PSYC2480 Final Exam Graded A+
A child has perfected the skill of tuning out their parent's lectures about doing dishes
while still being able to text friends and listen to music on their phone. What concept is
the child displaying?
a. Kuhn's paradigm shift
b. Tolman's cognitive map
c. Tulving's procedural memory
d. Broadbent's filter - ANSWER-Broadbent's filter
A graduate student is participating in a university research study inspired by the work of
Stephen Palmer. The study is likely focused on measuring the graduate student's level
of
- short term rehearsal
- contextual knowledge
- cognitive mapping
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER-Contextual knowledge
A hiker rounds a bend on their hike and sees a beautiful waterfall—which fires a large
number of neurons in their brain. The hiker's response to this stimulus is an example of
a. population coding
b. sparse coding
c. propoganosia
d. specificity coding - ANSWER-population coding
A nonhuman animal might learn how to navigate a maze through the use of
- savings curve
- analytic introspection
- cognitive map
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER-Cognitive map
A person is experiencing prosopagnosia. As such, we would expect this person to
- have limited intelligence
- show limited speech production
- inability to recognize faces
- not be able to see clearly - ANSWER-inability to recognize faces
A sales manager usually takes conference calls while driving home to keep up with
work in the office. Yesterday, the manager drove home through a snowstorm during a
conference call regarding a presentation for the next day. The following morning, the
sales manager forgot they had a presentation due and had to cancel a meeting. Which
of these terms best applies to why the sales manager forgot about the presentation that
was due?
a. peripheral vision
b. experience sampling
,c. attentional warping
d. automatic processing - ANSWER-automatic processing
A school cafeteria has 15 circular tables, with the students at each table talking and
laughing with each other. This scene can be used as a model to illustrate
- feature detection
- resting potential
- neural circuits
- population coding - ANSWER-neural circuits
A student is attempting to listen to a conversation from their friend while simultaneously
being alert for an expected text message from work. This example illustrates
a. divided attention
b. attentional capture
c. selective attention
d. distraction - ANSWER-divided attention
A student stared at the strange blob in the bottom of a bookbag until they realized that it
was a dried-up orange that must have fallen out of their lunch bag last winter. What part
of the student's brain helped them figure out what the strange object was?
a. parietal lobe
b. temporal lobe
c. hippocampus
d. amygdala - ANSWER-temporal lobe
A vegetable gardener is able to shell peas from their garden while watching TV because
shelling peas is a(an)
a. high load task
b. low load task
c. relevant task
d. inattention task - ANSWER-low load task
According to Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), where does the process of rehearsal take
place?
a. sensory memory
b. working memory
c. central executive
d. short-term memory - ANSWER-short term memory
According to Baddeley, the central executive controls
a. sensation
b. attention
c. rotation
d. preservation - ANSWER-attention
, According to Miller, which of these would be the shortest password that a person would
have difficulty remembering?
a. 5KBN37
b. 4LP91DMG
c. LOLOMGBTW
d. 73A8 - ANSWER-4LP91DMG
According to Stokes's model of activity-silent working memory, where is information
briefly held in memory?
a. sensory memory
b. the visual-spatial sketchpad
c. the central executive
d. a brief change in the connectivity of neurons in a network - ANSWER-d. a brief
change in the connectivity of neurons in a network
According to the activity-silent working memory model, neurons fire
a. at remembering and the synaptic state
b. at stimuli only
c. at remembering only
d. at stimulus input and remembering - ANSWER-at stimulus and remembering
Although each frame of a movie film has an image of people in a raft on water, an
audience watching the movie sees a group of people paddling and traveling down a
swift rushing river. From a Gestalt perspective, the movement of the people and water is
- apparent
- schematic
- inferred
- probable - ANSWER-apparent
As a student sat down to take a final exam in a history class, what did the student draw
upon to answer the 100 questions?
- sensory memory
- procedural memory
- long term memory
- episodic memory - ANSWER-long term memory
At this point in time, what is considered the primary function of the episodic buffer?
a. controlling attention
b. storing information
c. sorting information
d. controlling processes - ANSWER-storing information
Attentional warping involves which of these?
a. an expansion of brain maps
b. a switch to peripheral vision
c. an excess of daydreaming
A child has perfected the skill of tuning out their parent's lectures about doing dishes
while still being able to text friends and listen to music on their phone. What concept is
the child displaying?
a. Kuhn's paradigm shift
b. Tolman's cognitive map
c. Tulving's procedural memory
d. Broadbent's filter - ANSWER-Broadbent's filter
A graduate student is participating in a university research study inspired by the work of
Stephen Palmer. The study is likely focused on measuring the graduate student's level
of
- short term rehearsal
- contextual knowledge
- cognitive mapping
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER-Contextual knowledge
A hiker rounds a bend on their hike and sees a beautiful waterfall—which fires a large
number of neurons in their brain. The hiker's response to this stimulus is an example of
a. population coding
b. sparse coding
c. propoganosia
d. specificity coding - ANSWER-population coding
A nonhuman animal might learn how to navigate a maze through the use of
- savings curve
- analytic introspection
- cognitive map
- artificial intelligence - ANSWER-Cognitive map
A person is experiencing prosopagnosia. As such, we would expect this person to
- have limited intelligence
- show limited speech production
- inability to recognize faces
- not be able to see clearly - ANSWER-inability to recognize faces
A sales manager usually takes conference calls while driving home to keep up with
work in the office. Yesterday, the manager drove home through a snowstorm during a
conference call regarding a presentation for the next day. The following morning, the
sales manager forgot they had a presentation due and had to cancel a meeting. Which
of these terms best applies to why the sales manager forgot about the presentation that
was due?
a. peripheral vision
b. experience sampling
,c. attentional warping
d. automatic processing - ANSWER-automatic processing
A school cafeteria has 15 circular tables, with the students at each table talking and
laughing with each other. This scene can be used as a model to illustrate
- feature detection
- resting potential
- neural circuits
- population coding - ANSWER-neural circuits
A student is attempting to listen to a conversation from their friend while simultaneously
being alert for an expected text message from work. This example illustrates
a. divided attention
b. attentional capture
c. selective attention
d. distraction - ANSWER-divided attention
A student stared at the strange blob in the bottom of a bookbag until they realized that it
was a dried-up orange that must have fallen out of their lunch bag last winter. What part
of the student's brain helped them figure out what the strange object was?
a. parietal lobe
b. temporal lobe
c. hippocampus
d. amygdala - ANSWER-temporal lobe
A vegetable gardener is able to shell peas from their garden while watching TV because
shelling peas is a(an)
a. high load task
b. low load task
c. relevant task
d. inattention task - ANSWER-low load task
According to Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968), where does the process of rehearsal take
place?
a. sensory memory
b. working memory
c. central executive
d. short-term memory - ANSWER-short term memory
According to Baddeley, the central executive controls
a. sensation
b. attention
c. rotation
d. preservation - ANSWER-attention
, According to Miller, which of these would be the shortest password that a person would
have difficulty remembering?
a. 5KBN37
b. 4LP91DMG
c. LOLOMGBTW
d. 73A8 - ANSWER-4LP91DMG
According to Stokes's model of activity-silent working memory, where is information
briefly held in memory?
a. sensory memory
b. the visual-spatial sketchpad
c. the central executive
d. a brief change in the connectivity of neurons in a network - ANSWER-d. a brief
change in the connectivity of neurons in a network
According to the activity-silent working memory model, neurons fire
a. at remembering and the synaptic state
b. at stimuli only
c. at remembering only
d. at stimulus input and remembering - ANSWER-at stimulus and remembering
Although each frame of a movie film has an image of people in a raft on water, an
audience watching the movie sees a group of people paddling and traveling down a
swift rushing river. From a Gestalt perspective, the movement of the people and water is
- apparent
- schematic
- inferred
- probable - ANSWER-apparent
As a student sat down to take a final exam in a history class, what did the student draw
upon to answer the 100 questions?
- sensory memory
- procedural memory
- long term memory
- episodic memory - ANSWER-long term memory
At this point in time, what is considered the primary function of the episodic buffer?
a. controlling attention
b. storing information
c. sorting information
d. controlling processes - ANSWER-storing information
Attentional warping involves which of these?
a. an expansion of brain maps
b. a switch to peripheral vision
c. an excess of daydreaming
