University:
Eastern Kentucky University
Course:
PSY 317 | Cognitive Psychology
Academic year:

2021
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2
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Chapter 1-3 1) Attention, perception, memory, and decision-making are all different types of mental processes in which the mind engages. These are known as different types of Correct b. cognition. 2) The task of determining the object responsible for a particular image on one's retina is called the Correct a: inverse projection problem. 3) The Gestalt psychologists believe that _____. Correct c. perception is affected by experience, but built-in principles can override experience 4) The investigation of how behavior is strengthened by the presentation of positive reinforcers (e.g., food) or withdrawal of negative reinforcers (e.g., shock) is best known as Correct a. operant conditioning. 5) Sally decided to submit an exam post-mortem for extra credit. In it, she corrected the answers she got incorrect and reflected on why she answered as she did. Will Sally get full points? Correct: No. She's missing a paragraph where she reflects on her study strategies and discusses what she might change about her study habits for future exams 6) Entering a church service and seeing someone selling hot dogs and cotton candy from a cart near the altar would be perceived as a violation of Correct b. scene schema. 7) Which of the following does NOT characterize the information processing (IP) approach to the study of cognition? Correct c: IP emphasizes stimulus–response relationships in cognitive processes. 8) Perceiving machines are used by the U.S. Postal Service to "read" the addresses on letters and sort them quickly to their correct destinations. Sometimes, these machines cannot read an address because the writing on the envelope is not sufficiently clear for the machine to match the writing to an example it has stored in memory. Human postal workers are much more successful at reading unclear addresses, most likely because of Correct: top-down processing. 9) In Donders's experiment on decision making, when participants were asked to press a button upon presentation of light, they were engaged in a Correct a. simple reaction time task. 10) The first experiments in cognitive psychology were based on the idea that mental responses can be Correct a. inferred from the participant's behavior 11) The fact that trees are more likely to be vertical or horizontal than slanted is an example of ____. Correct b. physical regularity