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Question 1 of 30
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Donders' main reason for doing his choice reaction time experiment was to study
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A.perception
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B.attention
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C.decision making
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D.memory
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Question 2 of 30
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A common feature of both a reaction time experiment and an operant conditioning experiment is
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A.the presentation of positive reinforcers
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B.the measurement of behavior
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C.the inference of mental processes
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D.all of these are common features
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Question 3 of 30
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Who developed the concept of the cognitive map?
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A.Watson
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B.Ebbinghaus
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C.Wundt
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D.Tolman
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Question 4 of 30
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Who proposed that children's language development was caused by imitation and reinforcement?
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A.Noam Chomsky
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B.John Watson
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C.Keller Breland
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D.B. F. Skinner
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Question 5 of 30
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The field that studies how to make machines behave in ways that are intelligent if a human were so behaving is known as
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A.cognitive psychology
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B.behaviorism
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C.artificial intelligence
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D.flow diagramming
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Question 6 of 30
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The neuron doctrine is
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A.in agreement with nerve net theory
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B.unrelated to nerve net theory
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C.synonymous with nerve net theory
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D.in disagreement with nerve net theory
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Question 7 of 30
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Action potentials occur in the
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A.cell body
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B.synapse
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C.neurotransmitters
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D.axon
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Question 8 of 30
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Which part of the brain is important for touch?
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A.Occipital lobe
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B.Hippocampus
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C.Temporal lobe
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D.Parietal lobe
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Question 9 of 30
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The layer of neurons that lines the back of the eye is called the
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A.retina
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B.grandmother cell
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C.reference electrode
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D.feature detector
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Question 10 of 30
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Most cognitive psychologists_________the notion of a grandmother cell.
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A.accept
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B.are uncertain about
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C.reject
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D.are actively investigating
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Question 11 of 30
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Which of the following is not a geon?
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A.Cylinder
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B.Pyramid
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C.Cone
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D.Circle
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Question 12 of 30
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The process by which small objects become perceptually grouped to form larger objects is
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A.conjunction
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B.perceptual organization
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C.perceptual discriminability
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D.perceptual fusion
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Question 13 of 30
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Palmer's experiment, in which he asked people to identify objects in a kitchen, showed how ______ can affect perception.
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A.illusory
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B.context
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C.naming association
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D.attention
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Question 14 of 30
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The landmark discrimination problem is more difficult to do if you have damage to your______ lobe.
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A.frontal
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B.temporal
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C.parietal
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D.occipital
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Question 15 of 30
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The perception pathway corresponds to the _________pathway, while the action pathway corresponds to the _______pathway.
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A.where; what
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B.what; where
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C.size; distance
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D.distance; size
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Question 16 of 30
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Selection of the attended message in the Broadbent model occurs based on the
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A.meaning of the message
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B.physical characteristics of the message
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C.physical characteristics of the message plus the meaning, if necessary
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D.listener's ability to mentally block the unattended message from getting in
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Question 17 of 30
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A high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that
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A.a weak signals can cause activation
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B.a strong signal to cause activation
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C.all signals cause activation
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D.no signals cause activation
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Question 18 of 30
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The ability to pay attention to, or carry out, two or more different tasks simultaneously is known as
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A.divided attention
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B.dual attention
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C.divergent tasking
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D.selective attention
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Question 19 of 30
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The Stroop effect demonstrates
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A.how automatic processing can interfere with intended processing.
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B.a failure of divided attention
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C.the ease of performing a low-load task
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D.support for object-based attention
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Question 20 of 30
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Controlled processing involves
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A.close attention
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B.ease in performing parallel tasks
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C.overlearning of tasks
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D.few cognitive resources
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Question 21 of 30
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The use of an eye tracker can help reveal the shifting of one's _______ attention.
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A.overt
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B.covert
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C.divided
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D.dichotic
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Question 22 of 30
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When we reach a scene, initial fixations are most likely to occur on _____areas.
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A.high-load
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B.low-load
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C.high-saliency
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D.low-salience
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Question 23 of 30
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A property of control processes in the modal model of memory is that they
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A.do not require attention
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B.may differ from one task to another
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C.are performed without conscious awareness
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D.are difficult to modify
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Question 24 of 30
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Which of the following represents the most effective chunking of the digit sequence 14929111776?
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A.14 929 111 776
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B.149 29111 776
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C.14 92 91 117 76
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D.1492 911 1776
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If you remember something in terms of its meaning, the type of encoding you are using is
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A.semantic
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B.acoustic
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C.visual
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D.iconic
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One function of ________ is controlling the suppression of irrelevant information.
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A.sensory memory
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B.the phonological loop
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C.articulatory suppression
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D.the central executive
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Question 27 of 30
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Types of declarative memory are _____ and ______ memory.
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A.semantic; implicit
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B.implicit; episodic
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C.episodic; semantic
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D.procedural; episodic
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Question 28 of 30
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The multiple choice question is an example of a ______test.
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A.recall
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B.recognition
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C.word-completion
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D.personal semantic memory
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Question 29 of 30
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Acquiring information and transforming it into memory is
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A.state-dependent learning
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B.encoding
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C.memory consolidation
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D.transfer-appropriate processing
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Question 30 of 30
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The principle that we learn information together with its context is known as
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A.memory consolidation
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B.repetition priming
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C.encoding specificity
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D.a self-reference effect
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