Nptel - Itcp - 2018 - Assignments Combined
Nptel - Itcp - 2018 - Assignments Combined
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Unit 1 - How to
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Assessment 00
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linguistics
Object
Perception and psychoanalysis
Recognition
computer science
Attentional philosophy
Processes and
Cognition No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Memory
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Introduction
psychoanalysis
Long Term 3) A body of knowledge structured according to what its proponents consider important, which 1 point
Memory
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Thought Process
central
and Problem
Solving serial
Reasoning sequential
parallel
Decision Making
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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parallel
5) Theories about cognition date back to the days of Aristotle and Plato 1 point
False
True
6) Sam is very outgoing, while his friend Lawrence is very quiet. An empiricist would say that the 1 point
difference in their personalities is probably due to biologically endowed personality traits
False
True
8) The _______________ was a rejection of the prevailing assumption that mental events were 1 point
beyond the realm of scientific study
universal grammar
cognitive revolution
behaviorist rebellion
9) Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of research methods and measurement 1 point
behaviourism
functionalism
structuralism
10)Historians date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 laboratory of 1 point
John Locke
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
Williams James
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Unit 2 - History
and research methods of cognitive psychology
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Assessment 01
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Quiz : 2) Which psychology school proposed that mental activities can be broken down into basic 1 point
Assessment 01 operational elements
Assignment 01:
Answer Sheet Behaviorism
Funded by
Behaviorism
Visual and
Spatial Memory Structuralism
5) The philosopher John Locke was a strong believer in ______, which rests on 1 point
Decision Making
the assumption that knowledge comes from an individual’s own experience
empiricism
nativism
introspection
behaviorism
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
empiricism
6) Who proposed that - "Behavior is a learned response, reinforced by the consequences resulting 1 point
from that behavior".
John B. Watson
Thorndike
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
Form
Content
9) The earliest theories about cognitive abilities date back to: 1 point
Evolutionary approach
Ecological Approach
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Unit 3 - Object
Perception and Recognition
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Assessment 02
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Lesson 03: 2) Which of the following sequence is correct for classic approach to perception 1 point
Models of
Perception-02
proximal stimulus, sensory registration, distal stimulus, percept
Quiz :
distal stimulus, proximal stimulus, percept, sensory registration
Assessment 02
distal stimulus, sensory registration, proximal stimulus, percept
Assignment 02:
Answer Sheet sensory registration, distal stimulus, proximal stimulus, percept
Text Material No, the answer is incorrect.
02 : Object
Score: 0
Perception and
Recognition Accepted Answers:
distal stimulus, sensory registration, proximal stimulus, percept
Attentional
Processes and 3) Which school of psychology explains the phenomena of figure-ground organization 1 point
Cognition
Functionalism
Funded by
Template matching
Theory-driven processing
Data-driven processing
Parallel processing
36
72
44
63
7) People perceive and interpret complex things into its simplest form is known as 1 point
Principle of similarity
Law of pragnanz
Principle of proximity
Principle of common fate
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Law of pragnanz
8) Which of the following model consists demons as feature detector 1 point
Template matching
Gestalt perception
Prototype matching
Pandemonium model
9) The top-down process of perception interacts with the bottom-up process also. What is the 1 point
correct sequence for visual perception explained by David Marr
10)Who gave the idea of optic flow during world war II 1 point
Marr
Cattell
Gibson
Rensink
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Unit 4 - Attentional
Processes and Cognition
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Assessment 03
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attention
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0
Lesson 01 : Accepted Answers:
Basic Attention
selective attention
Processes
2) Jacob is attending only important information which are relevant to him and blocking the 1 point
Lesson 02 :
Models of unwanted information, which attentional theory can explain this phenomenon
Attention
Attenuation theory
Lesson 03 :
Automization Late selection theory
and Attention
Schema theory
Quiz :
Assessment 03 Filter theory
Funded by
Concept
tasks that require resource-limited processing
Formation 4) In a book fair, most of the people tune into a single voice when hearing their own name and 1 point
ignore other voices, this phenomenon is famously known as
Visual and
Spatial Memory
Priming effect
Becklen
Neisser
Kahneman
7) Which of the following criteria is required for cognitive process to be automatic processing 1 point
according to Posner and Snyder
8) Which of the following task is better in explaining effect of practice in attention 1 point
Priming
Stroop task
Psychiatric deficits
Lack of perception
Visual blindness
Lack of attention
10)When attention is overloaded, then participants make integration error, result in 1 point
Illusory conjunction
Inattention
Memory illusion
Divided attention
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Unit 5 - Memory
Introduction
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Assessment 04
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Touch
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0
Lesson 01 : 2) If two stimuli arrive at the same time, the response for second stimuli will be 1 point
Memory slower than first stimuli. This phenomenon is referred to as:
Introduction
Lesson 03 :
Relative dependence period
Working Latency period
Memory
No, the answer is incorrect.
Quiz :
Score: 0
Assessment 04
Accepted Answers:
Text Material
04 : Memory
Psychological refractory period
Introduction
3) The results of the Brown–Peterson short-term memory task can be explained 1 point
Assignment 04 by:
: Answer Sheet
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decay
Long Term
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Memory neither decay nor interference
both decay and interference
Memory of
General interference Funded by
Visual
Human Language
Skills Auditory
Touch
Thought Process
and Problem Smell
Solving
No, the answer is incorrect.
Reasoning Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Decision Making
Touch
George A. Miller
Neisser
R. Conrad
Baddeley
6) F B I N S A K G B C B I C I A M I 5 B N D 1 point
The total string can be learnt by breaking it into initials for security agencies around the world, it could be
possible by
Editing
Chunking
Memory
Learning
7) Studies of coding in short-term memory suggest that which of the following 1 point
would be most DIFFICULT to recall correctly?
big-large-huge-tall-wide
C-O-G-Q-D
A-E-I-O–U
C-D-P-V-T
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
C-D-P-V-T
8) The primary function of central executive of working memory system 1 point
Rehearsal
Attentional system
Memory store
Retrieval of information
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Attentional system
9) John retrieves the information from past and uses this information to make some strategies to 1 point
perform a specific task. Which of the working memory component was active during this?
Phonological buffer
Episodic buffer
Central executive
Visuospatial sketchpad
Hitch
Baddeley
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Assessment 05
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Long Term 2) You had just heard some bad news and were very sad when you listened to a 1 point
Memory lecture on levels of processing. Now it is time to take a test on that lecture material.
According to the mood-dependent memory effect, you should:
Lesson 01 :
Long Term
Memory
sit in the same seat in the classroom as when you listened to the lecture
Encoding try to associate the lecture with your own life
Lesson 02 : watch a sad movie just before the exam
Retrieval from
Long Term attempt to visualize the material.
Memory
No, the answer is incorrect.
Quiz : Score: 0
Assessment 05
Accepted Answers:
Text Material watch a sad movie just before the exam
05 : Long-Term
Memory 3) Memory of facts and memory of time and event is respectively known as 1 point
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A project of In association with
Semantic memory, episodic memory
Memory of
General Autobiographical memory, Flashbulb memory
Knowledge
Flashbulb memory, episodic Funded
memoryby
Semantic memory
Thought Process
and Problem Memory of facts
Solving
Episodic memory
Reasoning No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Decision Making
Accepted Answers:
Episodic memory
Short-term memory
Flashbulb memory
Eyewitness memory
Long-term memory
6) Encoding and retrieval of information that actually did not happen in past, is known as 1 point
Repressed memory
Flashbulb memory
False memory
episodic memory
7) Which of the following task is responsible for induction of false memory in laboratory conditions 1 point
Deese-Roediger-McDermott
8) What is the correct name for memories for events, experiences and personal information from 1 point
one’s own life
Autobiographical memory
Flashbulb memory
Implicit memory
Eyewitness memory
Engram
Retrieval
Repression
Storage
Frederic Bartlett
Ulric Neisser
Elizabeth Loftus
Marigold Linton
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Unit 7 - Memory of
General Knowledge
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Assessment 06
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Episodic memory
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0
2) Collins and Quillian’s hierarchical network model would predict that which of 1 point
Long Term
Memory the following statements would take the LONGEST time to verify?
Score: 0 Powered by
Concept
Formation Accepted Answers:
spreading activation
Visual and
Spatial Memory 4) Who propose the Hierarchical Semantic Model 1 point
5) The excitation propagation of one node to another associated node in semantic network is 1 point
Spreading activation
Node activation
Network hierarchy
Semantic association
6) Properties and facts are stored at highest level in network model to reduce mental energy, this 1 point
concept is known as
Economic theory
Semantic network
Cognitive economy
Cognitive revolution
7) The response is faster for “Robin is a bird” instead than “Turkey is a bird”. It can be explained by 1 point
Typical instance
Semantic association
Typicality effect
Spreading activation
John Watson
John Anderson
9) The organization of packet of information available in brain which have fixed part and variables is1 point
consider as
Prototype
Template
Schema
Feature
10)Who tells you, what to do and how to behave in restaurant when you go for food 1 point
Waiter
Experience
Rules
Script
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Unit 8 - Concept
Formation
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Assessment 07
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Object Percept
Perception and
Recognition Group
Category
Attentional
Processes and Concept
Cognition
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Memory
Introduction Accepted Answers:
Category
Long Term
Memory 2) The mental representation of an object, event, or pattern that has stored in it much of the 1 point
knowledge typically thought relevant to that object, event, or pattern, can be defined as a
Memory of
General Category
Knowledge
Group
Concept Percept
Formation
Concept
Lesson 01 :
Introducing No, the answer is incorrect.
Concepts and Score: 0
Categories-01
Accepted Answers:
Lesson 02 : Concept
Introducing
Concepts and 3) Which of the following approach need actual individual instance to make a category 1 point
Categories-02
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07 : Concept Exemplar view
Formation
Classical view
Quiz :
Assessment 07 Schema view Funded by
4) In which of the approach to concepts and categorization, people uses their own knowledge to 1 point
Human Language guide tier classification of objects
Skills
Classical view
Thought Process
and Problem Porotype view
Solving
Knowledge-based
Reasoning Exemplar-based
5) Which of the following views are also uses by Schemata view for concept and categorization 1 point
formation
Prototype view
Exemplar view
6) The dog is an animal, which has 4 legs & tail and is man’s best friend. So what is Dog here 1 point
Category
Concept
Knowledge
Animal
Simultaneous Scanning
Successive Scanning
Conservative Focusing
All above
what a “pet” is
what happens when you go to the barber/hairstylist
what a “cat” is
what a classroom looks like.
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
what happens when you go to the barber/hairstylist
9) Implicit learning is also known as: 1 point
nominal-kind learning
nonanalytic concept formation
knowledge-based concept formation
analytic concept formation
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
nonanalytic concept formation
10)Which of the following poses a problem for the prototype view of concepts? 1 point
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Assessment 08
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Mnemonics
Attentional
Processes and Remembering
Cognition
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Memory
Introduction Accepted Answers:
Mnemonics
Long Term
Memory 2) Who proposed relational-organizational hypothesis for encoding of information in LTM 1 point
Memory of Moyer
General
Paivio
Knowledge
Bower
Concept
Formation Brooks
Human Language 4) According to relational-organizational hypothesis which type of stimuli will help in improving 1 point
Skills memory
Acoustic
Reasoning
All of above
Decision Making
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Imagery
5) Internal processes of mental visualization and visual perception are same, this principle of visual 1 point
imagery is known as
Visual perception
Spatial equivalence
Implicit encoding
Perceptual equivalence
6) How many basic principles Finke gave to describes the nature and properties of visual images 1 point
Implicit encoding
Priming
Perceptual equivalence
Structural equivalence
Spatial equivalence
8) When experimenters unconsciously give subtle cues to participants, which influence participant 1 point
Expectancy
Participant belief
Tacit knowledge
Picture metaphor
Propositional theory
All mentioned
10)Mental depiction of parts of our environment special landmarks and their spatial relationship is 1 point
Cognitive map
Spatial map
Mental representation
Mental map
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Unit 10 - Human
Language Skills
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Assessment 09
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Discrete
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0
2) The study in which various phonemes are combined together to yield meaningful units of 1 point
Long Term
Memory language is called
Memory of Pragmatics
General
Phonology
Knowledge
Semantics
Concept
Formation Morphology
Quiz :
4) The study of speech sound and how they are produced is known as 1 point
Assessment 09
Morphology
Assignment 09:
Answer Sheet Phonology
5) The systematic ways of combining the speech sounds that help us in studying the sounds of 1 point
language is studied under
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Pragmatics
6) The smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a given language is known as 1 point
Lexemes
Morpheme
Phoneme
Syntax
Milner
Garret
Warren
Bierwisch
Bierwisch
assertive
expressive
commissive
directive
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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commissive
10)Some African languages allow two consonants to appear together at the 1 point
beginning of a word (as in “Nkomo”); English does not allow this to occur unless the first
consonant is an “S” (as in “skull”). This example illustrates a difference in the ________
of the two languages.
semantics
phonetics
phonology
syntax
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Unit 11 - Thought
Process and Problem Solving
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Assessment 10
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Narrow problem
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0
5
Concept
Formation No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Visual and
Spatial Memory Accepted Answers:
5
Human Language
3) Behaviorism school of psychology uses which of the following approach to solving the problems 1 point
Skills
Assignment 10: 5) Which of the school of psychology uses the insight as a problem solving approach 1 point
Answer Sheet
Functionalism
Reasoning
Gestalt psychology
Decision Making
Behaviorism
Structuralism
Anagrams
Tower of hanoi
Analogy problems
7) “Creative acts are products of interpersonal, disciplinary and socio-cultural environments” is 1 point
defined by
Products
Person
Process
Press
8) ______ is a very important technique for solving the Towers of Hanoi problem 1 point
generate-and-test
working backward
means-end-analysis
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Unit 12 -
Reasoning
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Assessment 11
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Memory of 2) When general principles or assertions lead to a valid specific conclusion, it will be 1 point
General
Knowledge Inductive reasoning
Quiz : 4) Typicality effect and diversity effect are seen in which of the reasoning 1 point
Assessment 11
Conditional reasoning
5) Who define that, judgment is the human ability to infer, estimate & predict the character of 1 point
unknown events
Kahneman
Baron
Tower of Hanoi
ACT
Problem Space
7) __________ is the inability to see novel uses of everyday familiar objects 1 point
Functional fixedness
Proactive inhibition
Interference
8) Which of the following are the correct basic components of a problem 1 point
Variables, hypothesis
Premises, conclusion
Heuristics, function
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Unit 13 - Decision
Making
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Assessment 12
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Funded by
Lesson 01 : Powered
Expected utilityby
theory
Classical
Theory of No, the answer is incorrect.
Decision Score: 0
Making
Accepted Answers:
Lesson 02 : Prospect theory
Prospect
Theory of 4) Choose the correct option from the following 1 point
Decision
Making
MAUT – Main Attention Utility Technique
Lesson 03 :
MAUT – Multi Attention Utility Task
Course
Summary MAUT – Multi Attribute Universal Task
Text Material MAUT – Multi Attribute Utility Theory
12 : Decision
Making No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Quiz :
Assessment 12 Accepted Answers:
MAUT – Multi Attribute Utility Theory
Assignment 12:
Answer Sheet
5) Hsee & Rottenstreich (2004) suggest that in ______________ we value things or take decisions 1 point
by the feelings they evoke
Gain Frame
6) You are offered a chance to buy a lottery ticket. The probability of winning is 1 1 point
in 100. If you win, the prize is $100,000. According to expected value, a “fair” price for
this lottery ticket would be:
$5
$100
$1000
$10
7) You have just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the answer to a single 1 point
problem on your math quiz. In spite of your lack of success, you continue to struggle,
neglecting to continue on to other problems because you’ve already invested so much
time and effort in this problem. You have fallen victim to
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
the sunk cost effect
8) _______ is a mistaken belief that the probability of a given random event such 1 point
as winning or losing at a game of chance is influenced by previous random events
gamblers fallacy
psychological accounting
sunk cost
means end
9) Patient Ravi is told that the operation has a 10% chance of failure, whereas 1 point
patient Manoj is told that the same operation has a 90% chance of success. If Ravi
chooses not to have surgery, while Manoj chooses to have the surgery, to what
psychological phenomenon could we attribute this outcome?
representative heuristic
framing effect
availability
functional fixedness