History
of Cognitive Psychology/Iconic Memory
Aristotle's doctrine of association
suggests that mental life can be explained
in terms of ideas, and the associations
between them. What were the three
critical ways in which he thought
things could be associated?
a. contiguity, similarity, common
fate
b. similarity, connectedness, contrast
c. contrast, contiguity, similarity
d. familiarity, simplicity, continuation
"Perceiving Machines" are
used by the U.S. 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 likely because of
a. bottom-up processing.
b. top-down processing.
c. template matching
d. feature recognition.
Why do we have sensory memory?
a. allows us to select pertinent
information to which we wish to attend
b. enables the understanding of the
flow of language
c. allows for a stable and continuous
view of the environment
d. all of the above
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Attention: Bottleneck and Capacity
When Sam listens to his girlfriend
Susan in the restaurant and ignores
other people's conversations, he is
engaged in the process of ____ attention.
a. low load
b. divided
c. cocktail party
d. selective
Broadbent's "Filter Model"
of selective attention proposes that
the filter identifies the attended
message based on
a. meaning.
b. modality.
c. physical characteristics.
d. higher order characteristics.
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Attention:
Automaticity, Visual search
Which of the following is not traditionally
considered to be one of the four kinds
of
attention?
a. selective
b. vigilance
c. categorical
d. divided
The Stroop effect demonstrates
a. how automatic processing can interfere
with intended processing.
b. a failure of divided attention.
c. the ease of performing a low-load
task.
d. support for object-based attention.
A difference between a heuristic
and an algorithm is
a. algorithms usually take longer
to carry out than heuristics.
b. algorithms are usually less systematic
than heuristics.
c. heuristics do not result in a correct
solution every time as algorithms
do.
d. algorithms provide "best guess"
solutions to problems more so than
heuristics.
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Visual attention basics, Object/Space attention
If you are standing in line at a movie and in your periphery, you detect someone waving at you, this would most likely lead to a _______ and _________ shift of attention
a. endogenous, covert
b. endogenous, overt
c. exogenous, covert
d. exogenous, overt
That you are slower to return your attention to a location that you have previously fixated is referred to as ____________, and is a mechanism that is thought to aid _______________
a. inhibition of return, visual search
b. negative priming, reading
c. negative priming, visual search
d. inhibition of return, reading
How do cuing effects brought on by peripheral cues differ from cuing effects brought on by central cues?
a. central cuing effects emerge faster
b. central cuing effects are larger
c. central cues lead to inhibition of return whereas peripheral cues do not
d. peripheral cuing effects are larger
Studies which have examined object-based attention, have provided us with evidence that
a. attention selects locations
b. attention selects objects
c. attention stays with an object even when it moves in space
d. all of the above
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Introduction to
Perception
The inverse projection problem states that ambiguity occurs because the image on the retina
a. can be caused by an infinite number of different objects
b. appears magnified compared to its actual size
c. is inverted compared to its actual orientation
d. can only be viewed from one angle
There are two different neural correlates of perception, the _________ stream which provides “what” information (perception) and the __________ stream, which provides “where” information (action input)
a. visual, motor
b. motor, visual
c. dorsal, ventral
d. ventral, dorsal
Which of the following is NOT one of the original Gestalt laws of perceptual organization
a. similarity
b. good continuation
c. uniform connectedness
d. common fate
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Auditory Perception and Cognition
The graphical depiction of sound stimuli is given on a:
a. Spirograph
b. Pictograph
c. Anagram
d. Spectrograph
What quality of a sound does the frequency of a sound wave dictate?
a. Loudness
b. Timbre
c. Pitch
d. Duration
Interaural time difference, the differnece in time between when a
sound reaches one ear versus the other, is a ___________ cue for sound
localization, as is ___________.
a. monaural, interaural level difference
b. binaural, interaural level difference
c. monaural, interaural wavelength discrepancy
d. binaural, interaural wavelength discrepancy
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Visual
illusions and what they tell us
Color afterimages are attributable to
a. orientation-sensitive cells in the striate cortex
b. fatigued cells in the retina
c. lateral inhibition
d. the contrast between the perceived color and the background
Both the hollow mask and Margaret Thatcher illusions are attributable to
a. change blindness
b. the context in which the stimuli are presented
c. our knowledge/expertise regarding how faces should look
d. a failure to activate the fusiform face area
The “ball in a box” shadow illusion in which the trajectory of the ball seems to change as the trajectory of the shadow changes is an example of how ____________ influences perception
a. context
b. action
c. attention
d. don't choose d
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Introduction to
memory: modal memory, STM, LTM
The primacy effect is attributed to
a. a type of rehearsal which improves memory for all items in a list
b. recall of information still active in STM
c. forgetting of early items in a list as they are replaced by later items
d. recall of information stored in LTM
The recency effect is attributed to
a. a type of rehearsal which improves memory for all items in a list
b. recall of information still active in STM
c. forgetting of early items in a list as they are replaced by later items
d. recall of information stored in LTM
Prospective memory is
a. memory for actually experienced events
b. memory for action
c. memory for facts
d. memory for tasks that need to be carried out in the future
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