Homework answers / question archive / Question 1 (2 points)   Saved If you are hungry you might eat a banana, salad, or piece of cake

Question 1 (2 points)   Saved If you are hungry you might eat a banana, salad, or piece of cake

Psychology

Share With

---

Question 1 (2 points)

 

Saved

If you are hungry you might eat a banana, salad, or piece of cake.  You would not eat a rock.  Even though a banana, salad, and piece of cake are very different from each other, the fact that you can eat each of them suggests that they belong to the same:

Question 1 options:

	mental set
	archetype
	category
	property

Question 2 (2 points)

 

Concepts can be seen as the basic units of  ________ memory.

Question 2 options:

	episodic
	semantic
	procedural
	implicit

Question 3 (2 points)

 

Saved

Research examining typicality, borderline cases, and intransitivity has tended to refute the _______ view of concepts.

Question 3 options:

	theory-based
	prototype
	classical
	essentialism

Question 4 (2 points)

 

Saved

You have not gotten around to cleaning up your apartment lately. Your friend walks in and seeing the mess scattered around says, "Wow, this place is a dis....." As you are listening to your friend speak your brain starts to process potential meanings for the word he is about to say (e.g., disaster, disappointment, disgusting, etc.).  This processing of multiple meanings is an example of: 

Question 4 options:

	wordspotting
	speech segmentation
	coarticulation
	parallel activation

Question 5 (2 points)

 

Optimal viewing position for the word 'grammatical' would most likely be:

Question 5 options:

	slightly above center
	to the left of center
	to the right of center
	slightly below center

Question 6 (2 points)

 

The words straight, straighten, straightedge, and straighter all share the same:

Question 6 options:

	morpheme
	OVT
	syntax
	clause

Question 7 (2 points)

 

A researcher reads a child a story about a girl named Sally who is playing with a doll in her bedroom. Sally puts her doll in the dollhouse and leaves the room.  While Sally is gone her little brother comes in and hides the doll under her bed.  The researcher then asks the child, "Where will Sally look for the doll when she returns to her room?" The researcher in this example is most likely studying:

Question 7 options:

	theory of mind
	object recognition
	conservation
	mental representation

Question 8 (2 points)

 

Your nephew is a freshman in high school. You ask what his plans are for the future. He states that he will be going to Yale where he will declare pre-med.  He will subsequently attend Harvard Medical School and train to be a cardiovascular surgeon.  After medical school he will get married and have three children, two boys and a girl, and he will become head of the cardiovascular surgery department at the local hospital.  You ask him why he wants to become a doctor.  His response is, "I want to be just like my dad."  Your brother is an alumnus of Yale and Harvard and currently heads the cardiology unit at the local hospital. Your nephew is most likely in this phase of identity development:

Question 8 options:

	foreclosed
	identity diffused
	moratorium
	identity achieved

Question 9 (2 points)

 

Chomsky argued that language was purely the result of learning and the principles of conditioning.

Question 9 options:

	True
	False

Question 10 (2 points)

 

Your patient is recovering from a traumatic brain injury stemming from a car accident.  While your patient appears to understand what you are saying to her, when she attempts to speak the words are nonsensical. You diagnose your patient with:

Question 10 options:

	Broca's aphasia
	dyslexia
	Wernicke's aphasia
	agnosia

Question 11 (2 points)

 

A cognitive neuroscientist who argues that it is important to study a single individual with brain damage in detail would be most likely to use the following research method:

Question 11 options:

	retroactive study
	group study
	single-case study
	cohort study

Question 12 (2 points)

 

It is important to consider pre-morbid pathology when researching brain function in patients with epilepsy.

Question 12 options:

	True
	False

Question 13 (2 points)

 

Changes in personality and impairment in social interaction are most often associated with damage to the:

Question 13 options:

	occipital lobe
	parietal lobe
	temporal lobe
	frontal lobe

Question 14 (2 points)

 

Dementia can be caused by which of the following:

Question 14 options:

	Parkinson's
	all of the above
	Alzheimer's
	impaired blood supply to the brain

Question 15 (2 points)

 

Which of the following are negative psychiatric symptoms (select all that apply)?

Question 15 options:

	reduced motivation
	affective flattening
	motor slowing
	hallucinations

Question 16 (2 points)

 

When taking an exam for your psychology course you find that you are more easily recalling information from the first section of your study guide. This experience is best described by ....

Question 16 options:

	the mood effect.
	the recency effect.
	the primacy effect.
	priming.

Question 17 (2 points)

 

While growing up you and your sister often played chess together. You did not know the rules, so you made up your own and had lots of fun. Now as an adult you would like to learn the actual rules, but you find you keep getting confused and trying the play the way you used to when you were a kid. This is an example of:

Question 17 options:

	encoding interference
	proactive interference
	retrieval interference
	retroactive interference

Question 18 (2 points)

 

Jack witnessed a robbery at a gas station late one night.  It was dark and the robber was wearing a red coat and a blue hat. The robbery took less than one minute and Jack was talking on his cell phone when the incident occurred. Two weeks later a detective showed up at Jack's door and asked for an eye witness account of the crime.  Which of the following factors should the detective take into account when evaluating the validity of Jack's report.

Question 18 options:

	The robbery took place in the dark.
	Two weeks had passed by the time the detective collected Jack's account.
	The robber was wearing a red coat.
	Both A and B

Question 19 (2 points)

 

While walking to your car alone late one night you hear heavy footsteps behind you. Immediately your heart starts racing and your breath quickens.  This is most likely due to

Question 19 options:

	activation of your sympathetic nervous system.
	the coffee you drank that morning.
	activation of your unconscious.
	activation of your parasympathetic nervous system.

Question 20 (2 points)

 

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big Five emotions?

Question 20 options:

	fear
	anger
	disgust
	love

Question 21 (2 points)

 

Shonda is an avid skateboarder.  Today she completed her first perfect routine on the half pipe.  If she were to describe the emotion she is feeling using the dimensional approach she would most likely say her:

Question 21 options:

	her valence is positive and her arousal level is low
	her valence is negative and her arousal level is low
	her valence is negative and her arousal level is high
	valence is positive and her arousal level is high

Question 22 (2 points)

 

Charles, a 70-year-old man, is telling stories about his life to his grandchildren. Most of his stories are about his activities around the age of 25- to 30-years-old.  This is best explained by which of the following concepts?

Question 22 options:

	the reminiscence bump
	recency
	childhood amnesia
	life story

Question 23 (2 points)

 

Put these in order from most specific to most general. In other words, number 1 is part of number 2 which is part of number 3 which is part of number 4.

Question 23 options:

1 2 3 4	single episodic memory
1 2 3 4	life schema
1 2 3 4	general event
1 2 3 4	lifetime period

Question 24 (2 points)

 

During a job interview your potential employer asks you to describe a time you successfully worked as part of a team to solve a problem. You think for a short time, walking through some of your prior experiences in your mind.  You then proceed to tell the story about the time you and your colleagues landed a huge client at your previous job.  The type of recall can be characterized as 

Question 24 options:

	direct retrieval
	working retrieval
	self-defining retrieval
	generative retrieval

Question 25 (2 points)

 

Tiger Woods is playing golf with a friend, a friend who has never played golf before. When Tiger hits the ball he is most likely using ___________ processing. When his friend takes his first swing and whiffs, he is most likely using _________ processing.

Question 25 options:

	controlled:automatic
	automatic:controlled
	automatic:implicit
	controlled:explicit

Question 26 (2 points)

 

The fact that drugs such as alcohol lead to reduced inhibition suggests that:

Question 26 options:

	normal consciousness involves monitoring and controlling our behavior.
	the way we behave while drunk is our true self.
	normal consciousness restricts our creativity.
	we only speak freely when inebriated.

Question 27 (2 points)

 

This theory of consciousness address the homunculus problem by suggesting that stimuli are simply processed, not processed and then sent to consciousness.

Question 27 options:

	Norman and Shallice's SAS model
	Baddley's central executive theory
	the 'Cartesian Theater" theory
	Dennett's multiple drafts theory

Question 28 (2 points)

 

If a chess player was unable to tell if she was playing a human or a machine, the machine would be said to have passed the 'Turing test.'

Question 28 options:

	True
	False

Question 29 (2 points)

 

With respect to AI, a neural network refers to:

Question 29 options:

	a group of scientists who network about ways to improve AI.
	a large number of interconnected processors that allow a machine to learn.
	a robot's brain.
	the way two distinct robots talk to each other.

Question 30 (2 points)

 

AlphaGo achieved success via:

Question 30 options:

	neural learning
	patterned learning
	shallow learning
	deep learning