explained by the typicality effect.

True

Words are most likely stored in the mental lexicon by semantics, so that table would be closer to chair than it would be to tape.

True

Research on congenitally blind people demonstrates what?

Visual information is not always represented by pictures, but can be represented with tactile memory.

The word banana appears on the left screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her left hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana?

Yes

Research conducted on homographs (e.g., bat or minute) in lexical decision tasks predicts that you are likely to what?

activate multiple meanings of words, and particularly active closely related words.

Based on the ideas presented in this ZAPS lab, under which of the following conditions do you think participants would be able to most quickly name the color in which the stimuli are written or drawn?

colored blobs

According to the network proposed by Collins and Quillian, common characteristics that different breeds of dogs share (e.g.: fur, tail, sharp hearing) will appear once and as high up as possible in the network. What is this concept called?

the principle of inheritance

If you were describing your cat from memory, according to research on mental imagery, it would take longer to scan from its eyes to its tail than from its eyes to the bell around its neck.

true

The word banana appears on the right screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her right hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana?

yes