PSYCH 302 MIDTERM QUIZ REVIEW
Which of the following has never been a confound in conflict adaptation studies?
a. Mental rotation
b. Conflict monitoring
c. Feature repetitions
d. Contingency learning - Correct Answers -b. Conflict monitoring
While the stimuli in Experiment 1 of Schmidt & Weissman (2014) were __________, the
stimuli in Experiment 2 were ____________.
a. arrows, words
b. letters, colors
c. words, arrows
d. colors, letters - Correct Answers -a. arrows, words
Schmidt & Weissman (2014) argue that their methods for avoiding confounds when
studying the CSE
a. may be useful in future functional MRI studies of the CSE
b. All of the other choices
c. are better than other methods (e.g., modeling approaches)
d. can easily be adopted by other researchers - Correct Answers -b. All of the other
choices
A potential problem with employing arrows as stimuli in conflict adaptation tasks is that
a. None of the other answers
b. Arrows engender greater contingency learning than other types of stimuli.
c. One arrow (e.g., left) can always be rotated to look exactly like another arrow (e.g.,
right).
d. Arrows (e.g., left and right) are automatically associated with responses (e.g., left and
right). - Correct Answers -c. One arrow (e.g., left) can always be rotated to look exactly
like another arrow (e.g., right).
Which of the following was a limitation of the Schmidt & Weissman (2014) study?
a. It did not rule out temporal learning confounds.
b. It did not rule out feature repetition confounds.
c. It did not rule out contingency learning confounds.
, d. None of the other answers - Correct Answers -a. It did not rule out temporal learning
confounds.
According to the article by Plaxco (2010) that you just read, the most important rule to
follow when writing a journal article is to
a. cite other papers appropriately
b. make the writing clear and easy to read
c. carefully describe the methods in the Introduction section
d. include statistics in the Discussion section - Correct Answers -b. make the writing
clear and easy to read
a good place to speculate on the implications of your findings when you are writing a
scientific article is
a. the results
b. the introduction
c. the discussion
d. the abstract
e. the methods - Correct Answers -c. the discussion
While the purpose of the ___________ is to convince people to read your paper, the
purpose of the _________ is to describe your experiment in detail so that someone else
can reproduce your work.
a. Introduction, Methods
b. Results, Discussion
c. Discussion, Introduction
d. Methods, Results - Correct Answers -a. Introduction, Methods
The main purpose of the abstract is to convey:
a. statistics for significant results
b. Important references that were cited
c. statistics for significant results AND Important references that were cited
d. a brief, overall summary of a study - Correct Answers -d. a brief, overall summary of
a study
Details that another researcher would need to replicate your study should be presented
in which section?
a. Methods
b. Abstract
c. Introduction
d. Results
e. Discussion - Correct Answers -a. Methods
Which of the following has never been a confound in conflict adaptation studies?
a. Mental rotation
b. Conflict monitoring
c. Feature repetitions
d. Contingency learning - Correct Answers -b. Conflict monitoring
While the stimuli in Experiment 1 of Schmidt & Weissman (2014) were __________, the
stimuli in Experiment 2 were ____________.
a. arrows, words
b. letters, colors
c. words, arrows
d. colors, letters - Correct Answers -a. arrows, words
Schmidt & Weissman (2014) argue that their methods for avoiding confounds when
studying the CSE
a. may be useful in future functional MRI studies of the CSE
b. All of the other choices
c. are better than other methods (e.g., modeling approaches)
d. can easily be adopted by other researchers - Correct Answers -b. All of the other
choices
A potential problem with employing arrows as stimuli in conflict adaptation tasks is that
a. None of the other answers
b. Arrows engender greater contingency learning than other types of stimuli.
c. One arrow (e.g., left) can always be rotated to look exactly like another arrow (e.g.,
right).
d. Arrows (e.g., left and right) are automatically associated with responses (e.g., left and
right). - Correct Answers -c. One arrow (e.g., left) can always be rotated to look exactly
like another arrow (e.g., right).
Which of the following was a limitation of the Schmidt & Weissman (2014) study?
a. It did not rule out temporal learning confounds.
b. It did not rule out feature repetition confounds.
c. It did not rule out contingency learning confounds.
, d. None of the other answers - Correct Answers -a. It did not rule out temporal learning
confounds.
According to the article by Plaxco (2010) that you just read, the most important rule to
follow when writing a journal article is to
a. cite other papers appropriately
b. make the writing clear and easy to read
c. carefully describe the methods in the Introduction section
d. include statistics in the Discussion section - Correct Answers -b. make the writing
clear and easy to read
a good place to speculate on the implications of your findings when you are writing a
scientific article is
a. the results
b. the introduction
c. the discussion
d. the abstract
e. the methods - Correct Answers -c. the discussion
While the purpose of the ___________ is to convince people to read your paper, the
purpose of the _________ is to describe your experiment in detail so that someone else
can reproduce your work.
a. Introduction, Methods
b. Results, Discussion
c. Discussion, Introduction
d. Methods, Results - Correct Answers -a. Introduction, Methods
The main purpose of the abstract is to convey:
a. statistics for significant results
b. Important references that were cited
c. statistics for significant results AND Important references that were cited
d. a brief, overall summary of a study - Correct Answers -d. a brief, overall summary of
a study
Details that another researcher would need to replicate your study should be presented
in which section?
a. Methods
b. Abstract
c. Introduction
d. Results
e. Discussion - Correct Answers -a. Methods
