PSY 372 MEMORY AND COGNITION MIDTERM
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Image clutter - ANS ✓many overlapping objects are scattered throughout a
scene
Stimuli can be partially obscured
Object variety - ANS ✓recognizing between a lot of objects
Variable views - ANS ✓different angles, can ID object no matter what angle or
view you're looking at it
Bottom-up processing - ANS ✓perceptions guided only by sensation
Top-down processing - ANS ✓perception by assumption and experiences and
memories
Perceptual set - ANS ✓predisposing you to recognize something one way as
opposed to another (drawing of old woman and young woman trick)
Closure - ANS ✓filling in gaps to create a whole
Bayesian inference - ANS ✓the use of mathematical probabilities to describe
the process of perceptual inference
Way of making a decision
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Plasticity - ANS ✓the brain's capacity to reorganize tissue in response to
experience of damage
Stroop task and its difficulties - ANS ✓Naming colors takes longer when the
word and color it's printed in are incongruent
Change blindness - ANS ✓failing to detect a change in an object or scene
Inattentional blindness - ANS ✓when attending to some things, we often miss
things we aren't attending to (gorilla bball video)
Binding problem of attention - ANS ✓correctly remembering specific features
of a scene, but mixing them up
Isolated feature/combined feature effect - ANS ✓visual search tasks are
easier when the target stimulus differs from all the background stimuli on a
single feature than when multiple features must be processed.
Colored Ls and Ts example
Feature present/feature absent effect - ANS ✓people can locate a feature that
is present quicker than a feature that is absent
Recall - ANS ✓memory without help ( ex: fill in the blank test)
Recognition - ANS ✓something prompts you to remember something (ex:
multiple choice)
Sensory memory - ANS ✓immediate impression, 1 second
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