PSY 322 Practice Multiple Choice Q's
The first place in the cerebral cortex where visual information is received
Occipital lobe
Axon
Action potential travels along the
Good figure
"Every stimulus pattern is seen in such a way that the resulting structure is as simple as possible" refers to which Gestalt law?
Sensory store, Filter, Detector, Memory
Broadbent's filter model (the stages of info. processing occur in what order)
Make a decision about the stimulus
By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment as indicating how long it took to
size constancy
Charlene sees her boyfriend across campus and waves. Even though the image he projects on her retina from the distance is small, Charlene does not perceive him to have shrunk at all. Instead she perceives him as far away because of
Brain imaging has made it possible to:
Determine which areas of the brain are involved in different cognitive processes
Shadowing
In a dichotic listening experiment, _________ refers to the procedure that is used to force participants to pay attention to a specific message among competing messages.
Observable behavior
John Watson believed that psychology should focus on the study of
Broca's area
Josiah is trying to speak to his wife, but his speech is very slow and labored. Josiah may have damage to his
top-down processing
Perceiving machines are used by the US postal service to read the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address, because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses most unlikely because of
Inborn programming
Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky notes that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded language development is
likelihood principle
Theory of unconscious inference includes
selective attention
When sam listens to his girlfriend Susan in the restaurant and ignores other people's conversations, he is engaged in the process of
Three-letter nonsense words
Which of the following stimuli were used in Ebbinghaus's "memory" experiment discussed in your text?
tasks are well practiced
Automatic processing occurs when: