Cognitive Psychology - Module 1 Quiz Certification Revised Exam Questions With Multiple Choices And Verified Answers.
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Module
PSMNB
Institution
PSMNB
If a patient were to suffer amnesia similar to H.M.'s, which of the following would pose a particular problem?
a. recalling the name of childhood pets.
b. accessing the background knowledge necessary to understand simple stories.
c. navigating streets he knew well before brain surgery.
d. remem...
If a patient were to suffer amnesia similar to H.M.'s, which of the following would pose a particular
problem?
a. recalling the name of childhood pets.
b. accessing the background knowledge necessary to understand simple stories.
c. navigating streets he knew well before brain surgery.
d. remembering his/her divorce after brain surgery. - correct answer d.
remembering his/her divorce after brain surgery.
Which of the following is a way that cognitive psychology is DIFFERENT from physics?
a. Physicists test their theories using the scientific method.
b. Psychologists must take into account the way participants interpret their study.
c. Psychology does not allow for direct observation of the causes of phenomena.
d. Physics bases its theories on objective, quantifiable data. - correct answer b.
Psychologists must take into account the way participants interpret their study.
Which of the following was NOT one of the problems associated with introspection as a research
technique?
a. Some thoughts are not available to the conscious mind.
b. Many introspective claims cannot be tested in a rigorous fashion.
c. How people react to a stimulus is heavily influenced by past experience.
d. Thoughts and feelings cannot be meaningfully compared across individuals. - correct answer
c. How people react to a stimulus is heavily influenced by past experience.
When reading a story about a girl shaking a piggy bank because she wants to buy something, we
understand the reasons for her action because
a. our working memory fills in the background information.
b. all the necessary information is already present in the story.
c. the capacity of working memory is unlimited.
, d. we provide additional background knowledge based on our own experience. - correct answer
d. we provide additional background knowledge based on our own experience.
Martin is trying to understand why he's been forgetting things lately. As a well-trained cognitive
psychologist, Martin is likely to investigate this puzzle by
a. examining the circumstances associated with his memory failures, including the complexity or
familiarity of the material and how fully he paid attention to the material during learning.
b. focusing exclusively on the stimuli he's encountered recently—including rewards or punishments he's
received for remembering particular items.
c. focusing entirely on the conscious experience of trying to remember and then the experience of
succeeding or failing.
d. relying on the anecdotes he has heard from his friends about when they remember and when they
forget. - correct answer a. examining the circumstances associated with his memory
failures, including the complexity or familiarity of the material and how fully he paid attention to the
material during learning.
As one of their main goals, the original behaviorists tried to
a. discover a set of principles concerned with how behavior changes in response to different
configurations of stimuli.
b. gather a record of specific individuals' subjective interpretations of internal thought and experiences.
c. study the influence of an individual's interpretation of a situation on his or her consequent behavior.
d. show how all of an individual's feelings can be explained by his or her history of reinforcement. -
correct answer a. discover a set of principles concerned with how behavior changes
in response to different configurations of stimuli.
Which of the following pieces of evidence would NOT be consistent with claims about the articulatory
rehearsal loop?
a. In working-memory tasks, when people hear "F" spoken, they sometimes remember "S" instead.
b. In working-memory tasks, when people see the letter "F," they sometimes remember "S" instead.
c. Repeating a nonsense syllable over and over interferes with the ability to hold a string of letters in
working memory.
d. Repeating a nonsense syllable over and over interferes with the ability to hold a sequence of abstract
shapes in working memory. - correct answer d. Repeating a nonsense syllable over
and over interferes with the ability to hold a sequence of abstract shapes in working memory.
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