PSYC 2700 FINALE EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Select the statement that BEST explains the early behaviourist approach: - Answers -
All mental functions are impenetrable. Scientists should only focus on response and
stimulus pairings and ignore any mental operations.
In information processing, the amount of information contained within a given message
is thought to be: - Answers - Inversely proportional to the probability that a particular will
occur.
Which of the following is NOT a property of introspection: - Answers - Objective
Properties of Introspection - Answers - -Individual thoughts/perspectives
-Subjective
-Non-statistical
Which of the following types of neuropsychological evidence are used by cognitive
psychologists: - Answers - All neuropsychological evidence can be used by cognitive
psychologists.
Sue and Sam are MA students that are trying to improve their reading skills by taking an
online speed-reading course. They have decided to try different course to see which
one works better. Through the miracle of modern technology you have obtained the
number of words they can read AND the time it took them to read the words.
Which of these results avoids a speed-accuracy trade-off? - Answers - Sue can read
400 words in 90 seconds and Sam can read 500 words in 60 seconds
A professor is trying to make a quiz that can accurately assess his students' abilities. He
uses two question formats (multiple choice and short answer) with two subjects
(cognition history and cognitive operations). After several weeks of testing, he obtains
the following graph and wants to determine the difficulty of each type of problem.
Which BEST describes the results? - Answers - Multiple choice cognition history
questions are the hardest as well as short answer cognitive operation questions.
In the Brown-Petersen task: - Answers - Participants are given a set of items to
remember and must count backwards for a given interval of time.
A Just Noticeable Difference (JND) is obtained when: - Answers - the difference
between two stimuli is detected 50% of the time by a participant
, The difficulty with a local account of cognitive function in neuroscience is - Answers -
processing can be distributed
The units in a connectionist model are describe as - Answers - Nodes that have two
discrete states which are adjusted by feedback
Gibson's Theory of Ecological Optics requires that - Answers - information that is
gathered from the external world can be directly used in order to guide action
The difficulty with accepting the Muller-Lyer illusion is that: - Answers - environmental
regularities in different cultures bias the perceptual system
Which of the following are effects that support the constructivist claim that context and
prior experience influence perception? - Answers - frequency effects, similarity effects,
and semantic effects
Divided attention requires a participant to - Answers - The correct answer is: attend to
multiple stimulus dimensions and/or stimuli in multiple modalities.
According to Sternberg (2003) how many types of attention are there? - Answers -
Three. Selective Attention, Attentional Capture, Divided Attention.
Figure:
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In the accompanying figure, top-down and bottom-up processing allow us to: - Answers
- The answers hinges on the order to "top-down" and "bottom-up" as well as
"respectively".
In terms of long-term memory (top-down), only the first "H" looks like an H (i.e., the
surrounding context of the "H" in CHT make it look like an A; think back to the
interaction activation model). In terms of bottom-up processing, the "H" in cat looks like
a H. Here, you need to consider the individual features of the letter as well as the LTM
information regarding words.
The correct answer is: understand that the symbol represents an 'A' in the second
stimulus and a 'H' in the first stimulus, respectively.
The Stroop effect occurs because: - Answers - reading words is an automatic process
whereas naming the colours of words is a controlled process, which causes interference
between the two processes
The process of using goals and expectations to influence perception is known as
________. - Answers - top-down processing.
ANSWERS
Select the statement that BEST explains the early behaviourist approach: - Answers -
All mental functions are impenetrable. Scientists should only focus on response and
stimulus pairings and ignore any mental operations.
In information processing, the amount of information contained within a given message
is thought to be: - Answers - Inversely proportional to the probability that a particular will
occur.
Which of the following is NOT a property of introspection: - Answers - Objective
Properties of Introspection - Answers - -Individual thoughts/perspectives
-Subjective
-Non-statistical
Which of the following types of neuropsychological evidence are used by cognitive
psychologists: - Answers - All neuropsychological evidence can be used by cognitive
psychologists.
Sue and Sam are MA students that are trying to improve their reading skills by taking an
online speed-reading course. They have decided to try different course to see which
one works better. Through the miracle of modern technology you have obtained the
number of words they can read AND the time it took them to read the words.
Which of these results avoids a speed-accuracy trade-off? - Answers - Sue can read
400 words in 90 seconds and Sam can read 500 words in 60 seconds
A professor is trying to make a quiz that can accurately assess his students' abilities. He
uses two question formats (multiple choice and short answer) with two subjects
(cognition history and cognitive operations). After several weeks of testing, he obtains
the following graph and wants to determine the difficulty of each type of problem.
Which BEST describes the results? - Answers - Multiple choice cognition history
questions are the hardest as well as short answer cognitive operation questions.
In the Brown-Petersen task: - Answers - Participants are given a set of items to
remember and must count backwards for a given interval of time.
A Just Noticeable Difference (JND) is obtained when: - Answers - the difference
between two stimuli is detected 50% of the time by a participant
, The difficulty with a local account of cognitive function in neuroscience is - Answers -
processing can be distributed
The units in a connectionist model are describe as - Answers - Nodes that have two
discrete states which are adjusted by feedback
Gibson's Theory of Ecological Optics requires that - Answers - information that is
gathered from the external world can be directly used in order to guide action
The difficulty with accepting the Muller-Lyer illusion is that: - Answers - environmental
regularities in different cultures bias the perceptual system
Which of the following are effects that support the constructivist claim that context and
prior experience influence perception? - Answers - frequency effects, similarity effects,
and semantic effects
Divided attention requires a participant to - Answers - The correct answer is: attend to
multiple stimulus dimensions and/or stimuli in multiple modalities.
According to Sternberg (2003) how many types of attention are there? - Answers -
Three. Selective Attention, Attentional Capture, Divided Attention.
Figure:
https://culearn.carleton.ca/moodle/pluginfile.php/1595311/question/questiontext/134948
0/6/1147074/THECAT.JPG
In the accompanying figure, top-down and bottom-up processing allow us to: - Answers
- The answers hinges on the order to "top-down" and "bottom-up" as well as
"respectively".
In terms of long-term memory (top-down), only the first "H" looks like an H (i.e., the
surrounding context of the "H" in CHT make it look like an A; think back to the
interaction activation model). In terms of bottom-up processing, the "H" in cat looks like
a H. Here, you need to consider the individual features of the letter as well as the LTM
information regarding words.
The correct answer is: understand that the symbol represents an 'A' in the second
stimulus and a 'H' in the first stimulus, respectively.
The Stroop effect occurs because: - Answers - reading words is an automatic process
whereas naming the colours of words is a controlled process, which causes interference
between the two processes
The process of using goals and expectations to influence perception is known as
________. - Answers - top-down processing.
