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If you perform a lexical decision task which is interrupted by a prospective memory task how does the specification specificity affect the results?
A) the ill-specified tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the well-specified tasks; the event-based tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the time-based tasks B) the well-specified tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the ill-specified tasks; the time-based tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the event-based tasks C) the well-specified tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the ill-specified tasks; the event-based tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the time-based tasks D) the well-specified tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the ill-specified tasks; the time-based tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the event-based tasks |
C) the well-specified tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the ill-specified tasks; the event-based tasks do not slow the lexical decision task as much as the time-based tasks |
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In the video clip we viewed, Mark McDaniel and Gilles Einstein discuss their prospective memory studies and describe the age differences. What did they find?
A) no age differences on either the time-based or event-based tasks B) large age difference on the event-based task, no age difference on the time-based task C) no age difference on the event-based task, large age difference on the time-based task D) large age differences on both the time-based and event-based tasks |
C) no age difference on the event-based task, large age difference on the time-based task |
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Why is it surprising that Mahzarin Banaji shows a strong implicit association man and career and a much lower association between woman and career?
A) because she if a professor at Harvard B) because she has been able to practice on the task C) because she is an activist for home-schooling D) because she only works with other women |
A) because she if a professor at Harvard |
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What did Betsy Sparrow find about memory when she studied how people use the internet to handle information?
A) people are very good at indicating which file they put information into B) people are getting better and better at locating information on the internet C) easy access to so much information is causing us to store much more trivia in our memories D) people are becoming much more efficient at typing things into computers |
A) people are very good at indicating which file they put information into |
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Thomas reminds himself that he needs to go to the bank after work to take out cash. This is an example of:
A) Retrospective memory B) Prospective memory C) Procedural memory D) Implicit memory |
B) Prospective memory |
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In real life, older adults typically perform ___________ compared to younger adults on time-based prospective memory tasks.
A) Better B) Worse C) About equal D) Prospective memory cannot be tested |
B) Worse |
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What did Martin et al. find in their study on the impact of the complexity of a distractor task has on prospective memory?
A) Low complexity tasks had more severe effects on younger adults. B) Complexity had devastating effects on older adults, while they did not impact performance for the younger adults. C) Complexity did not significantly impact performance on prospective memory. D) High complexity tasks led to a more severe drop off in performance for older adults, than in younger adults. |
D) High complexity tasks led to a more severe drop off in performance for older adults, than in younger adults. |
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Which of these is NOT a characteristic of Asperger's syndrome?
A) socially inappropriate behavior B) peculiarities of speech C) repetitive behaviors D) short stature relative to family |
D) short stature relative to family |
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What did Ramachandran have Tammet do to check his imagery for consistency?
A) paint pictures of what he visualized when he thought about numbers B) performed a fMRI on him while he thought about certain numbers C) create models of numbers out of modeling clay D) asked him to perform calculations while flashing pictures at him to create interference |
C) create models of numbers out of modeling clay |
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When Stephen Wiltshire begins his drawing of Rome, which building does he draw first?
A) the Forum B) the Pantheon C) the Roman Colosseum D) the Church of St. Peter |
D) the Church of St. Peter |
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What language did Daniel Tammet learn to speak in one week for the television documentary?
A) Chinese B) Russian C) Icelandic D) French |
C) Icelandic |
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In the video on autism, which of the following captures one of the differences between autistic children and normal children?
A) Normal children are not inclined to imitate. B) Autistic children find it more natural to imitate others compared to normal children. C) Autistic children struggle to imitate others. D) Normal children need more encouragement and direction to imitate. |
C) Autistic children struggle to imitate others. |
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Stephen Wiltshire is an unique case of a savant because:
A) Not many savants have a specialized skill of drawing. B) His social development started much later in life. C) He has more than one specialized skill—he also has extraordinary musical skills. D) All of the above |
C) He has more than one specialized skill—he also has extraordinary musical skills. |
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Clive Wearing has suffered from almost complete anterograde and fairly complete retrograde amnesia since about 1985. Which types his memories are surprisingly intact?
A) memories related to music B) memories for the geography of the town he grew up in C) memories for images D) memories for faces |
A) memories related to music |
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Jon has suffered from anterograde amnesia from infancy on. Which of these cognitive deficits does he have?
A) great difficulty with implicit memory B) below average intelligence C) impaired episodic learning and recall D) impaired semantic memory skills |
C) impaired episodic learning and recall |
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What is the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test used to assess?
A) the memory component of the IQ Test B) practical memory problems C) the presence of Alzheimer's disease D) the beginnings of senile dementia |
B) practical memory problems |
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What is the term for a deficit in encoding, storing, or retrieving new events occurring after a trauma?
A) retrograde amnesia B) anterograde amnesia C) agnosia D) apraxia |
B) anterograde amnesia |
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What is the term for a loss of access to events that happened in the past?
A) retrograde amnesia C) transient global amnesia B) anterograde amnesia D) post-traumatic amnesia |
A) retrograde amnesia |
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What procedure was involved in the potential new Alzheimer's test found in 2009 by Leslie Shaw and shown in a news video
A) testing of spinal fluid B) testing of blood C) performing a fine needle biopsy on hippocampal brain tissue D) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation |
A) testing of spinal fluid |
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What sport was Chris Nowinski participating in when he sustained his worst head injuries and concussions?
A) wrestling B) football C) rugby D) soccer |
A) wrestling |
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How did Dave Duerson, former NFL star, die after developing CTE?
A) he shot himself in the chest B) he suffered a fatal brain injury during a game C) he wandered in front of a train while hallucinating D) he died from a drug overdose |
A) he shot himself in the chest |
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What job does Mike, the amnesic from the video Living with Amnesia, hold?
A) outboard motor repairman B) postal sorting clerk C) wiring technician D) injection molding operator |
D) injection molding operator |
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In the video on amnesia, we are introduced to Mike. Damage to his hippocampus caused him to have ____________.
A) Anterograde amnesia B) Retrograde amnesia C) Both anterograde and retrograde amnesia D) Post traumatic amnesia |
A) Anterograde amnesia |
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Lindsay has no memories of ever going to Disneyland; however, she has a strong sense of familiarity when she looks at pictures of the theme park. This best illustrates:
A) Implicit vs explicit memory B) Remembering vs knowing C) Anterograde amnesia vs retrograde amnesia D) Encoding specificity vs recall |
B) Remembering vs knowing |
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James suffered brain damage in a car accident and has memory deficits. During an examination, he is asked a series of questions like “What did you do on your birthday last year” and “Tell me about a time when did a favor for a friend”. These questions are designed to investigate if James has ___________.
A) Developmental amnesia B) Autism C) Anterograde amnesia D) Retrograde amnesia |
D) Retrograde amnesia |
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In addition to memory impairments, the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease requires at least two other deficits. Which of the following are deficits that would contribute to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease?
A) Executive function B) Language C) Motor control D) All of the above |
A) Executive function |
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Which of the following are warning signs of Alzheimer's Disease?
A) Difficulty performing familiar tasks B) Changes in personality C) Problems with abstract thinking D) All of the above |
D) All of the above |
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What diagnostic criteria for PTSD was clearly lacking in the patient with the elevator experience as described by Dr. Metloff of the San Diego VA ?
A) irritability, hyper-vigilance, or hyper-arousal B) flashbacks or other re-experiencing C) experience outside normal human experience D) social isolation |
D) social isolation |
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In the video, Why Memories Last, Dr. Larry Cahill of UCI is shown in a lab where a woman is being shown emotional images. Following the exposure, her hand and forearm are plunged into ice water. What is the purpose of the ice water?
A) to activate stress hormones B) to distract her from rehearsal C) to lower her body temperature and thus her response rate D) to condition her to avoid remembering the images |
A) to activate stress hormones |
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According to the video on PTSD from the UCSD group that featured a psychologist and social worker from the Veterans Administration in San Diego, what percentage of men who are raped experience PTSD?
A) 10% B) 30% C) 50% D) over 60% |
D) over 60% |
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In the video The Memory Pill, Beatrice was treated in the emergency room by Dr. Roger Pitman using a pill to help her with PTSD. What trauma had she experienced?
A) she witnessed her family being murdered B) she was riding a bus that was taken over by terrorists C) she was tied up and raped by a stranger D) a man jumped in front of her subway train |
D) a man jumped in front of her subway train |
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Jarob Walsh was wounded in an ambush in Iraq and was diagnosed with PTSD when he returned to the US. How did he describe his symptoms of PTSD?
A) depression and sadness B) confusion and hallucinations C) obsessions and compulsions D) irritability and impatience |
D) irritability and impatience |
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All of the following statements are true of PTSD EXCEPT:
A) In the United States, men are more likely to develop PTSD than women. B) Not all people who experience trauma will develop PTSD. C) Reminders can trigger memories of the trauma. D) All statements are true. |
A) In the United States, men are more likely to develop PTSD than women. |
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Propranolol is a drug that is being considered as a potential treatment for people with PTSD. Which of the statements best capture the rationale of administering this drug to effectively treat PTSD?
A) Increasing adrenaline will weaken memory consolidation. B) Decreasing adrenaline will weaken memory consolidation. C) PTSD patients need to confront their trauma and the drug increases the emotional impact of memories. D) Decreasing adrenaline will completely remove all memory traces of the original trauma. |
B) Decreasing adrenaline will weaken memory consolidation. |
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In Dr. Roger Pitman's experiment, half of the participants received the drug Propranolol and the other half received a placebo. In addition, Dr. Pitman did not know if the patients were in the experimental group or the control group. This type of experimental method is called:
A) Two alternative force choice B) Single-blind procedure C) Signal detection theory D) Double-blind procedure |
D) Double-blind procedure |
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What did Bernsten and Rubin (2008) find in their study on involuntary memories?
A) The intensity of recurrent memories declines as age increases. B) Frequency and intensity of recurrent memories increase with age. C) Valence and intensity of recurrent memories increase with age, but frequency decreases as people get older. D) Valence, intensity, and frequency of recurrent dreams all increase as age increases. |
C) Valence and intensity of recurrent memories increase with age, but frequency decreases as people get older. |
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In the video, Why Memories Last, Dr. McGaugh placed rats in a water maze and they had to explore the maze to find a platform. Rats that received an injection to stimulate their _____________ were significantly faster at finding the platform.
A) Hippocampus B) Amygdala C) Visual cortex D) Frontal lobe |
B) Amygdala |
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What insight did Minsky, a founder of artificial intelligence, gain from Bartlett's book?
A) that memory is malleable B) that memory includes top-down patterns C) that culture has effects on memory D) that even professors can forget things |
B) that memory includes top-down patterns |
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What is was Bartlett's most significant contribution to memory?
A) the mathematics for describing two-item forced choice tests B) connecting the hippocampus with memory C) the notion of a schema D) developing an associative model |
C) the notion of a schema |
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Which of these is not a name for the game that inspired Bartlett's memory study?
A) Categories B) Russian scandal C) Telephone D) Chinese whispers |
A) Categories |
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Bartlett found that when participants were asked to repeat the story “War of the Ghosts”, they tended to:
A) Omitted unfamiliar details of the story. B) Preserved a few trivial details for no apparent reason. C) Adjusted or added in details to make the story more logical and rational. D) All of the above |
D) All of the above |
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According to Penfield's homunculus, which of the following body parts would be drawn largest in size?
A) Shoulder B) Lips C) Toes D) Hip |
B) Lips |
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The tendency for people to recall information that is consistent with their own views better than inconsistent information is known as:
A) Hindsight bias B) Egocentric bias C) Consistency bias D) Change bias |
C) Consistency bias |
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Which of the following is a limitation of schema theories?
A) Unable to explain why memories can be distorted. B) Little evidence to demonstrate we even have schemas. C) Schema theories underestimate the complexity of memory representations. D) All of the above |
C) Schema theories underestimate the complexity of memory representations. |
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According to the Hierarchical Network Model, which of the following items would be highest in the network?
A) Shark B) Animal C) Halibut D) Fish |
B) Animal |
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According to the Spreading Activation Model, which of the following would receive the least amount of activation after hearing the word “RED”?
A) Street B) Fire truck C) Cherries D) Green |
A) Street |
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For many years, the four-minute mile was an immovable barrier. How long after Roger Bannister ran a sub-four minute mile did another runner accomplish the same feat?
A) two years B) one year C) six weeks D) three days |
C) six weeks |
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Which of the following is NOT one of the strategies used by top-achievers to keep out of the autonomous stage while practicing?
A) stay goal-oriented B) avoid failure C) get constant and immediate feedback on performance D) focus on technique |
B) avoid failure |
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Which of the following is a part of the PAO, the technique used by most mental athletes?
A) object B) place C) odor D) anthromorphic |
A) object |
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Why don't mammographers improve with time like surgeons do?
A) surgeons tend to be at the top of their classes in medical school B) the technology in mammography progresses at such a rate, mammographers are constantly changing their skill set C) the feedback they receive is weeks or months later D) each case is so different, they cannot extract a pattern |
C) the feedback they receive is weeks or months later |
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Which of the following is NOT a stage of skill acquisition described by Fitts and Posner?
A) cognitive stage B) manual stage C) associative stage D) autonomous stage |
B) manual stage |
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According to the Major System, what is the translation of the number 530?
A) LMS B) MNR C) FAD D) RLN |
A) LMS |
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Who gave the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome to Daniel Tammet ?
A) K. Anders Ericsson B) Simon Baron-Cohen C) Darold Treffert D) V. S. Ramachandran |
B) Simon Baron-Cohen |
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Which part of the brain does Snyder use TMS to turn off in order to induce temporary savant-like artistic skills in normal people?
A) the dorsal parietal peritoneum B) the hippocampus and amygdala C) the occipital regions D) the left frontotemporal lobe |
D) the left frontotemporal lobe |
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When Daniel Tammet described his synesthesia for numbers, how did each number up to 10,000 map onto his senses?
A) shape B) color C) texture D) emotional tone E) all of the above |
E) all of the above |
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In spite of this amazing store of knowledge, what was Kim Peek's IQ?
A) 52 B) 66 C) 87 D) 100 |
C) 87 |
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Which was the only savant skill that Daniel Tammet was will to perform in front of Foer?
A) calendar calculating B) mental mathematical calculation C) using his left and right eyes separately to simultaneously read different pages of a book D) reciting the prime numbers to 100,000 |
B) mental mathematical calculation |
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The word "savant" originally meant
A) idiot, person with a mental disability. B) man of learning, expert. C) employee, underling. D) napkin, handkerchief. |
B) man of learning, expert. |
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The new event introduced at the 2006 U.S. Memory Championship, which actually resembled a test of real world memory skills was __________________.
A) Three Strikes and You're Out of the Tea Party B) Moonwalking with Einstein C) Let's Play Las Vegas Card Sharks D) Fly Me to the Moon and Walk Me Back |
A) Three Strikes and You're Out of the Tea Party |
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How did Foer prepare for the event involving people giving personal information about themselves?
A) He constructed five new imaginary buildings. B) He made family and friends make up fictional biographies. C) He had his girlfriend adopt different characters over dinner. D) All of the above |
D) All of the above |
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How did Foer spend his last week before the championship?
A) He trained extra hard on his weakest event. B) He meditated. C) He cleaned out his memory palaces. D) He tested himself and replaced weak images with stronger associations. |
D) He tested himself and replaced weak images with stronger associations. |
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What did Maurice Stoll say that the enemy of memory is?
A) inattention B) alcohol consumption C) lack of sleep D) weak visualization |
C) lack of sleep |
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In which event did Foer set a U.S. record at the U.S. Memory championship in 2006?
A) Names and Faces B) Speed Numbers C) Random Words D) Speed Cards |
D) Speed Cards |
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What is the trophy for the U.S. Memory Championship?
A) a deck of cards in Lucite B) a scale model of Buckingham Palace C) an elephant with a string tied around its leg D) a silver hand with gold nail polish |
D) a silver hand with gold nail polish |
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Damage to what part of the brain disrupts fear conditioning?
A) prefrontal cortex B) the hippocampus C) the amygdala D) cerebellum |
C) the amygdala |
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What did Wegner show about attempts to suppress unwanted thoughts?
A) it is effective over time in completely forgetting the thoughts B) it can have a rebound effect C) it can result in repression, where the thoughts only appear as dreams D) it can create a habituation to the suppression |
B) it can have a rebound effect |
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What is the term for obsessive recycling of thoughts and memories regarding one's current mood or situation?
A) hyperfocus B) cognitive dissonance C) rumination D) mental magnification |
C) rumination |
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Generating alternative scenarios of what might have been or should have been is _________________________.
A) counterfactual thinking B) daydreaming C) magical hallucinations D) social ascription |
A) counterfactual thinking |
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When a bystander to a crime has a weak memory for the face of the criminal but a strong memory for the gun he was holding, it is an example of ________________.
A) facial feature blending B) weapon focus C) distinctiveness heuristic D) cryptomnesia |
B) weapon focus |
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A chronic perception of oneself as an inadequate or flawed individual is the result of __________________.
A) a negative self-schema B) egocentric bias C) post-traumatic stress disorder D) depressive ruminations |
A) a negative self-schema |
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Schacter ties the various sins of memory to processes of evolution. Which of the following is NOT one of the types of evolutionary development he uses to describe features of the human mind?
A) adaptations B) vestigiality C) exaptations D) spandrels |
B) vestigiality |
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What is the term for features that now enhance fitness, but were not built by natural selection for their current role?
A) exaptation B) alternation of generations C) coadaptation D) molecular mimicry |
A) exaptation |
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What scientist imprinted just-hatched goslings onto himself?
A) Jean Van de Velde B) Marc Hauser C) Steve Pinker D) Konrad Lorenz |
D) Konrad Lorenz |
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What term is used for a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing?
A) prejudice B) patterned paradigm C) cliché D) stereotype |
D) stereotype |
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What were the critical trials for the IAT for gender stereotypes? (These are the trials that were compared in your results.)
A) trials in which you selected between male and female for various names B) trials in which you selected either family or career for various items C) trials pairing woman with career (man with family) and trials pairing man with career (woman with family) D) all of the above |
C) trials pairing woman with career (man with family) and trials pairing man with career (woman with family) |
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If you held stereotyped beliefs about men having careers and women being responsible for families, what response times would you have?
A) you would respond more quickly when woman was paired with career and man was paired with family B) you would respond more quickly when man was paired with career and woman was paired with family C) you would respond more quickly when you were presented with male names than with female names D) you would respond more quickly to names than to career terms |
B) you would respond more quickly when man was paired with career and woman was paired with family |
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What did research using the IAT reveal about associations between high-fat food words and positive/negative words?
A) they showed faster response time when high-fat food words were paired with negative words B) they showed slower response times when high-fat food words were paired with negative words C) they showed faster response times when high-fat food words were paired with positive words D) there was no difference in their response times between pairing high-fat food words with positive or negative words |
A) they showed faster response time when high-fat food words were paired with negative words |
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What is the term for a person’s conscious views toward people, objects, or concepts?
A) prejudice B) stereotype C) implicit attitude D) explicit attitude |
D) explicit attitude |
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What type of process is word recognition?
A) controlled B) subliminal C) effortful D) automated |
D) automated |
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When the Stroop test is given to English-Spanish bilinguals, which combination produces the longest response time?
A) the word rojo, written in green, and named as "green" B) the word azul, written in red, and named as "rojo" C) the word blue, written in blue, and named as "azul" D) the word green, written in red, and named as "rojo" |
B) the word azul, written in red, and named as "rojo" |
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In the original Stroop effect study (as described in lecture), what did Stroop use as control conditions?
A) color words written in black and colored boxes B) color words written in black and color words written in the corresponding color C) color words written in incongruent colors and colored boxes D) color words written in incongruent colors and color words written in black |
A) color words written in black and colored boxes |
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Stroop interference is asymmetrical implies which of the following?
A) reading the word "cat" when posted over the image of a dog will not be slower than reading the word "cat" when posted over the image of a cat B) identifying a cat when the word above it is "dog" will take a different amount of time than identifying a dog when the word above it is "cat" C) identifying a cat when the word above it is "dog" will the same amount of time as identifying a cat when the word above it is "cat" D) reading the word "cat" when posted over a dog will take longer than reading the word "dog" when posted over a cat |
A) reading the word "cat" when posted over the image of a dog will not be slower than reading the word "cat" when posted over the image of a cat |
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What is the term for the processing of meaning of a word?
A) interference phenomena B) automaticity C) semantic activation D) syntactic representation |
C) semantic activation |
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A single visit to a new place is easier to remember than a particular visit to a place we go to often because of ____________________.
A) distinctiveness B) episodic retrieval C) distractions D) decay |
A) distinctiveness |
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The type of search we use when locating an item in short-term memory is _______________________.
A) parallel B) serial self-terminating C) serial exhaustive D) hierarchical |
C) serial exhaustive |
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A task in which a participant is asked to spontaneously retrieve material is a ________________________.
A) Sternberg search B) serial recall C) forced choice recognition D) free recall |
D) free recall |
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What is the term for the process of acquiring and storing information in memory?
A) learning B) retrieval C) storage D) encoding |
D) encoding |
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After studying a list of paired words, in which stick-dog is a pair, stick is a better cue for dog, even though cat is more closely associated with dog. What does this reflect?
A) semantic priming B) the encoding specificity principle C) the availability heuristic D) the information processing approach |
B) the encoding specificity principle |
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You are presented with the word pair "sofa-horse" to remember. During the recall task, which of the following would serve as the best memory cue for the word HORSE?
A) sofa B) saddle C) cowboy D) coarse |
A) sofa |
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You are presented with the word pair "car-truck" to remember. During the recall task, which of the following would serve as the best memory cue for the word TRUCK?
A) camper B) car C) wheels D) train |
B) car |
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What is the term for trials that are inserted between the trials you are studying to prevent response bias?
A) clinical trials B) critical trials C) filler trials D) screening trials |
C) filler trials |
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What did Godden and Baddeley find in their experiment with scuba divers learning words on land and in the water?
A) words learned on land were always recalled better B) words learned underwater were always recalled better C) words learned on land were better recalled underwater D) there was no difference in recognition no matter where learning and recognition occurred |
D) there was no difference in recognition no matter where learning and recognition occurred |
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Words encoded in a happy mood are better remembered in a happy mood, words encoded in a sad mood are better remembered in a sad mood. This is known as __________________.
A) state dependence B) the mood-congruency effect C) empathetic memory D) the framing effect |
B) the mood-congruency effect |
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Where is our knowledge of categories stored?
A) long-term memory B) short-term memory C) iconic memory D) implicit memory |
A) long-term memory |
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In a network, what is the term for applying a feature to all levels below it in a hierarchy?
A) typicality effect B) principle of inheritance C) spreading activation D) semantic distance effect |
B) principle of inheritance |
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According to the typicality effect, which of these sentences will produce the quickest response?
A) a pillow is furniture B) a wastebasket is furniture C) a chair is furniture D) an oven is furniture |
C) a chair is furniture |
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Which of these statements will have the longest response time?
A) a rose is a dog B) a rose is a palm C) a rose is a trout D) a rose is a tulip |
D) a rose is a tulip |
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What is the semantic distance in "a fish breathes?"
A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3 |
B) 1 |
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In the ZAP on Memory Bias, what was the independent variable?
A) the distracter task B) the mood that was induced C) the response time D) the type of word to study |
B) the mood that was induced |
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Why were there two dependent variables in the Memory Bias ZAP?
A) because there was a distracter task separating the stimuli from the responses B) because there were two independent variables C) because there were actually two tasks D) because a researcher would be interested in studying the interaction as well as the main effects |
D) because a researcher would be interested in studying the interaction as well as the main effects |
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What are the two levels of the independent variable in the Implicit Association Task?
A) stereotype congruent and stereotype incongruent B) man and woman C) career and family D) both b and c E) none of the above |
D) both b and c |
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What is the dependent variable in the Implicit Association Task?
A) items matched B) response time C) number of errors D) number of words recalled |
B) response time |
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For the IAT (Race) would a plot of the Congruent Response Times (y-axis) against the Incongruent Response Times (x-axis) look like if people in the class had no biases (or their implicit associations were the same for both conditions)?
A) Response times would be below a straight line drawn so that x=y. B) Response times would be above a straight line drawn so that x=y. C) Response times would fall along a straight line that is drawn so that x=y. D) Response times would show no pattern as they vary depending on the individual. |
C) Response times would fall along a straight line that is drawn so that x=y. |
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For the Implicit Association Task (Race) study, the results of which explicit measure of attitude conflicted with the results of the IAT?
A) Prejudice B) Bias C) Warmth D) Preference |
D) Preference |
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What is the independent variable in the form of the Stroop experiment that we used in ZAP 17?
A) whether the color of the word matched the actual word or not B) which color the word was written in C) which color word was used D) the number of letters in the actual word displayed E) none of the above |
A) whether the color of the word matched the actual word or not |
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In any experiment with two independent variables, such as ZAP 19 Encoding Specificity, how many scientific hypotheses would an experimenter make about the results?
A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 |
B) 2 |
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Which of the following contributors to the field of memory has not had a direct affiliation with UCI?
A) Elizabeth Loftus B) Gordon Bower C) George Sperling D) Ross Quillian |
B) Gordon Bower |
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Our class data on the Implicit Association Test (Race) showed that
A) on average, we responded more quickly to the stereotype congruent condition. B) there was a significant difference between students of different ethnicities in the difference in their reaction times for stereotype congruent and stereotype incongruent conditions. C) there was a significant difference between male and female students in the difference in their reaction times for stereotype congruent and stereotype incongruent conditions. D) all of the above are true. |
A) on average, we responded more quickly to the stereotype congruent condition. |
