PSY 2310 Final Exam 2024/2025 With 100% Correct Answers
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confirmation bias - correct answers A student is writing an article on whether more men or more women are likely to graduate from high school. They believe that more men graduate from high school than women, and has found evidence that they are right on their favorite news sites. This is an example...
PSY 2310 Final Exam 2024/2025 With
100% Correct Answers
confirmation bias - correct answers ✔✔A student is writing an article on whether more men or more
women are likely to graduate from high school. They believe that more men graduate from high school
than women, and has found evidence that they are right on their favorite news sites. This is an example
of
looks for evidence that would refute their own hypotheses. - correct answers ✔✔Karl Popper
emphasizes the idea of falsification over confirmation of an idea. By Popper's standards, a true scientist
Thinking about a construct as if it were a concrete entity. - correct answers ✔✔Which of the following
best describes the reification of formal constructs?
External Review - correct answers ✔✔In your Research Methods class, you and your group have
completed collecting data on your research project and have decided to submit your study to an
undergraduate psychology journal. This corresponds to which step or action of the Scientific Method?
we get a deep understanding of aberrant cases - correct answers ✔✔One important advantage of case
studies is that
The Cognitive Cone is an accurate representation of the mental processes each of us exhibits when
receiving information from the environment. - correct answers ✔✔ALL of the following are true
statements about the Cognitive Cone EXCEPT:
dependent - correct answers ✔✔Dr. Smith is developing a new drug to treat headaches. To test this
drug, she develops a study in which one group gets the new drug and the other gets a placebo (a fake
pill). Dr. Smith measures whether headaches improve by giving each participant a survey each day. The
amount of improvement, as measured by the survey, is the ______ variable.
Behavior and instrumentation - correct answers ✔✔What are the two prerequisites to remedy the issue
of studying something that is intangible (like gravity or the mind)?
,parsimony - correct answers ✔✔Amelia's sister, Meredith, isn't answering her phone when Amelia calls.
Amelia thinks, "Well, either Meredith's phone has been stolen, or the battery died." Concluding that
Meredith's battery likely died and that her phone wasn't stolen would best illustrate
Recalling previously learned information - correct answers ✔✔Which of the following is an example of a
mental process?
independent - correct answers ✔✔Dr. Smith is developing a new drug to treat headaches. To test this
drug, she develops a study in which one group gets the new drug and the other gets a placebo (a fake
pill). Dr. Smith measures whether headaches improve by giving each participant a survey each day. In this
experiment, the drug is the ______ variable.
systematically observing and measuring behaviors. - correct answers ✔✔Cognitive Psychology is the
scientific study of behavior and the mind. We can study the mind even though it is unobservable by
confirmation bias. - correct answers ✔✔The tendency to look for information which aligns with our pre-
conceived notions is referred to as
the latter is interdisciplinary. - correct answers ✔✔The main distinction between Cognitive Psychology
and Cognitive Science is
The mind is a black box - we can't know about what's going on inside. - correct answers ✔✔Which
description below best describes how Behaviorists view the mind?
embodied cognition - correct answers ✔✔Your psychology professor tells you, "Our cognitive processes
exist mainly to provide a means of interacting with the world around us." Which approach to cognitive
psychology is this?
he was his only participant. - correct answers ✔✔Ebbinghaus' memory experiment gave insight into the
nature of forgetting. However, we are a little concerned about his results because
,perception and decision-making - correct answers ✔✔Donders' mental chronometry experiment
consisted of two tasks: the simple reaction-time and the choice reaction-time. The Choice RT task
measured which mental process(es)?
hardware; software - correct answers ✔✔If you think of cognitive processing as a type of information
processing, then the brain is the ______ and the cognitive processes themselves are the ______.
Behaviorism - correct answers ✔✔The Sea World animal trainers use rewards (reinforcements) to teach
whales, sea lions and dolphins to perform tricks. These training techniques are based on principles from
which early school of psychology?
Measuring how long a cognitive process takes - correct answers ✔✔Donders (1868) conducted
experiments that are classified at "mental chronometry" experiments. Which of the following statements
best describes these types of experiments:
Output processes - correct answers ✔✔The mental function decision-making belongs to which stage of
the Process Model?
computer storage is stable and perfect, while human memory is fragile and often incorrect. - correct
answers ✔✔The Information Processing approach to Cognition uses a computer analogy to help explain
and understand how the brain and mind work together to integrate information and create a
representation of our world. Unfortunately, this analogy breaks down in that:
behavior can be analyzed without referencing the mind. - correct answers ✔✔The "Little Albert"
experiment conducted by Watson and Rayner (1920) revealed that:
acknowledges the existence of internal mental states - correct answers ✔✔While behaviorism focused
on only observable behavior, cognitive psychology
decays at a nonlinear rate over passages of time. - correct answers ✔✔The experiment by Ebbinghaus
ultimately revealed that memory:
Parsimony - correct answers ✔✔In Research Methods, you and your group have decided to investigate
whether exercise improves memory. Your instructor asks you to provide a justification in your
, Introduction that when forming your conclusions, you will give preference to the simplest explanation
available according to the data. In other words, they are making sure you are following the scientific
principle of
visual processing. - correct answers ✔✔The occipital lobe is responsible for (select the BEST answer):
hippocampus - correct answers ✔✔Jolie suffered brain damage that caused deficits to her short-term
memory, but her long-term memory was left intact. Damage in what brain area would most likely
account for this short-term memory deficit?
Both are responsible for language abilities. - correct answers ✔✔What do Broca's area and Wernicke's
area have in common?
Modern studies allow researchers to examine brain activity in research subjects who have no problems
with memory, speech, or learning. - correct answers ✔✔In what important way do modern brain studies
differ from the studies performed in the early days of cognitive neuroscience?
experiments. - correct answers ✔✔All of the following are methods used to study the brain EXCEPT
MRI - correct answers ✔✔All of the answer choices EXCEPT _______________ are functional ways to
measure the brain. This means that they allow us to see how the brain is active at any given time or in
response to a stimulus in the environment.
individual cells transmit signals in the nervous system. - correct answers ✔✔Golgi and Ramon y Cajal
won a Nobel Prize for their work on the Neuron Doctrine, in which they proposed the idea that
Broca's area - correct answers ✔✔In an episode of Grey's Anatomy, Lexie and Meredith remove a tumor
from a patient's frontal lobe without a proper surgery plan. Unfortunately, when the patient woke up,
she was straining to find words and produce speech. They must have damaged which part of the brain?
mirror neurons - correct answers ✔✔After performing her first surgery on a laboratory animal, Jennifer
watched her mentor perform another operation. Which of these was likely active at the time of her
observation?
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