Exam 1 PSYC 230
Which of the following could be considered as always taking a "working vacation"?
Default mode network
Which of the following does NOT characterize the information processing (IP) approach to the study of cognition?
IP emphasizes stimulus-response relationships in cognitive processes.
Which of the following are the two main goals of models in Cognitive Psychology?
Organize data into a common scheme. Pose questions to be answered. both a and b.
If a word is identified more easily when it is in a sentence than when it is presented alone, then that would be an example of top-down processing.
True
Perception is NOT essential for improving empathy.
True
The empirical evidence from the "learning from lectures" experiment described during class supported the idea that students would remember more information from a lecture if they got an outline and diagram to use while taking notes (e.g. headings)
True
The gap between the end of a neuron's axon and the dendrites or cell body of another neuron is known as the synapse.
True
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of the mind is called
cognitive psychology.
___________________ A structural description or 'wiring diagram' of the network of elements and connections forming the human brain
connectome
Brain imaging has made it possible to
determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes.
The idea that specific cognitive functions activate many areas of the brain is known as
distributed representation.
The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called the
inverse projection problem.
________________________________ (two words) refers to knowledge of what a scene typically contains
scene schema
Henrow took a drink from a container marked "milk." Surprised, he quickly spit out the liquid because it turned out that the container was filled with orange juice instead. Henrow likes orange juice, so why did he have such a negative reaction to it? His response was most affected by
top-down processing.
Cognitive Behaviorism is the interdisciplinary study of the mind, with the goal to find ways to study and understand its inner workings.
False
Groups of neurons or structures that are connected within the nervous system are called neural neighborhoods.
False
_______________________ was an early alternative to structuralism that focused on how behavior interacts with the environment
Functionalism
Members of a security team are stationed on rooftops surrounding a large city plaza before a scheduled rally. Suddenly, three team members in different locations radio in to the command center, each stating that they have spotted a suspicious box on the ground with a pipe coming from the top. What enables the security team members to report seeing the same object despite being stationed on different rooftops?
Viewpoint invariance
