EXAM 4 PSY 300 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Which structure was not affected by surgery in H.M.?
Hippocampus
Entorhinal cortex
Amygdala
Temporal lobe
Cingulate gyrus - ✔✔
A person who is awake
is always vigilant.
is always fully aroused.
usually focuses on more than one voice at a time.
is not always attentive.
always has the same reaction times in the continuum of arousal. - ✔✔is not always attentive.
What a person pays attention to (is conscious of) is NOT
arbitrary.
dependent on what the individual is currently doing.
relevant to the individual's behavior.
effected by drugs or disease. - ✔✔arbitrary.
There are many things in the environment that we are not conscious of.
True
False - ✔✔True
,Conscious perception is a passive process.
True
False - ✔✔False
There are multiple states of consciousness.
True or false - ✔✔True
Anesthetics works by increasing inhibitory signaling or decreasing excitatory signaling.
True or False - ✔✔True
An example of an impaired or altered state of consciousness is
a coma.
All of the above
being under anesthesia.
deep sleep. - ✔✔All of the above
A central cue may cause _____ if the cue points to the correct location at the correct time.
Reaction time benefit
accuracy cost
Reaction time cost
inattentional blindness - ✔✔Reaction time benefit
The biased-competition model of attention states that the various sensory inputs are
integrated to form a single percept.
,taking turns controlling awareness.
coordinating together to produce the awareness.
competing to control behavior. - ✔✔competing to control behavior.
________ is the sum of electrical fields generated by neurons within a given area.
Neuron Gain
Local field potential
Sychronization
Population code - ✔✔Local field potential
The superior parietal areas in the intraparietal sulcus activate when spatial (where) oddballs are
presented in an experiment, whereas the inferior temporal cortex activates with the presentation
of a(n) ______ oddball.
Subject (who)
Time (when)
Object (what)
None of the above - ✔✔Object (what)
An experiment that used a man dressed in a gorilla suit walking amongst people passing a
basketball demonstrated
covert misdirection.
inattentional blindness.
exogenous attention.
, change blindness. - ✔✔inattentional blindness.
If a participant registers a change in stimulus and is also conscious of the change, the brain
should be
active in visual regions if the change is visual.
widely activated across multiple lobes.
unchanged.
active in auditory regions if the change is auditory. - ✔✔widely activated across multiple lobes.
Processing units called ensembles are comprised of
large populations of neurons.
a blockage in the brain.
two lobes of the brain.
two neurons. - ✔✔large populations of neurons.
While fixating on a central cross, an arrow located near the cross points to a box to the left of the
cross. Your eyes follow the arrow to the box. This is an example of:
a)
Exogenous attention
b)
A reaction time cost
c)
Endogenous attention
ANSWERS
Which structure was not affected by surgery in H.M.?
Hippocampus
Entorhinal cortex
Amygdala
Temporal lobe
Cingulate gyrus - ✔✔
A person who is awake
is always vigilant.
is always fully aroused.
usually focuses on more than one voice at a time.
is not always attentive.
always has the same reaction times in the continuum of arousal. - ✔✔is not always attentive.
What a person pays attention to (is conscious of) is NOT
arbitrary.
dependent on what the individual is currently doing.
relevant to the individual's behavior.
effected by drugs or disease. - ✔✔arbitrary.
There are many things in the environment that we are not conscious of.
True
False - ✔✔True
,Conscious perception is a passive process.
True
False - ✔✔False
There are multiple states of consciousness.
True or false - ✔✔True
Anesthetics works by increasing inhibitory signaling or decreasing excitatory signaling.
True or False - ✔✔True
An example of an impaired or altered state of consciousness is
a coma.
All of the above
being under anesthesia.
deep sleep. - ✔✔All of the above
A central cue may cause _____ if the cue points to the correct location at the correct time.
Reaction time benefit
accuracy cost
Reaction time cost
inattentional blindness - ✔✔Reaction time benefit
The biased-competition model of attention states that the various sensory inputs are
integrated to form a single percept.
,taking turns controlling awareness.
coordinating together to produce the awareness.
competing to control behavior. - ✔✔competing to control behavior.
________ is the sum of electrical fields generated by neurons within a given area.
Neuron Gain
Local field potential
Sychronization
Population code - ✔✔Local field potential
The superior parietal areas in the intraparietal sulcus activate when spatial (where) oddballs are
presented in an experiment, whereas the inferior temporal cortex activates with the presentation
of a(n) ______ oddball.
Subject (who)
Time (when)
Object (what)
None of the above - ✔✔Object (what)
An experiment that used a man dressed in a gorilla suit walking amongst people passing a
basketball demonstrated
covert misdirection.
inattentional blindness.
exogenous attention.
, change blindness. - ✔✔inattentional blindness.
If a participant registers a change in stimulus and is also conscious of the change, the brain
should be
active in visual regions if the change is visual.
widely activated across multiple lobes.
unchanged.
active in auditory regions if the change is auditory. - ✔✔widely activated across multiple lobes.
Processing units called ensembles are comprised of
large populations of neurons.
a blockage in the brain.
two lobes of the brain.
two neurons. - ✔✔large populations of neurons.
While fixating on a central cross, an arrow located near the cross points to a box to the left of the
cross. Your eyes follow the arrow to the box. This is an example of:
a)
Exogenous attention
b)
A reaction time cost
c)
Endogenous attention
