PSY 316 UNIT 1 EXAM QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Which statement did not contribute to the cognitive revolution in the 1950s? - Answers -
Animal learning in a laboratory setting helped separate our understanding of how our
minds and behaviors work.
The way people's bodies interact with their environment and how they influence their
thought processes is known as _______ and awareness of our own thoughts,
knowledge, and insight is ________ . - Answers - Embodiment; Metacognition
T or F: A cognitive researcher wants to create a graph to examine the accuracy of
remembering words on a list between young and older adults. The independent variable
would be the accuracy of the words. - Answers - True
T or F: A cognitive psychologist is interested in creating a graph to examine students'
response times (i.e., in milliseconds) when answering three different group sizes of
multiplication problems (e.g., small 2 × 3, medium 3 × 8, large 7 × 9). Here, response
times are the dependent variable. - Answers - True
Cognitive Science - Answers - The interdisciplinary study of thought, language, and the
brain
Cognition - Answers - all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
Cognitive Psychology - Answers - The study of human memory and mental processes
Memory - Answers - mental process of acquiring and retaining information
PET scan - Answers - isotopes injected in the blood to provide a visual display of brain
activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a
given task
EEG - Answers - Electrodes on a person's scalp that records the electrical activity of the
brain
fMRI - Answers - A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity by
comparing successive MRI scans.
CT scan - Answers - a series of x-ray 3-D photos that provide images of the structures
of the brain
, In alphabetical order, the four major lobes of the brain are: - Answers - frontal
occipital
parietal
temporal
contralaterality - Answers - The receptive and control centers for one side of the body
are in the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
prosopagnosia - Answers - The type of agnosia in which people have difficulty
recognizing faces
sustained attention (or vigilance) - Answers - Maintaining attention for infrequent events
over long periods of time
action slip - Answers - the execution of an unintended, but more automatic, action in the
place of an intended, and less automatic, action.
dorsal pathway of visual information - Answers - determines "where" things are in space
ventral pathway of visual information - Answers - determines "what" things are.
saccade - Answers - A rapid movement of the eyes
fixation - Answers - a brief pause of the eyes
functionalism - Answers - William James started psychology's 2nd school of thought in
which researchers study the purpose of consciousness and how it adapts
The textbook's examples of "Thinking about thinking", such as answering the question
"Does a robin have wings?", informs us that... - Answers - mental events can occur very
quickly with little conscious awareness.
reductionism - Answers - Attempting to understand complex events by breaking them
down into their components
Hermann Von Ebbinghaus - Answers - credited with developing the first objective
method for studying memory.
Long-term potentiation - Answers - is the strengthening of connection between neurons.
Behaviorism redefined psychology to be the scientific study of... - Answers - observable
behaviors.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers - the "father of psychology" because he established the first
psychology laboratory in 1879.
ANSWERS
Which statement did not contribute to the cognitive revolution in the 1950s? - Answers -
Animal learning in a laboratory setting helped separate our understanding of how our
minds and behaviors work.
The way people's bodies interact with their environment and how they influence their
thought processes is known as _______ and awareness of our own thoughts,
knowledge, and insight is ________ . - Answers - Embodiment; Metacognition
T or F: A cognitive researcher wants to create a graph to examine the accuracy of
remembering words on a list between young and older adults. The independent variable
would be the accuracy of the words. - Answers - True
T or F: A cognitive psychologist is interested in creating a graph to examine students'
response times (i.e., in milliseconds) when answering three different group sizes of
multiplication problems (e.g., small 2 × 3, medium 3 × 8, large 7 × 9). Here, response
times are the dependent variable. - Answers - True
Cognitive Science - Answers - The interdisciplinary study of thought, language, and the
brain
Cognition - Answers - all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
Cognitive Psychology - Answers - The study of human memory and mental processes
Memory - Answers - mental process of acquiring and retaining information
PET scan - Answers - isotopes injected in the blood to provide a visual display of brain
activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a
given task
EEG - Answers - Electrodes on a person's scalp that records the electrical activity of the
brain
fMRI - Answers - A technique for revealing blood flow and, therefore, brain activity by
comparing successive MRI scans.
CT scan - Answers - a series of x-ray 3-D photos that provide images of the structures
of the brain
, In alphabetical order, the four major lobes of the brain are: - Answers - frontal
occipital
parietal
temporal
contralaterality - Answers - The receptive and control centers for one side of the body
are in the opposite hemisphere of the brain.
prosopagnosia - Answers - The type of agnosia in which people have difficulty
recognizing faces
sustained attention (or vigilance) - Answers - Maintaining attention for infrequent events
over long periods of time
action slip - Answers - the execution of an unintended, but more automatic, action in the
place of an intended, and less automatic, action.
dorsal pathway of visual information - Answers - determines "where" things are in space
ventral pathway of visual information - Answers - determines "what" things are.
saccade - Answers - A rapid movement of the eyes
fixation - Answers - a brief pause of the eyes
functionalism - Answers - William James started psychology's 2nd school of thought in
which researchers study the purpose of consciousness and how it adapts
The textbook's examples of "Thinking about thinking", such as answering the question
"Does a robin have wings?", informs us that... - Answers - mental events can occur very
quickly with little conscious awareness.
reductionism - Answers - Attempting to understand complex events by breaking them
down into their components
Hermann Von Ebbinghaus - Answers - credited with developing the first objective
method for studying memory.
Long-term potentiation - Answers - is the strengthening of connection between neurons.
Behaviorism redefined psychology to be the scientific study of... - Answers - observable
behaviors.
Wilhelm Wundt - Answers - the "father of psychology" because he established the first
psychology laboratory in 1879.
