Ashford PSY352 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2021 November

PSY352 Cognitive Psychology

Week 2 Quiz   

Question 1The classic measure used to assess immediate memory capacity limits is termed:

  the Stroop task.

  memory span.

  the Brown-Peterson task.

  the juggling task.

 Question 2We tend to think in terms of and talk about:

  basic level categories.

  superordinate categories.

  subordinate categories.

  category hierarchies.

 Question 3In image-based approaches to object recognition:

  objects are recognized holistically through comparison with a stored analog representation.

  identification of the object is viewpoint independent.

  a rotated image can be recognized just as quickly as an image in its normal orientation.

  an object must first be broken down into components.     

 Question 4The olfactory-verbal gap is:

  the inability of people to label an odor given a choice of labels.

  the ability of people to name similar odors.

  the indirect connection of olfaction and verbal labels, through an emotional process.

  the difficulty people have in correctly identifying odors.

 Question 5The ________ approaches to object recognition might also be termed feature analysis, and propose that recognition ________ depend on the particular perspective we have on the object to be recognized.

  image-based; does

  image-based; does not

  parts-based; does

  parts-based; does not

 Question 6The case where later information interferes with the ability to retain information that occurred earlier is called:

  anterograde amnesia.

  retroactive interference.

  proactive interference.

  retrograde amnesia.

 Question 7Semantic memories:

  are generally retrieved in the absence of  a recollective experience.

  tend to be more vulnerable to forgetting than episodic memories.

  typically include an affective (i.e., emotional) component.

  aren't all that important in day-to-day living.

 Question 8The most conservative estimate of the limits on immediate memory is:

  1 or 2.

  3 or 4.

  7.

  9.

 Question 9Deaf individuals:

  show effects of similarity, but not word length.

  have no articulatory loop at all.

  show effects of word length, but not similarity.

  show effects of word length and similarity, just like hearing individuals.

 Question 10A problem with the prototype approach that can be explained by the exemplar approach is:

  sensitivity to context.

  similarity to the standard example.

  typical examples are generated first when people are asking to name a category member.

  that the exemplar approach is more economical.

 Question 11Mind-wandering:

  requires no mental effort.

  is associated with increased awareness of the surrounding environment.

  rarely occurs in daily life.

  usually occurs without intention.

 Question 12Which of the following types of processing would result in the best memory?

  thinking about how many syllables are in the word you are trying to remember

  thinking of a rhyming word

  evaluating whether the word fits into a sentence

  thinking about how the word relates to you

 Question 13Categories that are formed “on the fly” in the service of some goal are termed:

  natural categories.

  artifact categories.

  ad hoc categories.

  metaphorical concept categories.

 Question 14A problem with an extreme version of the exemplar approach is that:

  people are not sensitive to the biasing effects of context.

  it is not based on the idea of similarity to an example.

  it uses only the average examples, not all of the examples in memory.

  it is not economical to store every single example in memory.

 Question 15If people are given unorganized information to process, they will attempt to:

  use distinctiveness processing to aid memory

  impose their own structure and use subjective, idiosyncratic categories

  use material-appropriate processing to aid memory

  remember it using maintenance rehearsal