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