exam 3 psych questions

if a football player sustains a concussion and has no memory of playing leading up to the injury, what has probably occurred

interruption of trace consolidation

if short wavelength light looks blue to us, and our experience of seeing blue depends on blue- yellow, [picture cuts off words] assuming it says, “what type of response do we get when see blue

excitatory

lateral inhibition is

all of the above

• responsible for enhancing boundaries or edges

• inhibition of less activated neuron in the retina by a highly-activated neighboring neuron

• the mechanism underlying brightness contrast

a study participant is shown a list of words and asked to rate how pleasant or unpleasant they are . A few days later the participant is given word stems of some words from that list and asked to completely them with whatever word that comes to complete them with whatever word comes to mind. The participant

all of the above

• is likely to complete the word stem with one of the words they saw in the earlier session

• shows an effect of seeing the earlier list, even if they do not remember they saw the word then

• may show unconscious effect of that earlier list on their memory up to a week later

short term memory differs from long term emory in that in short term memory

its neural basis is dynamic activity among a group of neurons rather than a structural pattern of connections

if two objects of different size produce the same size retinal image, the large object must be

farther away than the smaller one

the older term “short-term memory” emphasizes __ while the more current term “working memory” implies

duration of storage; a “cognitive workbench”

the name of the first president of the U.S. is stored in your ___ memory. As you try to recall the name, you utilize your ___ memory

generic; explicit

patients suffering long lasting anterograde amnesia usually lose their ability to make new

explicit memories

which of the following did Henry Molaison still retain after having his hippocampus removed

none of the above

cause he couldn’t make new episodic memories

couldn’t remember distinctive events such as witnessing a car accident

couldn’t transfer information from short term to long term memory through elaborative rehearsal

Craik and Tulving “depth of processing” experiment showed that

semantic or meaningful processing led to the best memory performance

in terms of sensation and perception, our knowledge of the world, i.e, of objects and events, is ____, and our experience of the world, ie, of color and sounds is___

perception; sensation

implicit memory differs from explicit memory in that

implicit memory does not require conscious awareness of remembering

the recency effect

depends on short term (working) memory

a proximal stimulus is

a pattern of activity in a sensory organ, for instance an image projected onto the retina

Elizabeth Loftus has shown that when memories are reconstructed

they seem equally true to the person doing the remembering whether they’re accurate or not

Feature detectors are neurons in the visual cortex that respond best to

lines that are either horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or some other specific orientation

according to the encoding- specificity principle, what would be the best retrieval cue for a particular word from a list that was learned earlier

a word that brings back the context from learning the list

pushing gently on the side of your closed eye will create visual sensations even though no light is present, this is evidence for

the doctrine of specific nerve energies

the kind of amnesia that involves forgetting things that occurred before a brain trauma is called

retrograde amnesia

Helmholtz’s maximum likelihood principle

was intended to take account of the way the world usually is, when making unconscious inferences

as you read a complex paragraph of text, the intermediate phrases and sentences you are comprehending are being assembled in your ___ memory, and the definitions of the words you are accessing are in your ___ memory

working; generic

the brain fuses the two slightly differently angles images of the world coming from each type into one image, and a result

it creates an impression of depth

the reason you should look a little to the side of a faint star in oder to see it better is

the rods cells that can detect its light are not found in the center of the retina

electromagnetic radiation gives rise to our experience of color based on its ___ and of brightness based on its ___

wavelength; intensity

if you mis- remember an earlier celebrity A’s drama because you mix it up with a later celebrity B’s drama that is

retroactive interference

Gestalt psychologists claim that the whole is made up of the sums of the parts is supported by what?

the phenomenon of apparent motion

episodic memory is

knowing what you at for dinner last night

he write choose A, have a great summer he said something like that, choose

A) this is the correct answer

he writes CHOOSE D, a questions in German language, something about who is the 20th president but its entirely written in German

D) James Garfield