Applied Cognitive Psychology Exam Practice Tests
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Applied Cognitive Psychology explores how principles of cognitive psychology are used to address real-world problems across various domains such as education, healthcare, business, and technology. The course covers topics including perception, memory, attention, decision-making, problem-solving, and language, emphasizing their application to everyday situations and workplace environments. Students will examine empirical research, case studies, and interventions that leverage cognitive theories to improve learning, productivity, human-computer interaction, and well-being, fostering practical skills in analyzing and designing solutions to cognitive challenges.
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Congitive Psychology 3rd Edition by E. Bruce Goldstein
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) A common feature of both a reaction time experiment and an operant conditioning experiment is
A) the presentation of positive reinforcers.
B) the measurement of behavior.
C) the inference of mental processes.
D) all of these are common features
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following methods, often associated with structuralism, was used in the psychology laboratory established by Wilhelm Wundt?
A) Analytic introspection
B) Measuring reaction times
C) Conditioning
D) All of these were used in Wundt's laboratory
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following was considered positive by the behaviorists?
A) Observable behavior
B) Consciousness
C) Introspection
D) The mind
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) Compared to brain-imaging techniques, ERP occurs on a
A) much slower time scale.
B) similar time scale.
C) much faster time scale.
D) more precise scale for understanding which brain structures are active.
Answer: C
Q2) In ERP methodology, the number that follows the N or the P (N400 or P300, for example)stands for
A) the positivity or negativity of the response.
B) how likely the response is, with higher numbers indicating a more likely response.
C) how strong the response is in millimeters on the reading.
D) the time at which the response peaks in milliseconds.
Answer: D
Q3) The key structural components of neurons are
A) cell body, dendrites, and transmitters.
B) axon, dendrites, and modules.
C) cell body, dendrites, and axon.
D) transmitters, dendrites, and axon.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) The pathway leading from the striate cortex to the temporal lobe is known as the A) what pathway.
B) where pathway.
C) landmark pathway.
D) action pathway.
Answer: A
Q2) When people look at a tree, they receive information about the geons of that object through stimulation of receptors.But they are also aided in identifying the object as a tree by knowledge that a tree often has the sky as a background and sits on grass.This prior knowledge travels down from higher centers to influence the incoming signals.The latter information from the higher centers illustrates
A) feedback signals.
B) principles of componential recovery.
C) the law of good figure.
D) the oblique effect.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) Flanker compatibility experiments have been conducted using a variety of stimulus conditions.By definition, this procedure must include at least one target and one distractor.In any condition where we find that a distractor influenced reaction time, we can conclude that the distractor
A) was overtly responded to by the participant.
B) was processed.
C) was ignored.
D) appeared in a high-load condition.
Q2) A high threshold in Treisman's model of attention implies that A) weak signals can cause activation.
B) it takes a strong signal to cause activation.
C) all signals cause activation.
D) no signals cause activation.
Q3) Location-based attention is when
A) the enhancing effect of attention spreads throughout an object.
B) attention is divided across two or more tasks simultaneously.
C) people move their attention from one place to another.
D) attention affects an entire object, even if it is occluded by other objects.
Q4) Define change blindness.Explain two sets of experimental data that illustrate this phenomenon.
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Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) Information is coded in STM exclusively through an auditory code.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain Sperling's experiments about sensory memory.Compare and contrast the results of the whole- vs.partial-report methods, and use this example to explain how clever experimentation can reveal rapid cognitive processes that we are usually unaware of.
Q3) One function of ____ is controlling the suppression of irrelevant information.
A) sensory memory
B) the phonological loop
C) articulatory suppression
D) the central executive
Q4) The word-length effect reveals that
A) STM digit span remains constant across native speakers of different languages.
B) longer words are typically more distinctive and easier to retrieve from LTM than shorter words.
C) working memory's central executive processes verbal information differently than visual/image information.
D) the phonological loop of the working memory model has a limited capacity.
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Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory--Structure
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Q1) Which of the following would most likely be a detailed long-term memory?
A) I just sat down.
B) I was talking to that girl just before class.
C) I was talking to that boy three months ago.
D) I talked to my cousin Amelia on the phone six months ago.
Q2) Imagine that the students described below are all taking a multiple choice test.Which student's behavior best describes an example of implicit memory?
A) One student comes to a question for which he is unsure of the answer, but choice b seems familiar so he decides that it must be right.
B) One student remembers the correct answer to a question as well as where the information could be found in his notebook.
C) One student has no idea what an answer was supposed to be, but she does not want to leave a question blank. So, she guesses by first writing out items that she thought would make sense.
D) One student is sure he does not know the answer for a question, so he leaves it blank.
Q3) Explain how research on brain-damaged individuals informs our understanding of priming in implicit memory.
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Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory--Encoding and Retrieval
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Q1) Transfer-appropriate processing is likely to occur if
A) the rememberer generates his own retrieval cues.
B) the type of encoding and type of retrieval match.
C) there is deep processing during acquisition of the new material.
D) imagery is used to create connections among items to be transferred into LTM.
Q2) Hebb's idea of long-term potentiation, which provides a physiological mechanism for the long-term storage of memories, includes the idea of
A) an increase in the size of cell bodies of neurons.
B) enhanced firing in the neurons.
C) larger electrical impulses in the synapse.
D) the growth of new dendrites in neurons.
Q3) The story in the text about the balloons that were used to suspend a speaker in mid air was used to illustrate the role of _____ in memory.
A) rehearsal
B) organization
C) depth of processing
D) forming connections with other information
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Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) The sleep list experiment, in which many people misremember the word "sleep" as being part of a list of words, is an example of
A) a repeated recall error.
B) a disadvantage of memory's constructive nature.
C) misleading postevent information's influence on memory.
D) retroactive interference.
Q2) In the "sleep list" false memory experiment, false memory occurs because of A) constructive memory processes.
B) verbatim recall.
C) the effect of scripts.
D) none of these
Q3) Lindsay's misinformation effect experiment, in which participants were given a memory test about a sequence of slides showing a maintenance man stealing money and a computer, showed that participants are influenced by MPI
A) if they believe the postevent information is correct.
B) only if the MPI is presented immediately after viewing the event.
C) even if they are told to ignore the postevent information.
D) if the MPI is consistent with social stereotypes.
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Chapter 9: Knowledge
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Q1) Collins and Quillian's semantic network model predicts that the reaction time to verify "a canary is a bird" is _____ the reaction time to verify "an ostrich is a bird."
A) slower than
B) faster than
C) the same as
Q2) Your text describes cross-cultural studies of categorization with U.S.and Itza participants. Given the results of these studies, we know that if asked to name basic level objects for a category, U.S.participants would answer ____ and Itza participants would answer ____.
A) bird; bird
B) bird; sparrow
C) sparrow; bird
D) sparrow; sparrow
Q3) Which of the following is most closely modeled on the way the nervous system operates?
A) Semantic network theory
B) The prototype approach
C) Parallel distributed processing theory
D) Enhancement due to priming
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Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) Explain the mental walk task.Describe the concept of "overflow" as it applies to the imaging of large and small objects.What do the results of mental walk experiments tell us about properties of the image field? Which side of the "imagery debate" do these findings support?
Q2) Wilma is a famous chef.Since she does not like to share her secret family recipes, she does not write down her special creations, which makes it difficult to remember their ingredients.To aid her memory, she has created a unique "mental walk" that she takes to recall each recipe.For each one, she has a familiar "route" she can imagine walking through (e.g., from the end of her driveway to her living room)where she places each item in the recipe somewhere along the way (e.g., Tabasco sauce splattered on the front door).By doing so, Wilma is using _____ to organize her memories.
A) mental synthesis
B) paired-associate learning
C) the pegword technique
D) method of loci
Q3) Describe the evidence showing that solving mechanical problems can involve mental simulation, and explain how this evidence relates to visual imagery.
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Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) Pollack and Pickett's experiment on understanding speech found that when participants were presented with individual words taken out of conversations (single words presented alone with no context), they could identify
A) 100% of the words spoken by their own voices.
B) 50% of the words spoken by their own voices.
C) 50% of the words spoken by others with an accent similar to theirs.
D) none of the words spoken by others.
Q2) When two people engage in a conversation, if one person produces a specific grammatical construction in her speech and then the other person does the same, this phenomenon is referred to as
A) anaphoric inferencing.
B) phonemic restoration.
C) garden-pathing.
D) syntactic priming.
Q3) Most of the coherence in text is created by A) inference.
B) syntax.
C) parsing.
D) phoneme restoration.
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) Dr.Curious is doing a follow-up study to the mutilated checkerboard problem experiment. In this new study, participants solve the following shoe problem before tackling the checkerboard problem.By doing this, Dr.Curious is studying the effect of _____ on problem solving.
The shoe problem: A first-grade class is using a trampoline in gym class, so all the children have removed their shoes, which are all jumbled in a large pile.One of the students, Miguel, is leaving early, so the teacher tells him to grab his shoes and report to the lobby.In his hurry, Miguel grabs two identical left-footed, size 6 red sneakers and runs to his mother still sock-footed.Will the remaining students be able to shoe-up with the remaining shoes without getting a foot-ache?
A) analogies
B) anaphoric interference
C) perceptual segregation
D) divergent thinking
Q2) Experts _____ than novices.
A) spend less time analyzing problems
B) are better at reasoning in general
C) are more likely to be open to new ways of looking at problems
D) take a more effective approach to a problem
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Chapter 13: Reasoning and Decision Making
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Q1) Sanfey and coworkers' "ultimatum game" experiment revealed that people tended to make the ____ decision of ____.
A) irrational; accepting any offer
B) irrational; accepting only high offers
C) rational; accepting any offer
D) rational; accepting only high offers
Q2) If it is raining, then I will take my umbrella.It is not raining.Therefore, I didn't take my umbrella.
This syllogism is an example of
A) denying the antecedent.
B) denying the consequent.
C) affirming the antecedent.
D) affirming the consequent.
Q3) Consider the following conditional syllogism:
Premise 1: If I study, then I'll get a good grade.
Premise 2: I got a good grade.
Conclusion: Therefore, I studied.
This syllogism is
A) invalid.
B) valid.
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