Memory and Cognition - Quizzes (1-3) Bowen

Brain

Perception takes place in our

Poor metacognition

Sally believes that she understand the material for the test really well because when she reads the textbook all the concepts feel familiar. This is an example of what?

Inattentional blindness

The "gorilla" video we watched in class demonstrated

It is purposeful and reasoned

Which is true of critical thinking?

Frontal lobe

Which lobe is blue?

Parietal lobe

Which lobe is yellow?

Reliability

Which of the following is not part of the CRAAP test for assessing sources of information?

Analytic Introspection

Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?

Testing yourself on the material

You are studying for your Memory & Cognition test, which study method would be most effective?

Rate of neuron firing

If the intensity of a stimulus that is presented to a touch receptor is increased, this increases the

Selective

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

Hands free devices offer no safety advantage

Driving experiments discussed in class suggested

Dictionary unit

According to Treisman's attenuation model, what contains the words, stored in memory, each of which has a threshold for being activated?

Cognition

Attention, perception, memory, and decision making are all types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of

Dichotic listening tasks

Early models of attention were focused on explaining findings from which experiment?

We perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli based on past experiences

Helmholtz's likelihood principle states that

Plays a causal role in both perception and imagery

Kosslyn's transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) experiment on brain activation that occurs in response to imagery found that the brain activity in the visual cortex

False

Machine perception is better that human perception when images are blurry

Inferred from behavior like reaction time

Mental events and cognitive processes cannot be measured directly by cognitive psychologists, they have to be

A relationship between scanning time and distance on the image

Mental scanning experiments found

Feature detectors

Neurons that respond to specific qualities of objects, such as orientation, movement, and length are called

Classical Conditioning

The Little Albert experiment involving the rat and the loud noise is an example of which of the following types of experiments?

Dendrites

The branch-like projections that extend from the cell body of neurons that receive information are called

Cake--mug

The conceptual peg hypothesis would predict enhanced memory for which word pair?

Bottom-up

What type of processing starts with the environmental energy from the stimulus and does not require any specific knowledge or experience to create the perception of the stimulus?

Cognitive neuroscience

The investigation of the neural processes underlying cognition in healthy, active brains is

Spatial layout

The propositional approach to mental imagery may use any of the following EXCEPT

Retrieval practice

Using flashcards to test yourself is known as what?

Invariance

Viewpoint ________ is the ability to recognize the same object even if it is seen from different perspectives.

Broadbent's filter model

What model of attention is this?