PSY 352 UPDATED EXAMS TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔information-processing approach - ✔✔concept of psychology that describes the
mind as processing data through a sequence of stages.
✔✔artificial intelligence - ✔✔ability of a computer to perform tasks usually associated
with the human mind.
✔✔neuropsychology - ✔✔study of the behavior of people with brain damage.
✔✔electrophysiology - ✔✔measurement of electrical responses of the nervous system.
✔✔brain imaging - ✔✔technique that creates pictures of the brain.
✔✔Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔scientist who established the first laboratory of scientific
psychology
✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus - ✔✔psychologist who studied the quantitative measurement
of mental processes.
✔✔William James - ✔✔psychologist who wrote the first psychology textbook; some of
his observations are still valid today.
, ✔✔mind - ✔✔system that creates mental representations of the world and controls
mental functions.
✔✔Fransiscus Donders - ✔✔physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology
experiment.
✔✔cognition - ✔✔mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
✔✔Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and mental processes.
✔✔principle of good continuation - ✔✔idea that humans perceive two objects that
overlap each as a single, uninterrupted object.
✔✔principle of simplicity - ✔✔concept that every stimulus is perceived in its most
uncomplicated form.
✔✔principle of similarity - ✔✔idea that things that resemble each other appear to be
grouped together.
✔✔perception - ✔✔conscious experience that results from stimulation of the senses.
✔✔inverse projection problem - ✔✔task of determining the object that caused a
particular image on the retina.
✔✔viewpoint invariance - ✔✔ability to recognize an object seen from different outlooks.
✔✔bottom-up processing - ✔✔sequence of events that starts with information received
by the receptors.
✔✔top-down processing - ✔✔sequence of events that involves a person's knowledge or
expectations.
✔✔speech segmentation - ✔✔process of perceiving individual words within the
continuous flow of the language signal.
✔✔transitional probabilities - ✔✔likelihood that one speech sound will follow another
within a word.
✔✔likelihood principle - ✔✔perception of the object that is expected to have caused the
pattern of stimuli received.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔information-processing approach - ✔✔concept of psychology that describes the
mind as processing data through a sequence of stages.
✔✔artificial intelligence - ✔✔ability of a computer to perform tasks usually associated
with the human mind.
✔✔neuropsychology - ✔✔study of the behavior of people with brain damage.
✔✔electrophysiology - ✔✔measurement of electrical responses of the nervous system.
✔✔brain imaging - ✔✔technique that creates pictures of the brain.
✔✔Wilhelm Wundt - ✔✔scientist who established the first laboratory of scientific
psychology
✔✔Hermann Ebbinghaus - ✔✔psychologist who studied the quantitative measurement
of mental processes.
✔✔William James - ✔✔psychologist who wrote the first psychology textbook; some of
his observations are still valid today.
, ✔✔mind - ✔✔system that creates mental representations of the world and controls
mental functions.
✔✔Fransiscus Donders - ✔✔physiologist who performed the first cognitive psychology
experiment.
✔✔cognition - ✔✔mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making.
✔✔Cognitive Psychology - ✔✔scientific study of the mind and mental processes.
✔✔principle of good continuation - ✔✔idea that humans perceive two objects that
overlap each as a single, uninterrupted object.
✔✔principle of simplicity - ✔✔concept that every stimulus is perceived in its most
uncomplicated form.
✔✔principle of similarity - ✔✔idea that things that resemble each other appear to be
grouped together.
✔✔perception - ✔✔conscious experience that results from stimulation of the senses.
✔✔inverse projection problem - ✔✔task of determining the object that caused a
particular image on the retina.
✔✔viewpoint invariance - ✔✔ability to recognize an object seen from different outlooks.
✔✔bottom-up processing - ✔✔sequence of events that starts with information received
by the receptors.
✔✔top-down processing - ✔✔sequence of events that involves a person's knowledge or
expectations.
✔✔speech segmentation - ✔✔process of perceiving individual words within the
continuous flow of the language signal.
✔✔transitional probabilities - ✔✔likelihood that one speech sound will follow another
within a word.
✔✔likelihood principle - ✔✔perception of the object that is expected to have caused the
pattern of stimuli received.
