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?