2145 quiz questions
Learning occurs only during study. Testing is only to check if the material has been learned. Question options: True False
False
People recognize when multi-tasking is costing them and usually stop. Question options: True False
False
[Matching] Match each lobe of the brain with its function. ____ Control and decision making ___ Auditory processing and Memory __ Vision _ Attention and motor action 1. Parietal lobe 2. Occipital lobe 3. Temporal lobe 4. Frontal lobe
4,3,2,1
A feature net is a Question options: network of cognitive "detectors" organized in hierarchical layers. collective of features used to describe an object's form. netlike structure of brain cells designed to detect features. conceptualization of how features are visually related to one another.
A
A model that represents specific processes with arrows that indicate connections to other processes is called a: Question options: Process model Box and arrow model Structural model Specific representation model
A
A participant is asked to look within himself or herself and report on his or her own mental processes. This method is called Question options: introspection. self-evaluation. mentalistic study. self-monitoring.
A
A researcher has identified the receptive field for a neuron and has determined that the receptive field has a center-surround organization. If the researcher were to shine light into the entire receptive field, including both the center and the surrounding areas, we would expect the neuron to Question options: continue firing at its resting rate. increase its firing rate. decrease its firing rate. cease firing.
A
A student is shown pictures of cars and faces while an fMRI took measurements in the fusiform face area (FFA). There was far less response for cars when compared to faces. The experimenter then trained the student to identify the cars accurately. After the training period, the student was shown the pictures of cars and faces again while in the fMRI. According to experience-dependent plasticity, how would the student's FFA respond to cars compared to faces in the second fMRI session? Question options: Stronger response for cars than the first fMRI. No difference from the first fMRI. Diminished responses for faces compared to cars. Diminished responses for cars compared to faces.
A
The phrase "Betsy wants to bring Jacob a present. She shook her piggy bank" is easily understood by most people because Question options: our previous knowledge fills in the necessary details. the sentences are short. introspection allows us to understand how Betsy feels. English is a simple language to understand.
A
An experienced driver can drive while holding a relatively complex conversation. This combination of activities is difficult, however, for a novice driver. Which of the following explanations most likely explains the difference? Question options: Practicing a task leads to a decline in the resource demands for that task. The two activities are very different, so the task combination creates no problems with channel segregation. The two activities are very different, so they rely on different sets of task-specific resources. Practicing the tasks improves confidence in the task.
A
B.F. Skinner, a behaviorist, proposed that children learn to use language through a series of ______ and _______ associations. Question options: stimulus, response correct, incorrect positive, negative thought, feeling
A
Biederman's recognition by components (RBC) model Question options: makes use of geon detectors, which in turn trigger detectors for geon assemblies. can recognize three-dimensional objects provided they are seen from the appropriate viewing angle. asserts that priming takes place primarily at levels higher than the level of geon detectors. does not rely on a hierarchy of detectors.
A
Capgras syndrome provides an illustration of several important themes in Chapter 2. All of the following are true of Capgras EXCEPT Question options: damage to the amygdala will result in an inability to recognize imposters. cognitive disorders often co-occur, such as Alzheimer's syndrome and Capgras syndrome. damage to a specific part of the brain is likely to produce specific symptoms. the brain is interconnected so that many systems interact.
A
Cognitive psychology often relies on the transcendental method, in which Question options: researchers seek to infer the properties of unseen events on the basis of the observable effects of those events. theories are tested via computer models. mental events are explained by referring to events in the central nervous system. information from introspection transcends behavioral data.
A
Commissures, including the corpus callosum, are Question options: thick bundles of fibers that allow communication between the brain's hemispheres. blood vessels that carry blood to all areas of the brain. pockets of oxygen found throughout the brain. brain areas associated with various types of sensory information.
A
Human brains have a distinct division-of-labor strategy. Each task is achieved as a result of multiple brain areas working together. But the work of the various parts of the brain must be compiled into a finished whole. The issue of how this reassembly works is referred to as the Question options: binding problem. Humpty Dumpty dilemma. reassembly law. ultimate puzzle.
A
If a participant is asked to perform two activities at the same time, performance will be improved if Question options: the two activities are highly dissimilar, drawing on different task-specific resources. neither activity involves verbal processing. both activities require large amounts of task-general resources. the two activities are highly similar, drawing on the same task-specific resources.
A
If attention is like a spotlight, then feature search is a(n) ________ spotlight, while a search for a combination of features is a ________ spotlight. Question options: broad; focused focused; small above-average; below-average focused; broad
A
Jenna sees a picture of a black lab standing in front of its owner. The dog is blocking part of the owner's leg, so that some of the leg is unavailable to Jenna. How is Jenna likely to perceive this image? Question options: She will think the leg continues behind the body of the dog. She will think the leg behind the dog's body is missing. She will assume that the dog is assisting a man with only one leg. She will not make any assumptions about the image and rely only on the actual stimuli in the picture.
A
Kate has a split brain. Her doctor briefly presents the word "hammer" to only her left visual field and then asks her what she saw. Which set of responses is Kate most likely to give? Question options: She will say she doesn't know what word appeared but she will be able to identify the object with her left hand. She will say "hammer." She will say she doesn't know what word appeared and she will not be able to identify the object using either hand. She will say she doesn't know what word appeared but she will be able to identify the object with her right hand
A
Looking at an object from multiple angles results in more accurate information about the shape of an object, especially when... Question options: the object is familiar. the object is unfamiliar. the object appears to be transparent. the object is moving.
A
McClelland and Rumelhart's model of word recognition suggests detectors on separate levels can interact in a bidirectional manner. Biological evidence ________ this notion because ________. Question options: supports; visual processing is bidirectional supports; there is parallel processing in the visual system does not support; visual processing is an entirely bottom-up process does not support; word recognition does not depend on visual processing
A
Neuron X sends a signal that is picked up and processed by Neuron Y. This between-cell communication occurs via Question options: chemical transmission between Neuron X and Neuron Y. electrical stimulation of Neuron Y by Neuron X. fibers that connect Neuron X and Neuron Y. We don't know how it happens.
A
SQ3R describes a technique for studying texts and stands for: Question options: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review Summarize, Qualify the summary, Reduce the concept to an outline, Review the outline, Rest (sleep). Sort the material from easiest to hardest, generate Questions, Review the harder concepts, Recite the easier text, Review the harder concepts again. Study and Question for 3 repeats.
A
The existence of task-general resources is indicated by the fact that Question options: interference between two tasks can sometimes be observed even if the two tasks have no elements in common. if a task has been heavily practiced, it is less likely to cause interference with other tasks. some brain lesions disrupt all tasks requiring attention. similar tasks will interfere with each other more than dissimilar tasks.
A
The term "geons" is short for Question options: geometric ions. geometric objects. geometric examples of objects in space. It is not short for anything.
A
The testing effect was shown in a study by Roediger and Karpicke in 2006 when they found that ________. Question options: individuals better remembered a list a week later when they were tested on the material instead of studying the material again. individuals who repeatedly studied but were not tested, better remembered a list immediately after studying. individuals who mastered material early had a better effect on testing than those who took longer. individuals who were repeatedly tested on a list always recall more words than those who repeatedly study.
A
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses a strong magnetic pulse to Question options: produce a temporary disruption to the brain area, and thus brain function, where it is applied. measure the blood flow using blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals. record the amount of glucose a specific brain region used during a cognitive task. create a detailed "map" of the different brain areas.
A
What are two concepts that may contribute to source misattributions? Question options: Schemas and Scripts Fame and Notoriety Cryptoamnesia and Misleading postevent information Sleep and Super memory
A
Which of the following statements most accurately describes visual illusions? Question options: The cognitive architecture that helps us in most cases causes illusions in other cases. Illusions are mostly beneficial to perception. Illusions will not occur if you know how to avoid them. Illusions can occur for shape and size, but not for color or brightness.
A
Which of the following would a classical behaviorist be LEAST likely to study? Question options: a participant's beliefs changes in a participant's behavior that follow changes in the environment principles that apply equally to human behavior and to the behavior of other species a participant's response to a particular situation
A
Select each of the following that do not help learning: Question options: Re-reading study materials. Creating mental images of a text. Explaining how new information is related to previous information. Elaborating on a stated fact. Summarizing a text. Testing. Studying different materials in blocks.
A,B,E
"Bottom-up" (or "data-driven") mechanisms are Question options: the scientific process in which all claims must be rooted in well-established biological evidence. mechanisms for which activity is primarily triggered and shaped by the incoming stimulus information. mechanisms for which activity is influenced by thoughts provided by the individual. the process by which researchers seek to develop new theories by paying close attention to the available data.
B
A structural model is: Question options: Any model that exists in the physical world. A model of physical structure. A model of information flow from one process to another. An exact, scaled replica of a real structure.
B
Bob suffered brain damage and now has difficulty recognizing objects. He was shown a clock and was asked to draw it, but drew only a square. However, when asked to draw a clock from memory, he was able to do it. Bob is likely suffering from Question options: prosopagnosia. apperceptive agnosia. associative agnosia. memory loss.
B
Cells detecting the boundary of a surface are subject to less lateral inhibition than cells detecting the center of the same surface. This leads to an effect called Question options: lateral enhancement. edge enhancement. the boundary rule. the all-or-none law.
B
Complete the analogy: Incoming is to outgoing as ________ is to ________. Question options: dendrite; cell body dendrite; axon axon; cell body cell body; axon
B
English nonwords (e.g., "HICE") are easier to perceive than strings of letters not resembling English words (e.g., "RSFK") because Question options: they are encountered more often. bigram detectors for more-common letter combinations fire more readily. they are more distinctive. word detectors will respond to near words as well as true words. Question 7
B
Having difficulty saying "blue" when reporting the color of ink the word "Purple" is printed in, is example of what effect? Question options: The Broadbent bottleneck effect. The Stroop effect. The Google effect. Top-down processing.
B
Participants are shown the letter-string TPUM for 30 ms and asked to identify what they saw. If they are going to answer incorrectly, which response are they most likely to give? Question options: I did not see anything presented. OPUM TRUM TMPU
C
In order to summarize the Gestalt psychologists' movement in a few words, one might say Question options: "If you can't see it happen, it isn't worth studying." "The perceptual whole is different than the sum of its parts." "All that is important happens in the subconscious." "What you see is what you get."
B
Individuals who repeatedly review material with no testing report _________ they will test better at a later date than those who undergo testing instead of review. Question options: the same level of confidence that lower confidence that they are unable to predict if higher confidence that
B
Is talking/texting while driving safe? why? Question options: Yes, hands-free sets help you keep both your hands on the steering wheel and your eyes on the road so that you can focus all of your attention on driving. No, driving demands constant application of attentional resources and we lack enough excess attentional resources to be talking to someone over the phone. No, it distracts you from your important conversation with friends. Yes, after driving a certain amount of time it becomes automatic so you have enough excess attention to talk on your cell.
B
Posner, Snyder, and Davidson (1980) examined spatial attention using arrows as a prime. Most of the time the arrow pointed to the area where the stimulus would appear, but 20% of the time it did not. They compared reaction times (RTs) when the cue was valid, when it was invalid, and when a neutral cue was presented. Which of the following statements was NOT supported by their findings? Question options: RTs were faster for responses to valid cues relative to neutral cues. We can attend to two different locations without a reduction in performance. Spatial attention is limited in capacity. RTs were slower in the invalid condition than in the valid condition.
B
Shadowing can provide a cue for depth. For example, if a shadow appears on the bottom of a circle, the object appears convex. However, if the shadow appears on the top of the object, it appears concave. This happens because Question options: we have a part of the visual cortex that is dedicated to the interpretation of shadows that are at the bottom of an object. in the real world, light comes from above more often than from below. we were taught in school how to interpret shadows. we are born with the ability to discriminate depth through use of shadows.
B
Showing that damage to Wernicke's area causes language comprehension but not language production deficits and damage to Broca's area causes language production but not language comprehension deficits is an example of: Question options: Neural networking Double dissociation Prosopagnosia Functional magnetic resonance imaging
B
The form of brain damage identified as prosopagnosia is primarily characterized by an inability to Question options: identify inverted stimuli even though perception of upright stimuli seems normal. recognize faces. comprehend written text. identify familiar voices.
B
The mind is said to 'take possession' of an object or thought through attention. The statement from James reflects the idea that the mind is working to represent a single item or thought and not other items (or thoughts). For neural representations, this idea would mean that neurons fire ________ to the attended object and ______ to unattended objects. Question options: less; less more; less more; more less; more
B
Though it is not in the reading, one of the reasons humans are more efficient at perceiving objects and scenes than computerized systems is because we have learned about what types of objects typically occur together. The reading describes this type of regularity as... Question options: Expected regularity Semantic regularity Physical regularity Prior likelihood regularity
B
Which of these memory types could be described as implicit? Question options: Autobiographical memory Procedural memory Episodic memory Semantic memory
B
You are at a concert for your favorite musical artist. There are thousands of people around you screaming and yelling. You can hear the musician singing but you fail to notice what the person next to you is saying until they say your name. This is an example of what? Question options: Perceptual load. The cocktail party effect. The dichotic model. The dictionary unit effect.
B
For each of the following, select those pairs that are thought to be processed as separate visual streams. Question options: Size and shape Color and brightness Fine spatial information and movement Red and green colors
B,C
A participant is shown a series of stimuli and is asked to name the color of the ink in which the stimuli are printed. The eighth stimulus happens to be printed in green ink. We should expect a relatively slow response if the stimulus happens to be Question options: the participant's name printed in green. a series of green X 's. the word "RED" printed in green. the word "GREEN" printed in green.
C
According to the Goulimaki Slate article, approximately what percentage of students say they text during class? Question options: Some, 40-70%. Only the 'bad apples', < 10% 10-40%. Most, 70-90%. Nearly all, > 90%.
C
Attention is best characterized as a(n) Question options: mechanism. skill. capacity. achievement.
C
Attention is limited in several ways. Sometimes we can complete competing tasks at the same time, but sometimes we cannot because the tasks interfere with each other. Which combination of tasks is likely to cause the LEAST amount of interference? Question options: a task that requires general resources and one that requires task-specific resources tasks that require the same task-specific resources two tasks that require different task-specific resources tasks that require general resources
C
Evidence from single-cell recording experiments suggests that we might have a cell that responds to a picture of Jennifer Aniston. Which of the following statements about that experiment is true? Question options: The study was done on monkeys, because it is unethical to do such a study on humans. Most cells only responded to the pictures of Jennifer Aniston with short hair, like she had on Friends. Some cells responded to pictures of Jennifer Aniston, regardless of the viewpoint of the photo. The cells only responded to close-up pictures of Jennifer Aniston.
C
Executive control is likely engaged in all of the following situations EXCEPT when one Question options: wants to avoid a habitual response. is startled. is working on "auto-pilot." wants to focus on a specific task and avoid distractions.
C
If a cat casts a 5 millimeter image on your retina when it is 10 feet away from you, that same cat will cast an image that is ________ millimeters when it is 20 feet away from you. Question options: 5 10 2.5 20
C
In cognition, as in other sciences, we first develop ________ and then ________ them. Question options: tests; prove theories; test hypotheses; test hypotheses; prove
C
Introspection CANNOT be used to study Question options: events that take a long time to unfold. topics that are strongly colored by emotion. mental events that are unconscious. processes that involve conceptual knowledge.
C
Jillian is participating in an experiment in which she was asked to shadow a message presented to the left ear while simultaneously ignoring a message presented to the right ear. Jillian is LEAST likely to detect which of the following changes in the signals? Question options: The right ear's message is initially presented in a high-pitched voice but is then spoken by a low-pitched voice. The right ear's message is initially presented in a soft voice but is then spoken by a loud voice. Initially, the right ear's message contains a male voice reading a coherent passage, but this is then replaced by the same voice reading a sequence of random words. The participant's name is mentioned three times at various points within the right ear's message.
C
Memory assistance methods that utilize existing memories improve the number of ways something can be ___________. Question options: encoded but not recalled forgotten encoded and recalled recalled but not encoded
C
Movement facilitates perception when reaching to grasp an object by which of the following? Question options: Comparing expected changes in position to actual changes in position. Using your hand as a size reference to infer the size or distance of the object. Allowing you to close your eyes and imagine the object. Comparing expected force needed to grasp or move an object to actual force required.
C
Moving your head or body to get a different view of an object can help resolve perceptual ambiguity by... Question options: removing the object from your field of view. giving you longer to consider the object and recall any potentially forgotten features (like its original color). providing additional information, in this case, a comparison between the expected object shapes from different points of view. giving hierarchies of feature detectors longer to compute a representation.
C
Patients who have suffered damage to the occipital-parietal pathway (the "where" system) will have difficulties with which of the following tasks? Question options: visually identifying a toothbrush on the counter in front of them describing the function of the toothbrush without touching it reaching in the correct direction to retrieve the toothbrush knowing how to use the toothbrush once they have retrieved it
C
The idea of a "cognitive budget" is used several times in this chapter. Which of the following statements is NOT true of the "cognitive budget"? Question options: Tasks may require fewer resources after practice. The budget contains task-specific and task-general resources. The budget can increase through practice. One can only perform multiple tasks if the sum of the tasks' demands do not exceed the budget.
C
When an event (temperature/pain experience) consistently activates a specific set of regions of the brain. What is said to be present? Question options: A Localized representation Cognitive diffusion A Neural Network Narrow Communication
C
Which of the following is not a method used in behaviorism Question options: Operant conditioning. Observing how behavior changes when a stimulus is presented. Studying behavior to infer mental processes. Pavlovian conditioning.
C
Which of the following is the most likely explanation for the light-from-above assumption? Question options: Retinal organization. Conflict between direct and indirect visual pathways. Our exposure to physical regularities in the natural world. Integration of top-down and bottom-up processing streams.
C
A response threshold is the Question options: exposure duration for which a word must be displayed tachistoscopically for a particular participant to perceive it. number of correct responses required in order for a participant to perform above average on a particular task. amount of certainty or conviction a participant expresses when selecting a particular response. activation level at which a response occurs.
D
A woman is sitting in her kitchen and sees the two ends of an egg carton sticking out from behind a box of pancake mix on the kitchen counter. According to the Gestalt principle of Good Continuity, this woman knows that the object that she sees sticking out from behind the box of pancake mix is in fact a carton of eggs because... Question options: Pancakes and eggs are both usually eaten during breakfast. She is using her conscious knowledge of the environment to infer what the object might be. She remembered seeing a whole egg carton there earlier and the most continuous memory would be a whole carton. A whole egg carton is more likely than pieces of an egg carton.
D
Binding is the process by which different features are combined into: Question options: A preattentive feature combination. A feature dictionary, ready to define the characteristics of an object. A restricted view of only the selected item. A unified perception of an object.
D
Change blindness demonstrates that Question options: perception leads to attention. attention cannot be divided. changes in a scene are easily detected. attention is not sufficient for perception.
D
Donders and Ebbinghaus worked in the 1800s, long before the cognitive revolution. Why could we still consider Donders and Ebbinghaus cognitive psychologists? Question options: They were the first to use the word cognitive. They both used measures of behavior to indirectly study mental processes. They both had fine beards and measured temperaments. They both used introspection to study the mind.
D
Due to one's previous knowledge of a language, the phenomenon of speech segmentation occurs and that person is able to tell when one word ends and the next begins, ultimately allowing for fluent conversation with another. Predicting a word using knowledge of the broader world represents_________. Question options: Both top-down and bottom-up processing Neither bottom-up nor top-down processing Bottom-up processing Top-down processing
D
Generative note taking is: Question options: Generating questions after lecture from your notes. Self generating flash cards from material covered during lecture. Taking very careful, word-for-word, notes during lecture. Summarizing, paraphrasing, and concept mapping during lecture.
D
H.M. provides an illustration for which major theme of the chapter? Introspection is not sufficient evidence in and of itself. Memory is not very important. Damage to a small part of the brain can have a negligible effect on behavior. Cognition is interested in mental processes, as well as activities that depend on these processes.
D
If a person recently lost their vision. Is the visual system in their brain able to engage in any of the following? Question options: Both top-down and bottom-up processing None of the above Bottom-up processing Top-down processing
D
It seems inefficient to need to rely on so many different cues for depth perception. Why, then, do we have so many disparate cues? Question options: We use different cues in different situations. We are born with the ability to use some cues, but others have to be learned. Although we have many cues, they are all served by the same neural area, which is efficient. Some of the cues are always more accurate than other cues.
D
Milner and Goodale concluded there is a difference between vision for perception and vision for action because patient D.F., who had a lesion in her ventral stream, struggled when asked to hold up a card at the same orientation as a mail slot but... Question options: perceived the card as already mailed. acted as if she knew the orientation of the slot. could described the orientation of the slot verbally. placed the card in the slot flawlessly.
D
Pick the best description of a mind: Question options: A series of images, ordered to allow us to follow paths to food sources and remember who our friends are. The mind is an exact copy of the external world. Shifting connections between organs of the body, used to provide a road map for future choice. A representation of the external world, and actions that allow us to act on that representation.
D
Researchers have used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt portions of the healthy brain. When asking participants to search for a target, we expect TMS applied to the parietal lobe to Question options: have no effect on participants who have not suffered parietal damage. disrupt the search for both a target defined by a single feature (e.g., "Find the red shape") and a target defined by a conjunction of features (e.g., "Find the shape that is red and round"). disrupt the search for a target defined by a single feature (e.g., "Find the red shape"). disrupt the search for a target defined by a conjunction of features (e.g., "Find the shape that is red and round").
D
Studies looking at electrical activity in the brain suggest that the processing steps for attended stimuli and unattended stimuli are: Question options: distinguishable for only 1 millisecond after stimuli presentation. distinguishable, although the exact time at which these two inputs differ is unknown. indistinguishable. distinguishable around 80 milliseconds after stimuli presentation.
D
The Goulimaki Slate article cites researchers as saying that they are most concerned about multi-tasking: Question options: only when the tasks involve the same senses. when music is combined with fine visual discrimination. when it involves multiple digital sources of information. learning or doing school work. all of the time. It is always detrimental.
D
The ability to use selective attention to focus on a single object or thought comes at a price. __________ is the inability to describe stimuli that are not the focus of attention. Question options: Balint's syndrome ineffective binding non-attentive search inattentional blindness
D
The evidence from unilateral neglect patients and patients with normal attentional abilities suggests that Question options: object-based attention is more important than space-based attention. space-based attention is more important than object-based attention. attention is a perfect cognitive system. both space- and object-based attention are important in attention.
D
The recognition of faces Question options: differs from other forms of recognition in that face recognition appears not to be influenced by expectation or knowledge effects. resembles other forms of recognition in that our ability to recognize faces is relatively unimpaired by changes in viewing angle or orientation. seems to rely on the detection of features and geons, indicating that the recognition by components model can be applied to face recognition. is influenced by configurational factors, suggesting that a model based on feature detection will provide a poor explanation of face recognition.
D
The term "top-down processing" can be interchanged with the term "________ processing." Question options: stimulus-driven interactive repetition-priming concept-driven
D
This chapter describes in detail one way a feature net can be designed, but other designs may turn out to be preferable. For example, McClelland and Rumelhart's model makes use of all of the following statements EXCEPT Question options: connections allowing detectors at one level in the network to influence detectors at lower levels. inhibitory connections among the detectors. connections allowing detectors at one level in the network to influence other detectors at the same level. the elimination of feature detectors, relying instead on geon detectors.
D
What is a potential downside to the processing of parallel visual streams? Question options: The streams may not process information at the same rate and so produce results at different times. If a stream is busy processing information in one part of your visual field it cannot process similar information in another part. Streams sometimes compete for common processing resources resulting in illusions. It can be difficult to associate an object in one stream with the same object represented in another stream.
D
Which cognitive neuroscience method and description of how it studies mental processing and representations is incorrect? Question options: Neuropsychology: observing dysfunction associated with brain lesions. Neurophysiology: recording from single neurons in the brain. Neurophysiology: recording from many individual neurons in the brain. Neuropsychology: observing dysfunction only when a double dissociation is present. Brain imaging: imaging the structure of the brain. Brain imaging: imaging the function in the brain.
D
Which of the following statements about Phineus Gage is FALSE? Question options: A rod went through his face and head, removing part of his frontal lobe. He was able to perform basic cognitive tasks (talking, remembering, etc.) after his trauma. His personality changed after his trauma. He had Capgras syndrome.
D
Which of the following statements about association cortex is FALSE? Question options: These areas of the brain are involved in higher-level sensory processing. These areas contain specialized subregions. There are association areas for both sensory and motor areas. The visual association cortex is located in the subcortical parts of the brain.
D
Which of the following would be considered a benefit of a feature net? Question options: Errors are impossible. New information will not affect past organization of the net. slow, but cautious, processing flexibility to deal with unclear inputs
D
Why do occlusion or blurring make object detection difficult? Question options: Blurring is often used in computer vision to aid object recognition. An object cannot be reached if it is hidden. They add information and therefore create ambiguity. They reduce the amount of information available to recognize an object.
D
Why was Analytical Introspection abandoned as a method to study the mind? Question options: It yielded no useful insights. Because introspection focused on behavior rather than consciousness. Results from introspection were highly variable and hard to test. It seemed silly to train people to say what they were thinking.
D
The auditory cortex follows the principle of contralateral control. Thus, the Question options: right temporal lobe receives most of its input from the right ear. right temporal lobe receives most of its input from the left ear. information received by the right temporal lobe depends on whether the listener favors his or her right or left ear. right temporal lobe receives equal input from both ears.
b
Cognitive processes are NOT necessary for which daily activity?
breathing
What does MRI stand for? Question options: Myoglobin Resonance Imaging Magnetic Repetition Imaging MagnetoResistance Imaging Magnetic Resonance Imaging
d
