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1. If you want to learn about cause and effect, you must use the experimental method.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a

2. It is easier to recognize the letter “X” within the word “TEXT” than the letter “X” presented
on its own.
a. True
b. False
Answer: b

3. Suppose you look at a vehicle and end up by just remembering ‘—nda’ from the
manufacturers name. You then come up with the Honda to the manufacturer’s name. You have
used
a) bottom up processing c) primacy effect
b) top down processing d) recency effect
Answer: b

4. Eye witness testimony are mostly flawed. A optimal method for improving the accuracy of
such testimony is
a) police interview c) cognitive interview
b) hypnosis d) cued recall
Answer: c

5. Ramu is given directions to village temple. After some time he remembers only the first
couple of instructions. This phenomena illustrates
a) primacy effect c) forgetting
b) recency effect d) availability
Answer: a

6. The belief that most of our abilities and tendencies are with us from birth is known as:
a. nativism.
b. empiricism.
c. associationism.
d. introspection
Answer: a

7. Noam Chomsky revolutionized the field of _________ and showed how behaviorism could
not adequately explain language.
a. neuroscience
b. computer science
c. human factors
d. linguistics
Answer: d

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8. That guest star on your favorite television show looks familiar. You’re sure that you’ve seen
him before, but you can’t think of his name. The fact that you know you have seen the face
before, however, illustrates the cognitive process of:
a. perception.
b. attention.
c. recognition.
d. recall.
Answer: c

9. The belief that psychological phenomena cannot be reduced to simple elements but must be
studied in their entirety is central to the school known as:
a. structuralism.
b. Gestalt psychology.
c. functionalism.
d. behaviorism
Answer: b

10. A body of knowledge structured according to what its proponents consider important, which
guides research topics and research methods, is called a ___________.
a. paradigm
b. hypothesis
c. methodology
e. metaphor
Answer: a

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Week 01 : Assignment 01
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Due on 2023-02-08, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-01-13, 16:14 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 ]

1) The _______________ was a rejection of the prevailing assumption that mental events 1 point
were beyond the realm of scientific study.

cognitive revolution

behaviorist rebellion

human factors movement

universal grammar

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cognitive revolution

2) Which of the following is a basic assumption of the connectionist approach? 1 point

serial processing

multiple stores where information is kept throughout processing

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 networks of connections among simple processing units

a central processor that directs the flow of information

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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networks of connections among simple processing units

3) The term ___________ refers to the claim that neural structures supporting a particular 1 point
cognitive process reside in a particular brain region.

limited capacity processors

synaptic transmission

brain plasticity

localization of function

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
localization of function

4) What kind of research methodology focuses on intensive analyses of a single 1 point

individual?

surveys

case studies

correlational studies

naturalistic observations

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
case studies

5) The term “limited capacity processors” suggests that: 1 point

computers have limited memory storage.

human beings can only do so many things at once.

neurons can only fire at a certain rate.

processing in the brain occurs in parallel

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
human beings can only do so many things at once.

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 6) Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of research methods and 1 point
measurement?

the Gestalt school

functionalism

structuralism

behaviorism

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
behaviorism

7) Using a computer or information-processing model would most accurately depict which 1 point
approach to cognition?

embodied cognition

behaviorist

representationalist

linguistic

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
representationalist

8) Which of these is a way that cognitive researchers measure mental processing? 1 point

pulse rate

breathing rate

type of memory errors

speed of hand movements

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
type of memory errors

9) The philosopher John Locke was a strong believer in ______, which rests on the 1 point
assumption that knowledge comes from an individual’s own experience.

nativism

empiricism

introspection

behaviorism

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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
empiricism

10) A traditional “school” within psychology that had as its goal the identification of the 1 point
simplest possible units of the mind:

functionalism.

structuralism.

behaviorism.

the Gestalt school.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
structuralism.

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Week 02 : Assignment 02
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-02-08, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-02-03, 00:18 IST

All Questions are Compulsory.
Marks [ 1 x 10 ]

1) One model of perception emphasizes that a percept is compared 1 point

to idealized representations in memory of every class of information,
and matched to the one it most closely approximates. This model is
known as:

template matching
featural analysis
the pandemonium model
prototype matching
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
prototype matching

2) All Gestalt principles follow the law of: 1 point

Closure

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 Good Continuation

Prägnanz
common fate
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Prägnanz
3) Which organizational principle of Gestalt perception would be 1 point
responsible for our perception that an airplane has continued along its
flight path even though we can no longer see it?

good continuation
closure
simplicity
proximity
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
good continuation

4) If you were to hold a pen in each hand, with one held five 1 point
inches from your face and the other at arm’s length, the one closer to
your face will look larger, even though they are the same size. This is
based on cues from ______.

the retinal image

brain functioning
top-down processing
a linear perspective
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the retinal image

5) The two best studied forms of perception are: 1 point

visual and haptic

visual and olfactory
visual and auditory
auditory and olfactory
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
visual and auditory
6) A process of perception, beginning with small bits of 1 point
information gathered from the environment and put together in various
ways to form a percept, would be described as:

bottom-up processing
top-down processing
theory-driven processing
template matching
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
bottom-up processing

7) Which of the following processes the sensations coming into 1 point

each sense organ, allowing us to understand and interpret the sensations
we receive?

stimulus
sensory system
brain
environment
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
sensory system

8) When making a decision, we are likely to weigh all of the 1 point

possible choices we could make. This is most similar to the concept of
______ in perception.

top-down processing
closure
proximity
affordances
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
affordances

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 9) The segregation of a whole display into objects and background 1 point
is known as:

size constancy
retinal imagery
bottom-up processing
figure-ground organization
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
figure-ground organization

10) A stencil provides a good analogy for the theory of: 1 point

prototype matching
template matching
good continuation
featural analysis
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
template matching

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Week 03: Assignment 03

The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-02-15, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-02-03, 10:36 IST

All questions are Compulsory
Marks [1 x 10 = 10]

1) Broadbent, in proposing his filter theory of attention, argued 1 point

that an attentional filter lets some information through and blocks out
the rest. This filter is based upon:

the meaning of the message

a physical characteristic of the message, such as its location
the importance of the message
the language of the message
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a physical characteristic of the message, such as its location

2) Treisman’s feature integration theory argues that: 1 point

we perceive objects in two distinct stages

we can only process one piece of information at a time

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 we have a flexible capacity for processing information
controlled processes do not interfere with each other the way
automatic processes do
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
we perceive objects in two distinct stages
3) In which of these situations would automatic processing most 1 point
likely take over?

A child who has just learned to read words tries to read paragraphs
An actor steps into the spotlight for the first time and reacts to the
audience
A commuter tries taking a new route to work and gets caught in
traffic
An experienced skier begins a route she has skied five times before
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
An experienced skier begins a route she has skied five times before

4) The concept of attention capture explains that ______. 1 point

most people have nearly limitless attention if they are truly

interested in the task
human attention varies so much that it is impossible to generalize
about it
we automatically notice an object, sound, or scent that differs from
the rest
we are attracted to those who try to capture our attention
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
we automatically notice an object, sound, or scent that differs from the
rest

5) Stroop interference lessens when: 1 point

participants are better readers

participants are given more practice at naming colors
participants are girls rather than boys
participants are encouraged to focus carefully
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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
participants are given more practice at naming colors
6) According to the attention hypothesis of automatization - 1 point

attention is needed during the practice phase of a task

attention determines what gets learned during practice
attention determines what will be remembered from the practice
attention is needed during practice, and determines both what is
learned during practice and what will be remembered from the
practice
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
attention is needed during practice, and determines both what is learned
during practice and what will be remembered from the practice

7) Noticing a red flower among a field of purple flowers illustrates 1 point

______.

the attention capture phenomenon

the cocktail party effect
the bottleneck of attention
a shadowing task
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the attention capture phenomenon

8) Walking is to ______ as learning a new language is to ______. 1 point

top-down processing; bottom-up processing

controlled processing; automatic processing
automatic processing; controlled processing
bottom-up processing; top-down processing
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
automatic processing; controlled processing

9) In Kahneman’s model of attention, allocation of mental 1 point

resources is affected by preferences for certain kinds of tasks over
others. These preferences are known as:

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 enduring dispositions
arousal states
momentary intentions
late selection preferences
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
enduring dispositions
10) According to ____ theory, we never actually acquire unattended 1 point
material at all.

schema
bottleneck
attenuation
filter
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
schema

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Week 04: Assignment 04

The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-02-22, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-02-10, 14:03 IST

All Questions are Compulsory.
Marks [1 x 10 = 10]

1) The recency effect is through to result from participants’ use of: 1 point

sensory memory
short-term memory
long-term memory
either sensory or short-term memory
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
either sensory or short-term memory

2) The fact that the size of the memory set does affect search time 1 point
in short-term memory suggests that:

search is a serial process

search is a parallel process

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 search is self-terminating
search is exhaustive
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
search is a serial process
3) The phonological loop is to ______ as the visuospatial sketchpad 1 point
is to ______.

sounds; images
images; sounds
short-term memory; long-term memory
long-term memory; short-term memory
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
sounds; images

4) You are participating in a study in which you are presented 1 point

with an array of letters. However, you are asked to report only the top
line of five rows (much like an eye exam). This process best illustrates a
______ method.

full-report
delayed-report
varied-report
partial-report
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
partial-report

5) Higher working memory capacity means that an individual: 1 point

is more susceptible to interference

has quicker reaction times in identifying target letters
is better able to control his/her cognitive focus
has lower ability to reason from premises
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
is better able to control his/her cognitive focus

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 6)The main distinction between “short-term memory” and 1 point
“working memory” hinges on:

the kind of storage (short vs. longer term)

the kind of coding used (acoustic vs. imaginal)
the capacity (limited to 7+2 items vs. unlimited)
the emphasis on static structure vs. active processing
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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the emphasis on static structure vs. active processing

7) Which of the following is the correct order of memory 1 point

formation?

encoding, storage, retrieval

interference, retrieval, encoding
storage, interference, retrieval
encoding, retrieval, storage
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
encoding, storage, retrieval

8) Long-term memory storage appears to be ______. 1 point

smaller than short-term memory storage

unlimited for visual memories only
limited to five to nine items
unlimited
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
unlimited

9) Unattended information is stored briefly in: 1 point

sensory memory
short-term memory
long-term memory
working memory

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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
sensory memory
10) Words from the beginning of a list are more likely to be recalled 1 point
than words from the middle of the list. This phenomenon is known as the
_____ effect.

recency
primacy
forgetting
interference
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
primacy

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Week 5: Assignment 5
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-03-01, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-02-18, 00:31 IST

All Questions are Compulsory.
Marks [ 1 x 10 ]

1) Ebbinghaus’s forgetting curve demonstrates that: 1 point

forgetting is rapid at first and then levels off.

forgetting is slow at first and then speeds up.

forgetting occurs at a steady pace, beginning immediately after learning.

no forgetting occurs until 24 hours after learning.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
forgetting is rapid at first and then levels off.

2) A retrieval cue will be most effective when it is highly distinctive or unusual, according 1 point
to the principle of:

cue overload.

encoding specificity.

mood dependence.

state dependence.
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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cue overload.

3) You meant to visit the campus bookstore before it closed, but you do not remember that1 point
you wanted to do that until two hours after closing time. This scenario is a failure of which type of
memory?

prospective

implicit

explicit

serial position

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
prospective

4) Processing the meaning of information is known as ______. 1 point

interpretive processing

elaborative encoding

iconic processing

linear encoding

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
elaborative encoding

5) Memories that are consciously recollected are called _______ memories. 1 point

explicit

implicit

cognitive

incidental

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
explicit

6) Bartlett’s research on the retelling of stories shows that over time, the same person’s 1 point
recall:

is remarkably consistent.

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 actually improves.

becomes more distorted.

loses a few details but retains most accurately

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
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becomes more distorted.

7) A retrieval cue will be effective if and only if it reinstates the context of the to-be- 1 point
remembered event, according to the principle of:

levels of processing.

mnemonic learning.

encoding specificity

working memory.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
encoding specificity

8) A neural process by which memories are strengthened and more permanently stored in 1 point
the brain is ______.

interference

encoding

consolidation

memorization

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
consolidation

9) Proactive interference refers to the fact that: 1 point

new material can disrupt the recall of previously learned material.

previously learned material can disrupt the learning of new material.

the passage of time leads to memory decay.

active interference can strengthen a memory trace.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
previously learned material can disrupt the learning of new material.

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10) Your memory for how to ride a bicycle is an example of ______ memory. 1 point

explicit

implicit

declarative

procedural

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
procedural

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Week 6: Assignment 6
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-03-08, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-03-01, 23:55 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [1 x 10 = 10]

1) Properties and facts are stored at the highest level possible, 1 point
according to the principle of:

encoding specificity
connectionism
cognitive economy
typicality
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cognitive economy

2) In Anderson’s ACT model, that part of declarative memory that 1 point

is very highly activated at any particular moment is called:

procedural memory
iconic memory
working memory

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 declarative memory
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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working memory
3) A result in which more common members of a category show a 1 point
processing advantage is known as the ______.

typicality effect
family resemblance view
similarity effect
prototype approach
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
typicality effect

4) Which of the following is an example of a less typical member 1 point

of the category of “furniture”?

chair
sofa
table
lamp
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
lamp

5) The word superiority effect is related to the idea of: 1 point

cognitive economy
schemata
typicality
spreading activation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
spreading activation

6) Contrary to the predictions of hierarchical models, Rips, 1 point

Shoben, and Smith have found that people can verify the statement “A
pig is an animal”:

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 faster than “A pig is a mammal.”
faster than “A dog is an animal.”
faster than “A pig is actually very clean.”
faster than “A pig is a bird.”
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
faster than “A pig is a mammal.”
7) According to Anderson, procedural memory represents 1 point
information as:

words.
pictures.
production rules.
words and pictures
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
production rules.

8)Which of these examples is the poorest fit for the concept of a 1 point
game?

a spinning top
poker
tic-tac-toe
rock-paper-scissors
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a spinning top

9) Collins and Loftus’s spreading activation theory differs from the 1 point
hierarchical network theory in that:

it dispenses with the idea of cognitive economy

it relies on the assumption of hierarchical structure.
it cannot account for the typicality effect.
it makes stronger predictions than hierarchical models.
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
it dispenses with the idea of cognitive economy
10) Aschema for a routine event, such as going to the dentist, is 1 point
called a:

concept
category.
exemplar.
script.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
script.

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Week 7: Assignment 7
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-03-15, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-03-11, 12:42 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 = 10]

1) The prototype of a category is a(n) ______ of the important 1 point

features of its members.

discussion
detailed list
weighted average
exemplar
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
weighted average

2) A ________ is a mental representation of some object, event, or 1 point

pattern.

category
concept

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 script
memory
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
concept
3) Implicit learning is also known as: 1 point

analytic concept formation.

nonanalytic concept formation.
knowledge-based concept formation.
nominal-kind learning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
nonanalytic concept formation.

4) The _____ view of concepts argues that concepts include 1 point

representations of at least some individual instances and not only
abstract summaries.

prototype
exemplar
schemata
both exemplar and schemata
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
both exemplar and schemata

5) Which of the following factors does NOT encourage a person to 1 point

store information about particular exemplars, according to Brooks?

The task requires one to learn information that distinguishes

between individual instances.
The relevant dimensions of the stimuli are not obvious.
Instances can belong to many categories simultaneously.
We know in advance how we will be called upon to use our newly
acquired information later.
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
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We know in advance how we will be called upon to use our newly
acquired information later.
6) Which of the following is true regarding schemata? 1 point

A schema refers to something smaller and more specific than a

concept.
Schemata are passive rather than active.
A schema contains only fixed parts, never variables.
Schemata can indicate relationships among various pieces of
information
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Schemata can indicate relationships among various pieces of
information

7) The ______ view of concepts argues that a person uses his/her 1 point
theories about the way the world works to justify the classification of
instances in the same category.

classical
exemplar
schema
knowledge-based
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
knowledge-based

8) Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the classical view of 1 point

concepts?

It proposes that concepts are mentally represented by lists of

features.
It assumes that membership in a category is clear-cut.
It accurately predicts the typicality effect.
“Necessary” and “sufficient” features play an important role in the
theory.
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
It accurately predicts the typicality effect.
9)“Characteristic features” and “family resemblance” are 1 point
important aspects of the _________ view of concepts.

classical
prototype
exemplar
schema
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
prototype

10) Which of the following is a good example of a superordinate 1 point

level of categorization?

apple
banana
Fuji apple
Fruit
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Fruit

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Week 8: Assignment 8
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-03-22, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-03-11, 12:42 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 = 10]

1) Several mnemonic devices, including the method of loci, the 1 point

pegword method, and the method of interacting images, have in common
their reliance on:

verbal rehearsal.
creating a story.
visual imagery.
connecting new information to well-known information
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
visual imagery.

2) When comparing people’s speed at reasoning with abstract 1 point

concepts (smarter– dumber), spatial concepts (above–below), and visual
relationships (cleaner–dirtier), Knauff and Johnson found that ______
relationships had the slowest performance.

abstract

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 spatial
visual
abstract and visual
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
visual
3)When an experimenter gives subtle cues to participants about 1 point
how to behave, we say that a(n) ______ has occurred.

experimenter-expectancy effect
double-blind design
implicit error
external validity
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
experimenter-expectancy effect

4) Stephen Kosslyn believes that mental images are represented 1 point

______.

in black and white

spatially
propositionally
in patterns
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
spatially

5) Paivio’s ____ hypothesis argues that long-term memory contains 1 point

two separate systems that represent information in verbal and visual
forms, respectively.

picture-word
dual code
visio-verbal
relational-organizational
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
dual code
6) Your mental map of your campus is probably: 1 point

larger than reality.

smaller than reality.
more regular, with more straight lines and right angles, than
reality.
less regular, with fewer straight lines and right angles, than reality
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
more regular, with more straight lines and right angles, than reality.

7) Objects are usually easier to remember because they are ______, 1 point
whereas concepts tend to be harder to remember because they are
______.

auditory; visual
visual; auditory
abstract; concrete
concrete; abstract
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
concrete; abstract

8) You vividly remember the place and time you first heard that a 1 point
favorite relative of yours was seriously ill. This is an example of a ______
memory.

geographic
flashbulb
wayfinding
Pegword
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
flashbulb

9) The relational-organizational hypothesis is supported by: 1 point

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 the effectiveness of the method of loci.
the fact that concrete words are recalled better than abstract
words.
the fact that noninteractive images do not facilitate recall whereas
interactive images do facilitate recall.
the effectiveness of the pegword method.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the fact that noninteractive images do not facilitate recall whereas
interactive images do facilitate recall.
10) A propositional representation is thought to be ______ in nature. 1 point

verbal
visual
both verbal and visual
neither verbal nor visual
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
neither verbal nor visual

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Assignment submitted on 2023-03-28, 12:23 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 = 10 ]

1)Infinite combinations of ideas can be expressed in language. In 1 point

other words, language is:

regular
interpersonal.
productive.
referential
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
productive.

2) Which of the following is an example of a directive speech act? 1 point

Open the door.

I thank you for helping me.
Harry is Catholic.
I now pronounce you man and wife

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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Open the door.
3) We notice ambiguities in sentences: 1 point

all the time.

in “garden path” sentences.
when they are humorous.
when they make no sense at all
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
in “garden path” sentences.

4)According to most experts in the field, what is the primary 1 point

purpose of language?

control
communication
identification
isolation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
communication

5) Which of the following is NOT true of story grammars? 1 point

They have variables that are filled in differently for different

stories.
They help identify units of a story.
They specify how one unit of a story relates to other units.
We typically have better recall of stories that do not conform to
expected story grammars, because they warrant more attention
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
We typically have better recall of stories that do not conform to expected
story grammars, because they warrant more attention

6) Did she say “many” or “men knee”? This type of ambiguity is 1 point
referred to as:

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 phonetic.
lexical.
syntactic.
semantic
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
phonetic.
7) Meaning is to ______ as grammar is to ______. 1 point

semantics; pragmatics
phonology; syntax
syntax; semantics
semantics; syntax
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
semantics; syntax

8) While sitting in class listening to your professor’s lecture, a 1 point

student sneezes. Miraculously, you still understand the point the
professor was attempting to make. This illustrates ______.

the phoneme restoration effect

coarticulation application
speech invariance
the morphological inviolability effect
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the phoneme restoration effect

9) Fodor’s modularity hypothesis proposes that: 1 point

language processing actually encompasses several subskills

(modules).
in understanding language, we separate sentences and phrases into
individual units known as modules.
thought processes are dependent upon the language we use to
think.

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 certain language processes operate independently of other
cognitive processes such as memory and attention.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
certain language processes operate independently of other cognitive
processes such as memory and attention.
10) Speech acts in which the utterance itself is the action—such as 1 point
“You’re fired!”—are considered to be which type of speech act?

assertive
commissive
expressive
declaration
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
declaration

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The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
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Assignment submitted on 2023-03-28, 12:29 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 = 10 ]

1) A(n) _______ problem has a clear goal, a small set of starting information, and rules 1 point
about
how to attain the goal.

classic

laboratory

well-defined

introspective

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
well-defined

2) The General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program that solves problems in crypt 1 point
arithmetic and logic using:

means-end analysis.

generate-and-test.

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 reasoning by analogy.

introspection

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
means-end analysis.

3) Peter Wason gave participants the sequence “2, 4, 6” and asked them to determine the 1 point
rule
used to generate the sequence. His findings suggest that:

people have difficulty generating possible rules to test.

people generate a rule, then look for information that could support it.

people generate a rule, then look for information that could disconfirm it.

people generate rules, but do not know how to support their rules.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
people generate a rule, then look for information that could support it.

4) Functional ______ is focusing on how things are usually used, while ignoring other 1 point
potential uses.

stubbornness

fixedness

fixation

use

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
fixedness

5) How we mentally represent a problem ______ finding the solution. 1 point

usually helps with

usually hinders

can both help and hinder

has little effect on

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
can both help and hinder

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 6) Which of the following is an example of an ill-defined problem? 1 point

solving Rubik’s Cube puzzle

constructing a proof in geometry

solving an algebra problem

putting together your schedule of classes for next semester

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
putting together your schedule of classes for next semester

7) When you adopt a certain framework or strategy for solving a series of problems, you 1 point
may
fail to see other, more efficient ways of solving some of the problems. This is referred to as:

functional fixedness.

procrastination.

a heuristic.

mental set

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
mental set

8) The strategy of working backward is most effective when: 1 point

there are many possible paths to a solution.

the optimal path leads you temporarily away from your goal.

the backward path is unique.

there are clear subgoals before the final goal.

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the backward path is unique.

9) The productive processes involved in the Gestalt approach include creating ______ of 1 point
information structured to achieve particular goals.

functional images

mental sets

mental representations

past associations

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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
mental representations

10) A prescribed problem-solving strategy that always leads to the correct solution in 1 point
problems with a single correct solution is a(n) ______, while a problem-solving strategy that
does not always lead to the correct solution is a(n) ______.

heuristic; algorithm

algorithm; insight

insight; heuristic

algorithm; heuristic

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
algorithm; heuristic

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Lec 2 : Reasoning - 02 (unit?unit=73&lesson=75)

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The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-04-12, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-03-31, 10:42 IST

All Questions are Compulsory
Marks [1 x 10 = 10]

1) If a person has five letters in his/her name, then s/he is a Glirple. 1 point
Fred now reasons that anyone who is a Glirple must have five letters in
his/her name. Fred has:

made a correct inference according to modus ponens.

made a correct inference according to modus tollens.
committed the fallacy of denying the antecedent.
committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent.

2) Conclusions that agree with one’s previous beliefs: 1 point

are often judged as valid even when they are not.

are often judged as invalid even when they are not.

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 are more often judged correctly as valid or invalid than
conclusions that disagree with one’s previous beliefs.
lead to biases known as “content effects.”
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
are often judged as valid even when they are not.
3) Manish is debating with his mother about the best way to build 1 point
their new shed. Manish is a very traditional person who likes to employ
tried-and-true logic. What kind of reasoning would Manuel be most
likely to use?

deductive reasoning
inductive reasoning
conditional reasoning
intuitive reasoning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
deductive reasoning

4) In completing Wason’s four-card task, participants usually: 1 point

turn over the two cards that are necessary and sufficient to test the
rule.
turn over all four cards, when only two would have been sufficient.
turn over all four cards, when only one would have been sufficient.
show understanding of modus ponens but neglect modus tollens.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
show understanding of modus ponens but neglect modus tollens.

5) ________ statements are those that are either true or false. 1 point

Syllogistic
Relevant
Propositional
Conditional
No, the answer is incorrect.

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 Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Propositional
6) The ease of reasoning about an analogy depends on all of these 1 point
factors EXCEPT:

the difficulty of comprehending the individual terms in the

analogy.
the reasoner’s knowledge about the individual terms.
the difficulty of finding a relationship between the first two terms.
the reasoner’s amount of training in formal reasoning procedures.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the reasoner’s amount of training in formal reasoning procedures.

7) “If a person is drinking a beer, then the person must be over 19 1 point
years old.” Participants are asked to test this rule using information on
four cards; each card has a person’s beverage on one side and the
person’s age on the other. The four cards are now presented as follows:
“beer,” “coke,” “16 years old,” and “20 years old.” Which of the following
describes the behavior of most college students who complete this
variation of the four-card task?

Most turn over only the “beer” card.

Most turn over the “beer” and “20 years old” cards.
Most turn over the “beer” and “16 years old” cards.
Most turn over the “beer” and “coke” cards.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Most turn over the “beer” and “16 years old” cards.

8)Let p = “Mary got an A on her exam” and q = “John got a C on his 1 point
exam.” In which of the following situations is the statement “p Ú q” true?

Mary and John both got A’s.

Mary got an A and John got a C.
It is true when Mary and John both got A’s, and it is true when
Mary and John both got C’s.
It is true when Mary and John both got A’s, when Mary and John
both got C’s, and when Mary got an A and John got a C.

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 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
It is true when Mary and John both got A’s, when Mary and John both got
C’s, and when Mary got an A and John got a C.
9) Patients with prefrontal cortex damage tend to show deficits in 1 point
their:

intelligence.
semantic memory.
working memory.
inductive reasoning.
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
inductive reasoning.

10) An
argument has deductive validity if it is improbable for the 1 point
premises to be true and the conclusion false.

True
False
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
False

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Lec 1 : Classical Theory of Decision Making (unit?unit=78&lesson=79)

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The due date for submitting this assignment has passed.
Due on 2023-04-19, 23:59 IST.

Assignment submitted on 2023-04-19, 19:41 IST

All questions are Compulsory
Marks [ 1 x 10 = 10 ]

1) Anita is blonde, extremely attractive, and lives in an expensive 1 point

condo. If we judge the probability of Anita’s being a model as quite high
because she resembles our stereotype of a model, we are using the
heuristic of:

representativeness.
availability
framing.
the law of small numbers
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
representativeness.

2) In Kahneman and Tversky’s prospect theory, they hypothesized 1 point

that people tend to ______ low-probability outcomes and ______ high-
probability outcomes.

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 focus on; ignore
ignore; focus on
underweight; overweight
overweight; underweight
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
overweight; underweight
3) People overestimate the frequency of words beginning with the 1 point
letter L, as compared to words that have L as the third letter, because of
the heuristic of:

availability.
representativeness.
anchor and adjust.
hindsight
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
availability.

4) Research on framing suggests that we treat losses: 1 point

less seriously than gains of an equivalent amount.

more seriously than gains of an equivalent amount.
just as seriously as gains of an equivalent amount.
as if they were not possible outcomes at all.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
more seriously than gains of an equivalent amount.

5) Expected utility theory is usually regarded as a ________ model 1 point

of decision making.

descriptive
prescriptive
normative
both descriptive and prescriptive
Yes, the answer is correct.

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 Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
normative
6) You have just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the answer 1 point
to a single 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:

the sunk cost effect.

a framing effect.
the anchor effect.
an illusory correlation.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the sunk cost effect.

7)_____ is a normative model for integrating different dimensions 1 point

and goals of a complex decision.

Expected value
Expected utility
MAUT
Prospect theory
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
MAUT

8)Expert decision makers may rely on intuition and mental 1 point

simulation, according to the _________ model.

image
recognition-primed decision-making
MAUT
elimination-by-aspects
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
recognition-primed decision-making

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 9) Lynette has been playing roulette for an hour. The past eight 1 point
spins have come up black. If Lynette is a victim of the gambler’s fallacy,
then she will tend to bet on black next time.

True

False

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
False

10) Whichof the following is NOT one of the five phases of decision 1 point
making, according to Galotti?

goal setting
information gathering
planning
random choice
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
random choice

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Assignment submitted on 2022-02-08,

18:32 IST
1) Ancient scholars in which field asked the first questions related 1 point
to cognitive psychology?

behaviorism
sociology
biology
philosophy
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
philosophy
2) Which psychologist extensively tested his own memory to 1 point
develop theories of cognition?

Aristotle
Wundt
Ebbinghaus
Chomsky
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
 Accepted Answers:
Ebbinghaus
3) As a graduate student in psychology, you design a study on how 1 point
lawbreakers who get away with their crimes react to news of
others' crimes. Your graduate adviser rejects your study because it is not
______.In other words, it cannot be evaluated through observation

negotiable
testable
accurate
parsimonious
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
testable
4) Wilhelm Wundt and his students used a technique known as 1 point
_________ to study mental states

behaviorism
intensity measurement
componentialism
introspection
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
introspection
5) Cognitive psychology is broad, and thus overlaps with many 1 point
other fields including neuroscience, philosophy, and ______.

chemistry
astronomy
linguistics
robotics
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
linguistics
6) If you think of cognitive processing as a type of information 1 point
processing, then the brain is the ______ and the cognitive
processes themselves are the ______.

hardware; software
response; stimulus
software; hardware
stimulus; response
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 hardware; software
7) What kind of research methodology focuses on intensive 1 point
analyses of a single individual?

surveys
case studies
correlational studies
naturalistic observations
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
case studies
8) Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of 1 point
research methods and measurement?

the gestalt school

functionalism
structuralism
behaviorism
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
behaviorism
9) Using a computer or information processing model would most 1 point
accurately depict which approach to cognition?

embodied cognition
representationalist
linguistic
behaviorist
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
representationalist
10) Which of the following allows us to support claims about 1 point
cause-and-effect relationships?
experiment
introspection
naturalistic observation
controlled observation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
experiment
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Assignment submitted on 2022-02-08,

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1) Which scenario is an example of sensing but not perceiving a 1 point
stimulus?

the music playing in the background while you are studying

the argument you are having with your significant other while cooking
dinner
the music you are singing along to while messaging a friend online
the painting you are working on while talking to your mother

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the music playing in the background while you are studying

2) What is the difference between proximal stimuli and distal stimuli? 1 point

primates perceive distal stimuli, and non-primates perceive proximal

stimuli.
primates perceive proximal stimuli, and non-primates perceive distal
stimuli.
The human brain translates distal stimuli into proximal stimuli
the human brain translates proximal stimulus into distal stimulus
 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
The human brain translates distal stimuli into proximal stimuli

3) Which of these help us estimate objects’ size and distance to aid 1 point
in our perception?

neurons
sensations
stimuli
cues

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cues

4) A stencil provides a good analogy for the theory of: 1 point

prototype matching
template matching
good continuation
featural analysis

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
template matching

5) Which of these psychological approaches focuses on how humans 1 point

use principles of organization to understand our surroundings?

perception-action
computational
gestalt
top-down

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
gestalt

6) If you were to hold a pen in each hand, with one held five inches 1 point
from your face and the other at arm’s length, the one closer to your face will
look larger, even though they are the same size. This is based on cues from
______.

the retinal image

brain functioning
top-down processing
a linear perspective
 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the retinal image

7) ___________ are to visual perception what phonemes are to 1 point

language, according to Biederman

receptors
retinas
distal stimuli
geons
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
geons

8) Prototype matching theory argues that percepts are compared to 1 point

______ in memory

exact stencils
lists of features
idealized representations
abstract dot patterns

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
idealized representations

9) When making a decision, we are likely to weigh all of the possible 1 point
choices we could make. This is most similar to the concept of ______ in
perception

top-down processing
closure
proximity
affordances

Yes, the answer is correct.

Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
affordances

10) According to research, which of these is most important in 1 point

perceiving apparent motion?

nearness
similarity
color
stability
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
similarity
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Assignment submitted on 2022-02-15,

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1) Which of the following is an analogy used to describe attention? 1 point

a filter of information
a key fitting into a lock
a light that turns on and off repeatedly
a barrier that separates the features of the environment
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a filter of information
2) Talking to your friend during class while you are supposed to be 1 point
listening to your professor’s lecture is most similar to ______.

salience
a shadowing task
the cocktail party effect
the dual-task method
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 a shadowing task
3) Treisman’s modified filter model of attention suggests that some 1 point
information passes through, but only after it has been ranked in
terms of ______.

importance
definition
difficulty
currency
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
importance
4) Stroop interference lessens when 1 point

participants are better readers

participants are given more practice at naming colors
participants are girls rather than boys
participants are encouraged to focus carefully
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
participants are given more practice at naming colors
5) Our attention has been said to involve a ______ that filters out 1 point
everything except the information we are attending to

bottleneck
net
switchboard
bridge
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
bottleneck
6) Which of these is known to influence the cocktail party effect? 1 point

a person’s level of extroversion or introversion

the salience of the message
a person’s intelligence
cultural differences in filtering abilities
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the salience of the message
7) Noticing a red flower among a field of purple flowers illustrates 1 point
______.
 the attention capture phenomenon
the cocktail party effect
the bottleneck of attention
a shadowing task
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the attention capture phenomenon
8) Certain stimuli seem to jump off the page at the viewer, causing 1 point
an involuntary shift of attention that is referred to as

the Stroop effect

attentional capture
attenuation
the cocktail party effect
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
attentional capture
9) In Kahneman’s model of attention, allocation of mental 1 point
resources is affected by preferences for certain kinds of tasks over
others. These preferences are known as
enduring dispositions
arousal states
momentary intentions
task difficulty variables
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
enduring dispositions
10) Which of the following is an example of a controlled 1 point
process, for most people?
driving
reading
playing a well-practiced video game
sending a telegraph message
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
sending a telegraph message
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21:46 IST
1) Imagine that you are sitting in class, listening to your professor 1 point
lecture, and viewing slides on the projector that she is flipping
through. Your brain understands these slides as varying forms of light. This
translation is an example of ______.

storage
encoding
retrieval
a translator
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
encoding
2) The briefest form of memory is ______ memory 1 point

sensory
short-term
working
long-term
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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sensory
3) The capacity of short-term memory is ______. 1 point

five plus or minus two bits of information

seven plus or minus two bits of information
five plus or minus two words
seven plus or minus two words
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
seven plus or minus two bits of information
4) The suffix effect relates to which type of memory? 1 point

iconic
echoic
short term
working
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
echoic
5) You are participating in a study in which you are presented with 1 point
an array of letters. However, you are asked to report only the top
line of five rows (much like an eye exam). This process best illustrates a
______ method.

full-report
delayed-report
varied-report
partial-report
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
partial-report
6) The fact that the size of the memory set does affect search time 1 point
in short-term memory suggests that:

search is a serial process

search is a parallel process
search is self-terminating
search is exhaustive
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
search is a serial process
7) You recently bought a new phone and had to change your 1 point
number. However, your old phone number keeps interfering with your
ability to remember your new one. This is an example of ______.

retroactive interference
proactive interference
executive retrieval
overactive retrieval
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
proactive interference
8) Higher working memory capacity means that an individual 1 point

is more susceptible to interference

has quicker reaction times in identifying target letters
is better able to control his/her cognitive focus
has lower ability to reason from premises
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
is better able to control his/her cognitive focus
9) In the absence of rehearsal, short-term memory tends to 1 point

last about 20 seconds

last about 8 seconds
decay slowly over 24 hours
decay slowly over a week.
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
last about 20 seconds
10) Repeating a phone number to yourself to hold it in memory 1 point
while you dial it would use which component of working memory?
the visuospatial sketchpad
the phonological loop
the episodic buffer
both the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
both the visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop
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Suppose you want to become a memory champion. 1 point
1)
You could achieve your goal by working hard to ______.
develop a photographic memory
develop superior autobiographical memory
use mnemonics
use prospective memory tasks
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
use mnemonics
“A natural process that occurs when information is
2) 1 point
unable to be retrieved from memory” is the definition of
______.
cognition
remembering
forgetting
storage
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
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forgetting
3) While studying for a psychology exam, you devise 1 point
a poem about Piaget’s stages of development to help you
remember them. This is an example of ______.
shallow processing
deep processing
spacing effects
storage
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
deep processing
Both encoding and retrieval together influence
4) 1 point
memory performance in ______.
depth-of-processing effects
environmental-dependent effects
mood-dependent effects
transfer-appropriate processing
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
transfer-appropriate processing
5) Study is to ______ as tests are to ______. 1 point

retrieval; encoding
encoding; retrieval
mnemonics; processing
processing; mnemonics
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
encoding; retrieval
6) You are designing a study that asks subjects, 1 point
“Which of these psychological concepts have you heard of?”
and then presents a list of concepts. Which type of retrieval
task is this?
recall
recognition
implicit
prospective
 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
recognition
7) You meant to visit the campus bookstore before it 1 point
closed, but you do not remember that you wanted to do that
until two hours after closing time. This scenario is a failure of
which type of memory?
prospective
implicit
explicit
serial position
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
prospective
8) After you have memorized a list of words, you are 1 point
most likely to demonstrate ______ if you are tested on the
list immediately
fading of memory
the primacy effect
the recency effect
strongest recall for the middle of the list
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the recency effect
9) Context effects and state-dependent learning 1 point
effects occur:
for recall tests only
for recognition tests only
for both recall and recognition
for paired-associate tests only
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
for recall tests only
10) According to the retrieval cue explanation of 1 point
interference, you are more likely to forget where you parked
your car in a lot where:
you have never parked before
you have always parked in the same place
 you have parked frequently, but in many different
spaces
you parked a year ago, but not more recently
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
you have parked frequently, but in many different spaces
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Properties and facts are stored at the highest level
1) 1 point
possible, according to the principle of:
encoding specificity
connectionism
cognitive economy
typicality
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cognitive economy
2) The word superiority effect is related to the idea of 1 point

cognitive economy
schemata
typicality
spreading activation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
spreading activation
 3) Studies of semantic memory have shown that in a 1 point
lexical decision task, people are faster at responding to the
stimulus “bread” if it is paired with a stimulus such as:
rencle
dog
island
butter
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
butter
4) According to Anderson, procedural memory 1 point
represents information as
words
pictures
production rules
words and pictures
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
production rules
5)According to the notion of cognitive economy, a 1 point
characteristic like “has wings” would be stored along with
which of the following semantic memory nodes?
bird
robin
hummingbird
ostrich
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
bird
6)Collins and Loftus created a revised semantic network 1 point
model to ______.
violate the transitive inheritance of properties
give each connection between concepts the same weight
try to account for typicality effects
show that people do not use hierarchies when organizing
concepts
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 try to account for typicality effects
7) Which type of organizational approach was 1 point
proposed by Collins and Quillian and includes “has,” “is,” and
“can” links?
super-specialized
verification
resourceful
cognitive
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
cognitive
8) In picturing a scientist, you may automatically think 1 point
of a person with a white lab coat, disheveled hair, and
glasses. This is an example of a(n) ______.
exemplar
prototype
stereotype
definition
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
stereotype
9) Collins and Quillian’s hierarchical network model 1 point
would predict that which of the following statements would
take the LONGEST time to verify?
Boo is a Pomeranian
Boo has a popular Facebook page
Boo is a living thing
Boo is a dog
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Boo is a living thing
10) Primingin lexical decision tasks may be explained 1 point
by the idea of:
episodic memory
encoding specificity
spreading activation
anterograde amnesia
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
spreading activation
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1)“Characteristic features” and “family resemblance” 1 point
are important aspects of the _________ view of concepts
classical
prototype
exemplar
schema
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
prototype
2)A mental representation of a category of things in 1 point
the world is known as a(n) ______.
stereotype
prototype
example
concept
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 concept
3)If an object is ______ typical of a concept, then 1 point
people will recall ______ members of that concept
less; more
more; fewer
less; fewer
approximately; no
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
less; fewer
4) Imagine seeing a hairless cat for the first time. You 1 point
try to rationalize whether this is in fact a cat, and you reason,
“It has four legs, two pointy ears, a pointy nose, and claws; it
is probably a cat.” This exemplifies the ______.
stored network view
feature comparisons approach
cognitive economy
neuroscience-inspired approach
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
feature comparisons approach
5) Which of the following is true regarding schemata? 1 point

A schema refers to something smaller and more

specific than a concept
Schemata are passive rather than active
A schema contains only fixed parts, never variables
Schemata can indicate relationships among various
pieces of information
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Schemata can indicate relationships among various pieces
of information
6)In psychology, “family resemblance” means that 1 point
people, objects, or concepts in a category ______.
share overlapping sets of features
share a single set of defining features
may seem identical but differ in important ways
may seem identical but differ in subtle ways
 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
share overlapping sets of features
7) The prototype of a category is a(n) ______ of the 1 point
important features of its members.
discussion
detailed list
weighted average
exemplar
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
weighted average
8) Implicit learning is also known as: 1 point

analytic concept formation

nonanalytic concept formation
knowledge-based concept formation
nominal-kind learning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
nonanalytic concept formation
9) The schema view of concept formation assumes 1 point
that:
there are clear boundaries among individual schemata
there is cognitive economy among concepts
information is abstracted across instances
no information is stored about actual instances
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
information is abstracted across instances
10) You might have a “script” for 1 point

what a classroom looks like

what a “pet” is
what a “cat” is
what happens when you go to the barber/hairstylist
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
what happens when you go to the barber/hairstylist
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Assignment submitted on 2022-03-22,

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1)Paivio’s ____ hypothesis argues that long-term 1 point
memory contains two separate systems that represent
information in verbal and visual forms, respectively

picture-word
dual code
visuo-verbal
symbolic distance
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
dual code
2) Several mnemonic devices, including the method of1 point
loci, the pegword method, and the method of interacting
images, have in common their reliance on:
verbal rehearsal
creating a story
visual imagery
use of rhyme
 Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
visual imagery
3)The relational-organizational hypothesis is 1 point
supported by:
the effectiveness of the method of loci
the fact that concrete words are recalled better than
abstract words
the fact that noninteractive images do not facilitate
recall whereas interactive images do facilitate recall
the effectiveness of the pegword method
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the fact that noninteractive images do not facilitate recall
whereas interactive images do facilitate recall
4)Finke theorized that there are _____ principles of 1 point
mental imagery
two
three
four
five
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
five
5) Images can prime the visual pathway, making it 1 point
easier to detect a faint stimulus. This is an example of:
perceptual equivalence
spatial equivalence
structural equivalence
transformational equivalence
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
perceptual equivalence
6) Some theorists believe that there is a single code 1 point
for all types of information; this code is known as a _______
representation
visual
 pictorial
verbal
propositional
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
propositional
7) How would you create an accurate, detailed mental 1 point
picture of a place you had never been?
Read about the place and look at pictures of it
Invent sounds and sensations that might happen there
Create a mental picture of a similar familiar place and alter
details
It is not possible to do this
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Read about the place and look at pictures of it
8) Images are most often ______. 1 point

visual
auditory
olfactory
tactile
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
visual
9) Objects are usually easier to remember because they 1 point
are ______, whereas concepts tend to be harder to remember
because they are ______.
auditory; visual
visual; auditory
abstract; concrete
concrete; abstract
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
concrete; abstract
10) In the ______, words that rhyme with numbers are 1 point
placeholders in an ordered list
pegword mnemonic
 method of loci
concreteness effect
bizarreness effect
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
pegword mnemonic
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1)According to most experts in the field, what is the 1 point
primary purpose of language?
control
communication
identification
isolation
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
communication
2) Meaning is to ______ as grammar is to ______ 1 point

semantics; pragmatics
phonology; syntax
syntax; semantics
semantics; syntax
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 semantics; syntax
3)The sentence “The man gave a cloud to his friend” 1 point
has questionable ______
syntax
morphemes
semantics
orthography
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
semantics
4) The subfield of linguistics that examines the use of 1 point
language within particular contexts is called ______.
semantics
syntax
orthography
pragmatics
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
pragmatics
5) Preposing (moving a certain part of a sentence to 1 point
the beginning of the sentence) is syntactically “legal” when:
the moved segment begins with a noun
the moved segment contains a subject and a predicate
the moved segment begins with a verb
the moved segment constitutes a complete constituent
of a certain type
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the moved segment constitutes a complete constituent of a
certain type
6) Choose the correct hierarchy of language 1 point
processing
sounds or letters > words > phrases > sentences
words > sounds or letters > phrases > sentences
sentences > phrases > sounds or letters > words
phrases > sentences > words > sounds or letters
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
 Accepted Answers:
sounds or letters > words > phrases > sentences
7) You hear your classmate say, “I’m just going to 1 point
hang around until class starts.” Which aspect of language
structure helps you understand that your classmate means
"waiting" and not actually hanging from a doorway?
pragmatics
syntax
morphology
semantics
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
pragmatics
8)When you are having a conversation with 1 point
someone, you often do not stop between words to
emphasize that you are saying distinct words. This is known
as
specialization
coarticulation
functionalism
lateralization
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
coarticulation
9) “I saw a bat in the corner.” Does bat refer to a 1 point
baseball bat, or a flying mammal? This confusion illustrates a
problem of:
ambiguity
anomaly
synonymy
self-contradiction
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
ambiguity
10) You are reading the sentence “Flywheels are one 1 point
of the oldest mechanical devices known to man.” On which
of the following words are you likely to spend the LEAST
time fixating?
Flywheels
 oldest
devices
to
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
to
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1) A problem is ______. 1 point

when you do not have experience with a situation

when a situation is not as you expected it to be
a situation in which another person disagrees with your
position
a situation in which there is a difference between a
current state and a desired goal state
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a situation in which there is a difference between a current
state and a desired goal state
2)______ is a common barrier to our ability to solve 1 point
problems
typicality
functional fixedness
analogical transfer
 means-end strategy
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
functional fixedness
3)The problem-solving technique of ______ involves 1 point
comparing the goal with the starting point, thinking of
possible ways to overcome the distance between them, and
choosing the best one
generate-and-test
means-end analysis
reasoning by analogy
mental set
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
means-end analysis
4) In research on mental search of a “problem space,” 1 point
a “path” is:
any connection between two nodes
a sequence of moves beginning at the initial state and
ending at the final goal state
the single solution to a problem
the most efficient solution to a problem
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a sequence of moves beginning at the initial state and
ending at the final goal state
5) A Sudoku puzzle is an example of a(n) ______. 1 point

ill-defined problem
well-defined problem
trial-and-error problem
functional fixedness problem
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
well-defined problem
6) Defining and representing a problem is the process 1 point
of ______.
making a list of the problems you have already
experienced and applying it to the current problem
 redefining the knowledge needed to solve the problem
while resolving issues with functional fixedness
focusing on whether the problem is ill-defined or well-
defined and if it is subject to functional fixedness
stating the scope and goal of the problem and
organizing the knowledge needed for addressing it
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
stating the scope and goal of the problem and organizing
the knowledge needed for addressing it
7) Think of 10 animal names that begin with the letter 1 point
R. This problem would probably be solved using a ______
technique
means-end analysis
reasoning-by-analogy
gestalt restructuring
productive-thinking
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
productive-thinking
8) Mental set: 1 point

can only be induced by large amounts of practice

can lead us to make unwarranted assumptions about a
problem
involves the use of analogy to solve a problem
aids problem solving because it supplies an efficient
problem representation
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
can lead us to make unwarranted assumptions about a
problem
9) Trial-and-error approaches are successful when 1 point
there are ______.
many variations on a few basic solutions
several risky and improbable solutions
relatively few possible solutions
many conflicting solutions
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
 relatively few possible solutions
10) Whilebaking a cake, you say the steps out loud as 1 point
you are carrying them out. This is an example of ______.
pathology
functional fixedness
retrospection
introspection
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
introspection
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Which type of reasoning results in conclusions that
1) 1 point
contain new information?
inductive reasoning
deductive reasoning
invalid reasoning
both inductive and deductive reasoning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
inductive reasoning
“All dogs are mammals. All mammals have hair. All
2) 1 point
dogs have hair.” This is an example of ______
 heuristic reasoning
conducive reasoning
conditional reasoning
syllogistic reasoning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
syllogistic reasoning
3)When Wason’s four-card task is replaced with an 1 point
everyday problem about checking the identification of people
who are drinking Coke and beer,
people still neglect modus tollens in their responses
people turn over all four cards instead of the two that
are necessary and sufficient
people turn over only one card instead of the two that
are necessary and sufficient
about 75% of participants solve the problem correctly
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
about 75% of participants solve the problem correctly
4) Past events seem “inevitable” due to the action of 1 point
the:
framing effect
hindsight bias
gambler's fallacy
availability heuristic
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
hindsight bias
5) ______ reasoning is a process by which “if” 1 point
statements lead to conclusions
Deductive
Conditional
Inductive
Syllogistic
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Conditional
6) ______ statements are those that are either true or 1 point
false
syllogistic
relevant
propositional
conditional
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
propositional
7) “If my mother visits today, I am not going to cook 1 point
dinner. She has just arrived. I am not going to cook dinner.”
This is an example of ______.
propositional reasoning
a syllogism
counterfactual thinking
an unconditional statement
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
propositional reasoning
8)______ is about absolute truth, while ______ 1 point
examines the likelihood of a conclusion being true
deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning
inductive reasoning; deductive reasoning
heuristic reasoning; analytical reasoning
heuristic reasoning; syllogistic reasoning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning
9)Evans (1984, 2006) suggests that when we reason 1 point
we use one system based on heuristic processes and
another based on ______ processes
dual-process
inductive
analytic
rapid-decision
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
analytic
 10) Forrest Gump’s famous quote, “Life is like a box of 1 point
chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get,” is an
example of ______
surface approaches
category induction
causal reasoning
analogical reasoning
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
analogical reasoning
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1)In Kahneman and Tversky’s prospect theory, they 1 point
hypothesized that people tend to ______ low-probability
outcomes and ______ high-probability outcomes
focus on; ignore
ignore; focus on
underweight; overweight
overweight; underweight
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
overweight; underweight
Expected utility theory is usually regarded as a
2) 1 point
________ model of decision making
descriptive
prescriptive
normative
 both descriptive and prescriptive
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
normative
3)The ideal model of decision making involves 1 point
______
discussing options with peers
ranking criteria in terms of their importance
following your instinct
deciding only when the outcome is certain
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
ranking criteria in terms of their importance
4)The mental activities that take place in choosing 1 point
among alternatives are collectively called
problem solving
inductive reasoning
rational thought
decision making
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
decision making
5)According to psychologists, human decision 1 point
making often falls short of optimality because
there is not enough information available to make a
rational decision
one cannot be rational under conditions of uncertainty
the information available overwhelms the cognitive
processes
rationality assumes a higher degree of intelligence than
most people have
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
the information available overwhelms the cognitive
processes
6)Which of the following is NOT one of the five 1 point
phases of decision making
 goal setting
information gathering
planning
random choice
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
random choice
7) Cognitive illusions 1 point

tell us that our decision-making system is seriously

flawed
tell us something about the way our cognitive systems
work
cannot tell us anything about how to design programs
to improve the quality of decisions
represent serious biases in our real-world decisions
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
tell us something about the way our cognitive systems
work
8) When we assess probability by judging the ease 1 point
with which relevant examples come to mind, we are using
the heuristic of
representativeness
availability
framing
hindsight
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
availability
9) The tendency to seek out information that supports 1 point
our current beliefs is called
a believability effect
a content effect
a confirmation bias
false induction
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
a confirmation bias
10) Normative models of decision making describe 1 point

how we ought to make decisions in realistic

circumstances
ideal performance under ideal circumstances
what people actually do when they make decisions
cognitive illusions
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
ideal performance under ideal circumstances
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Week 01: History 1) That guest star on your favorite television show looks familiar. You’re sure that you’ve seen 1 point
and research him before, but you can’t think of his name. The fact that you know you have seen the face before,
methods of however, illustrates the cognitive process of
cognitive
psychology
perception

Week 02: Object attention

Perception and
recognition
Recognition
recall
Week 03:
Attentional No, the answer is incorrect.
Processes and Score: 0
Cognition
Accepted Answers:
recognition
Week 04:
Memory 2) The belief that most of our abilities and tendencies are with us from birth is known as 1 point
Introduction
nativism
Week 05: Long
Term Memory empiricism

associationism
Week 06:
Memory of introspection
General
Knowledge No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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Concept nativism
Formation
3) The belief that psychological phenomena cannot be reduced to simple elements but must 1 point

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Problem Solving
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Reasoning
4) Noam Chomsky revolutionized the field of _________ and showed how behaviorism could 1 point
not adequately explain language
Week 12:
Decision Making
neuroscience
Pre Requisite computer science
Assignment
human factors
Quiz :
linguistics
Assessment 00
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
linguistics

5) The term “limited capacity processors” suggests that 1 point

computers have limited memory storage

human beings can only do so many things at once

neurons can only fire at a certain rate

processing in the brain occurs in parallel

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
human beings can only do so many things at once

6) Ecological validity refers to the extent to which 1 point

things studied really do occur in the real world

one can isolate the causes of behaviors or reactions

one can explain the phenomena that are observed

one can predict new phenomena based on current results

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
things studied really do occur in the real world

7) A body of knowledge structured according to what its proponents consider important, which 1 point
guides research topics and research methods, is called a ___________

paradigm

hypothesis

methodology

metaphor

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
paradigm

8) Which approach is most consistent with the way the brain functions? 1 point

information processing

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evolutionary

ecological

connectionist

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
connectionist

9) Theories about cognition date back to the days of Aristotle and Plato 1 point

True

False

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
True

10)If you want to learn about cause and effect, you must use the experimental method 1 point

True

False

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
True

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methods of him before, but you can’t think of his name. The fact that you know you have seen the face before,
cognitive however, illustrates the cognitive process of
psychology

Lesson 01: A perception

Brief History of attention
Cognitive
Psychology-01 recognition

Lesson 02: A recall

Brief History of
Cognitive No, the answer is incorrect.
Psychology-02 Score: 0

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Studying recognition
Cognition
2) The philosopher John Locke was a strong believer in ______, which rests on the 1 point
Text Material 01 assumption that knowledge comes from an individual’s own experience
: History and
Research
Methods of nativism
Cognitive empiricism
Psychology
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cognitive
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psychology
empiricism
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Memory Score: 0
Introduction
Accepted Answers:
Week 05: Long nativism
Term Memory
4) The term “limited capacity processors” suggests that 1 point

Week 06:
Memory of computers have limited memory storage
General human beings can only do so many things at once
Knowledge
neurons can only fire at a certain rate
Week 07: processing in the brain occurs in parallel
Concept
Formation No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 08: Visual
and Spatial Accepted Answers:
Memory human beings can only do so many things at once

5) Which of the following is NOT an example of a cognitive process? 1 point

Week 09: Human
Language Skills
attention

Week 10: perception

Thought
Process and reflex
Problem Solving
problem solving

Week 11: No, the answer is incorrect.

Reasoning Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Week 12:
reflex
Decision Making
6) Historians date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 laboratory of 1 point
Pre Requisite
Assignment
Williams James

Wilhelm Wundt

John Locke

Edward Titchener

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Wilhelm Wundt

7) The belief that psychological phenomena cannot be reduced to simple elements but must 1 point
be studied in their entirety is central to the school known as

structuralism

gestalt psychology

functionalism

behaviorism

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
gestalt psychology

8) The _______________ was a rejection of the prevailing assumption that mental events 1 point
were beyond the realm of scientific study

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cognitive revolution

behaviorist rebellion

human factors movement

psychodynamic theory

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
cognitive revolution

9) The term _________ refers to the relevance of the research to the “real world” 1 point

internal validity

evolutionary validity

ecological validity

natural validity

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
ecological validity

10)When the same experimental subjects participate in two different experimental conditions, 1 point
the design is called a _____________ design

between-subjects

case study

quasi-experimental

within-subjects

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
within-subjects

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psychology
proximal stimulus
Week 02: Object retinal image
Perception and
Recognition percept

Lesson 01: No, the answer is incorrect.

Perception:Basic Score: 0
Principles
Accepted Answers:
Lesson 02: distal stimulus
Models of
Perception-01 2) Reversible figures illustrate the principle of 1 point

Lesson 03:
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Models of
Perception-02 size constancy
Text Material 02 dimensionality
: Object
Perception and retinal imagery
Recognition
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Recognition
3) A stencil provides a good analogy for the theory of 1 point
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Week 06:
Memory of 4) Which of the following poses a problem for featural analysis theory? 1 point
General
Knowledge It cannot account for the recognition of degraded stimuli

It cannot account for differences in importance of features

Week 07:
Concept Weights of various features cannot be changed over time
Formation
There is currently no good definition of the concept of a “feature”
Week 08: Visual No, the answer is incorrect.
and Spatial
Score: 0
Memory
Accepted Answers:
Week 09: Human It cannot account for the recognition of degraded stimuli
Language Skills
5) The meaningful interpretation of a proximal stimulus is called the 1 point
Week 10:
Thought percept
Process and
sensation
Problem Solving
distal stimulus
Week 11:
retinal image
Reasoning
No, the answer is incorrect.
Week 12: Score: 0
Decision Making
Accepted Answers:
Pre Requisite percept
Assignment
6) When you let go of a balloon and it floats away from you into the sky, the size of the retinal 1 point
image gets smaller and smaller. However, you do not perceive the balloon as shrinking. This is an
example of

pattern recognition

bottom-up processing

size constancy

figure-ground organization

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
size constancy

7) All Gestalt principles follow the law of 1 point

closure

good continuation

prägnanz

common fate

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
prägnanz

8) A process of perception, beginning with small bits of information gathered from the 1 point
environment and put together in various ways to form a percept, would be described as

bottom-up processing

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top-down processing

theory-driven processing

template matching

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
bottom-up processing

9) Which of the following Gestalt principles relies on movement? 1 point

proximity

similarity

good continuation

common fate

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
common fate

10)___________ are to visual perception what phonemes are to language, according to 1 point
Biederman.

Receptors

Retinas

Distal stimuli

Geons

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Geons

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cognitive
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filter

Week 02: Object dichotic listening

Perception and
bionic listening
Recognition
sustained attention
Week 03:
Attentional No, the answer is incorrect.
Processes and Score: 0
Cognition
Accepted Answers:
Lesson 01 : dichotic listening
Basic Attention
2) Treisman’s theory argues that “unattended” information is actually 1 point
Processes

Lesson 02 : blocked by a mental filter

Models of
Attention attenuated but not entirely blocked

Lesson 03 : never acquired in the first place

Automization
processed to the level of meaning, then repressed
and Attention
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Assessment 03

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Term Memory
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Week 06: enduring dispositions
Memory of
General 4) In the Stroop effect, participants have difficulty correctly naming the color of ink that a word 1 point
Knowledge is written in when

Week 07: the word is unrelated to the topic of color

Concept
Formation the word names the color of ink

the word names a color which is not the ink color

Week 08: Visual
and Spatial the “word” is not a word at all, but a pronounceable nonsense syllable
Memory
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 09: Human
Language Skills Accepted Answers:
the word names a color which is not the ink color
Week 10:
Thought 5) The _______ theory of attention states that there is a very limited amount of information 1 point
Process and that can be attended to at one time; unattended information is blocked out
Problem Solving
filter
Week 11:
Reasoning attenuation

schema
Week 12:
Decision Making cocktail party

No, the answer is incorrect.

Pre Requisite
Score: 0
Assignment
Accepted Answers:
filter

6) When listening to a conversation, your attention is momentarily diverted when you hear 1 point
your name spoken in a different conversation across the room. This is an example of the

filter effect

dichotic listening phenomenon

cocktail party effect

attenuation effect

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
cocktail party effect

7) The word “cat” is ______ by the phrase “The dog chased the….” That is, the word cat is 1 point
especially ready to be recognized or attended to

filtered

attenuated

primed

suggested

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
primed

8) Which of the following is a characteristic of an automatic process? 1 point

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It only occurs intentionally

It gives rise to conscious awareness

It does not interfere with other activities

It requires mental filtering

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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It does not interfere with other activities

9) Studies of inattentional blindness have shown that only 44% of people paying attention to a 1 point
counting task will notice a person in a gorilla suit walking through the room

True

False

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
True

10)Greater effort or concentration results in better performance on 1 point

all tasks

tasks that require resource-limited processing

tasks that are data-limited

tasks that require vigilance

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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tasks that require resource-limited processing

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methods of retrieval
cognitive
psychology encoding

storage
Week 02: Object
Perception and forgetting
Recognition
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 03:
Attentional Accepted Answers:
Processes and retrieval
Cognition
2) Information is held in _____ for 20 to 30 seconds 1 point
Week 04:
Memory sensory memory
Introduction
short-term memory
Lesson 01 :
long-term memory
Memory
Introduction secondary memory
Lesson 02 : No, the answer is incorrect.
Short Term
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Memory
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Working
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Memory of 4) The recency effect is through to result from participants’ use of 1 point
General
Knowledge sensory memory

short-term memory
Week 07:
Concept long-term memory
Formation
either sensory or short-term memory
Week 08: Visual
No, the answer is incorrect.
and Spatial
Memory Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Week 09: Human either sensory or short-term memory
Language Skills
5) Encoding occurs when 1 point
Week 10:
Thought information is presented to our senses
Process and
Problem Solving information is translated into a form that other cognitive processes can use

information is stored over a period of time

Week 11:
Reasoning information is called back from storage

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 12:
Score: 0
Decision Making
Accepted Answers:
Pre Requisite information is translated into a form that other cognitive processes can use
Assignment
6) Words from the beginning of a list are more likely to be recalled than words from the middle 1 point
of the list. This phenomenon is known as the _____ effect

recency

primacy

forgetting

interference

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
primacy

7) The icon is said to be characterized by all of the following EXCEPT 1 point

It holds information in a relatively unprocessed form

It lasts about 20 seconds

It can be “erased” by stimuli that are presented immediately afterward

It can hold more information than can be reported

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
It lasts about 20 seconds

8) Which of the following seems to be true of both echoes and icons? 1 point

They are modality specific, holding only one type of sensory information

They have relatively small capacities for information

They both hold information for the same length of time

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They both rely heavily on the meaning of the stimulus

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
They are modality specific, holding only one type of sensory information

9) Which of the following is NOT a component of Baddeley’s working memory model? 1 point

the phonological loop

the icon

the central executive

the visuospatial sketchpad

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
the icon

10)The term “anterograde amnesia” refers to 1 point

the loss of the ability to form new memories

the loss of the ability to recall old events

the loss of short-term memory

the loss of sensory memory

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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the loss of the ability to form new memories

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methods of Saturday night you went to another party and drank a few more beers, and suddenly you were able to
cognitive remember the name again. Which principle best explains your retrieval processes?
psychology

the spacing effect

Week 02: Object
Perception and chunking
Recognition
state-dependent learning

Week 03: the context effect

Attentional
Processes and No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition Score: 0
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Week 04:
state-dependent learning
Memory
Introduction 2) Studies of flashbulb memory indicate that: 1 point

Week 05: Long stronger emotional responses to an event are associated with less detailed memories
Term Memory
more retellings of the event are associated with more accurate memories
Lesson 01 :
Long Term flashbulb memories are no more accurate than memories for more mundane life events
Memory
people are less confident in the accuracy of flashbulb memories than they are about more
Encoding
ordinary memories
Lesson 02 :
Retrieval from No, the answer is incorrect.
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Memory of
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General
Knowledge No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 07:
Concept Accepted Answers:
Formation pegword method

4) Bartlett’s research on the retelling of stories shows that over time, the same person’s recall: 1 point
Week 08: Visual
and Spatial
Memory is remarkably consistent

actually improves
Week 09: Human
Language Skills becomes more distorted

loses a few details but retains most accurately

Week 10:
Thought No, the answer is incorrect.
Process and Score: 0
Problem Solving
Accepted Answers:
Week 11: becomes more distorted
Reasoning
5) Psychologists believe that the capacity of long-term memory is: 1 point

Week 12:
Decision Making unlimited

7 + 2 items
Pre Requisite
Assignment 18 items

5000 items

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
unlimited

6) The code in long-term memory is based on: 1 point

sound

visual imagery

meaning

both sound and visual imagery

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
meaning

7) Techniques designed to improve memory, often involving the use of visual imagery, are 1 point
called:

mnemonics

eidetics

iconics

IQ enhancers

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
mnemonics

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explicit

implicit

cognitive

incidental

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
explicit

9) Which of the following are most likely to be confused in long-term memory? 1 point

the letters P and R

the letters C and B

the words “see” and “bee”

the words “big” and “large”

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
the words “big” and “large”

10)Proactive interference refers to the fact that: 1 point

new material can disrupt the recall of previously learned material

previously learned material can disrupt the learning of new material

the passage of time leads to memory decay

active interference can strengthen a memory trace

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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previously learned material can disrupt the learning of new material

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and research 1) Conrad has found evidence that the statement “A shark can move” can be verified in the 1 point
methods of same amount of time as “An animal can move.” These results suggest that reaction time is best
cognitive predicted by:
psychology

cognitive economy
Week 02: Object
Perception and frequency of association
Recognition
encoding specificity

Week 03: episodic memory

Attentional
Processes and No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Week 04:
frequency of association
Memory
Introduction 2) Which of the following would be a part of your declarative memory system? 1 point

Week 05: Long knowing how to ride a bicycle

Term Memory
knowing how to drive a car
Week 06:
knowing how to react to a red light
Memory of
General being able to name a hybrid car
Knowledge
No, the answer is incorrect.
Lesson 01 : Score: 0
Semantic
Memory Basics Accepted Answers:
being able to name a hybrid car
Lesson 02 :
Models of 3) The word superiority effect is related to the idea of 1 point
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: Memory of
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General
Knowledge spreading activation

4) ACT models distinguish among three types of memory systems 1 point

Week 07:
Concept
Formation working memory, episodic memory, and declarative memory

semantic memory, episodic memory, and procedural memory

Week 08: Visual
and Spatial procedural memory, declarative memory, and semantic memory
Memory
working memory, declarative memory, and procedural memory

Week 09: Human No, the answer is incorrect.

Language Skills Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Week 10:
Thought working memory, declarative memory, and procedural memory
Process and
5) According to ACT models, _______ memory represents information in if–then production 1 point
Problem Solving
rules
Week 11:
Reasoning working

procedural
Week 12:
Decision Making episodic

declarative
Pre Requisite
Assignment No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
procedural

6) Which of the following would be a part of your procedural memory system? 1 point

knowing that the Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, New York

knowing the lifetime batting average of Ted Williams

knowing how to swing a baseball bat

being able to remember the ball and strike count of the current pitch

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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knowing how to swing a baseball bat

7) According to the notion of cognitive economy, a characteristic like “has wings” would be 1 point
stored along with which of the following semantic memory nodes?

bird

ostrich

robin

hummingbird

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
bird

8) According to Anderson, procedural memory represents information as 1 point

words

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pictures

production rules

words and pictures

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
production rules

9) Properties and facts are stored at the highest level possible, according to the principle of 1 point

encoding specificity

connectionism

cognitive economy

typicality

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
cognitive economy

10)Collins and Loftus’s spreading activation theory differs from the hierarchical network theory 1 point
in that

it dispenses with the idea of cognitive economy

it relies on the assumption of hierarchical structure

it cannot account for the typicality effect

it makes stronger predictions than hierarchical models

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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and research some similarity in perceptual, biological, or functional properties
methods of
cognitive category
psychology
concept
Week 02: Object script
Perception and
Recognition schema

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 03:
Attentional Score: 0
Processes and Accepted Answers:
Cognition
category

Week 04: 2) A ________ is a mental representation of some object, event, or pattern 1 point
Memory
Introduction category

Week 05: Long concept

Term Memory script

Week 06: memory

Memory of
No, the answer is incorrect.
General
Knowledge Score: 0
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Week 07: concept
Concept
Formation 3) Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the classical view of concepts? 1 point

Lesson 01 :
It proposes that concepts are mentally represented by lists of features
Introducing
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It accurately predicts the typicality effect
Lesson 02 :
Introducing “Necessary” and “sufficient” features play an important role in the theory
Concepts and Funded by
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Quiz :
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4) “Characteristic features” and “family resemblance” are important aspects of the _________ 1 point
: Concept view of concepts
Formation
classical
Week 08: Visual
and Spatial prototype
Memory
exemplar

Week 09: Human schema

Language Skills
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 10:
Thought Accepted Answers:
Process and prototype
Problem Solving
5) According to the ______ view of concepts, people categorize new instances by comparing 1 point
Week 11: them to representations of previously stored instances
Reasoning
classical
Week 12:
Decision Making prototype

exemplar
Pre Requisite
Assignment schema

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
exemplar

6) Implicit learning is also known as 1 point

analytic concept formation

nonanalytic concept formation

knowledge-based concept formation

nominal-kind learning

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
nonanalytic concept formation

7) A schema for a routine event, such as going to the dentist, is called a 1 point

concept

category

exemplar

script

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
script

8) The ______ view of concepts argues that a person uses his/her theories about the way the 1 point
world works to justify the classification of instances in the same category

classical

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prototype

exemplar

knowledge-based

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
knowledge-based

9) If “soda” is a basic-level category, then ______ would be a subordinate level 1 point

soft drink

beverage

drink

Coca-Cola

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Coca-Cola

10)Categories are mental representations of concepts 1 point

True

False

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
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and research known as
methods of
cognitive symbolic distance
psychology
imaginal scanning
Week 02: Object mnemonic movement
Perception and
Recognition heuristic distortion

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 03:
Attentional Score: 0
Processes and Accepted Answers:
Cognition
imaginal scanning

Week 04: 2) Your mental map of your campus is probably 1 point

Memory
Introduction larger than reality

Week 05: Long smaller than reality

Term Memory more regular, with more straight lines and right angles, than reality

Week 06: less regular, with fewer straight lines and right angles, than reality
Memory of
No, the answer is incorrect.
General
Knowledge Score: 0
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Concept
Formation 3) The relational-organizational hypothesis is supported by 1 point

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Memory the effectiveness of the pegword method
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Memory Accepted Answers:
the fact that noninteractive images do not facilitate recall whereas interactive images do facilitate recall
Text Material 08
: Visual and 4) Finke theorized that there are _____ principles of mental imagery 1 point
Spatial Memory

Quiz : two
Assessment 08
three
: Visual and
Spatial Memory four

Week 09: Human five

Language Skills
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 10:
Thought Accepted Answers:
Process and five
Problem Solving
5) Participants doing mental imagery tasks tend to show brain activity in the 1 point
Week 11:
Reasoning temporal lobe

parietal lobe
Week 12:
Decision Making frontal lobe

occipital lobe
Pre Requisite
Assignment No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
occipital lobe

6) Both blind and sighted participants take longer to “scan” the visual image of a map when 1 point
the actual distance between two landmarks is greater. This illustrates the idea of

spatial equivalence

perceptual equivalence

transformational equivalence

structural equivalence

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
spatial equivalence

7) Visual images are formed in pieces that are assembled into a final product. This is a 1 point
statement of the principle of

spatial equivalence

transformational equivalence

perceptual equivalence

structural equivalence

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
structural equivalence

8) When the experimental task itself “cues” the subject about how to behave, the task is said 1 point
to have

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internal validity

demand characteristics

transformational equivalence

implicit encoding

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
demand characteristics

9) How do people represent and navigate in and through space? This is a question of 1 point

imaginal cognition

representational cognition

spatial cognition

visual cognition

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
spatial cognition

10)When an experimenter gives subtle cues to participants about how to behave, we say that 1 point
a(n) ______ has occurred

experimenter-expectancy effect

double-blind design

implicit error

external validity

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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experimenter-expectancy effect

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and research
methods of they do not use words
cognitive
psychology they do not have a formal grammar

they cannot express infinite combinations of ideas

Week 02: Object
Perception and they do not have a permanent (written) form
Recognition
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 03:
Attentional Accepted Answers:
Processes and they cannot express infinite combinations of ideas
Cognition
2) Which of the following is an example of a morpheme? 1 point
Week 04:
Memory This book needs to be rewritten
Introduction
book
Week 05: Long re-
Term Memory
both “book” and “re-”
Week 06: No, the answer is incorrect.
Memory of
Score: 0
General
Knowledge Accepted Answers:
both “book” and “re-”
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Formation
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Week 08: Visual
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Comprehension
and
Understanding phonetic
of Language
lexical
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: Human
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Quiz : No, the answer is incorrect.

Assessment 09 Score: 0
: Human
Language Skills Accepted Answers:
phonetic
Week 10:
Thought 5) The study of the ways in which sounds can be combined in any given language is called 1 point
Process and
Problem Solving phonology

morphology
Week 11:
Reasoning syntax

Week 12: grammar

Decision Making
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Pre Requisite
Assignment Accepted Answers:
phonology

6) The branch of linguistics devoted to the study of meaning 1 point

phonetics

semantics

morphology

pragmatics

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
semantics

7) “I’m going to meet him at the bank.” At the First National Bank, or at the river bank? This 1 point
type of ambiguity is referred to as

phonetic

grammatical

lexical

syntactic

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
lexical

8) Infinite combinations of ideas can be expressed in language. In other words, language is 1 point

regular

interpersonal

productive

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referential

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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productive

9) “George is not tall enough to ride the roller coaster.” “George is too short to ride the roller 1 point
coaster.” These sentences are related through

ambiguity

entailment

synonymy

self-contradiction

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
synonymy

10)A statement like “This apple is not a fruit” is an example of 1 point

a self-contradiction

ambiguity

anomaly

synonymy

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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methods of
cognitive solving Rubik’s Cube puzzle
psychology
constructing a proof in geometry
Week 02: Object solving the Tower of Hanoi problem
Perception and
Recognition putting together your schedule of classes for next semester

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 03:
Attentional Score: 0
Processes and Accepted Answers:
Cognition
putting together your schedule of classes for next semester

Week 04: 2) The problem-solving technique of ______ involves comparing the goal with the starting 1 point
Memory point, thinking of possible ways to overcome the distance between them, and choosing the best one
Introduction
generate-and-test
Week 05: Long
Term Memory means-end analysis

reasoning by analogy
Week 06:
Memory of mental set
General
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Introduction to
Problem 4) The General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program that solves problems in crypt 1 point
Solving arithmetic and logic using

Lesson 02 :
Factors means-end analysis
Influencing generate-and-test
Problem
Solving reasoning by analogy

Lesson 03 : introspection
Insight and
Creativity No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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Problem
Solving 5) ________ thinking begins with a clear starting point and has a specific goal 1 point

Quiz :
Focused
Assessment 10
: Thought Unfocused
Process and
Problem Intelligent
Solving
Puzzled
Week 11: No, the answer is incorrect.
Reasoning
Score: 0

Week 12: Accepted Answers:

Decision Making Focused

6) The detailed, concurrent, and nonjudgmental observation of the contents of your 1 point
Pre Requisite
Assignment consciousness is called

thinking

daydreaming

problem solving

introspection

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
introspection

7) When one recalls the solution to an old problem and uses it to solve a new, similarly 1 point
structured problem, one has reasoned by

introspection

analysis

analogy

working memory

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
analogy

8) The string problem often generates ______ when participants do not think to use the 1 point
screwdriver as a pendulum

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mental set

incomplete representations

reasoning by analogy

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
functional fixedness

9) A tendency to adopt a certain framework, strategy, or procedure, which can become an 1 point
obstacle to successful problem solving, is called

mental set

functional fixedness

well-defined thinking

ill-defined thinking

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
mental set

10)_____ is defined as “going beyond the information given.” 1 point

Problem-solving

Reasoning

Decision making

Thinking

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Thinking

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methods of
cognitive inductive strength
psychology
deductive strength
Week 02: Object inductive validity
Perception and
Recognition deductive validity

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 03:
Attentional Score: 0
Processes and Accepted Answers:
Cognition
deductive validity

Week 04: 2) If a person has five letters in his/her name, then s/he is a Glirple. Fred now reasons that 1 point
Memory anyone who is a Glirple must have five letters in his/her name. Fred has
Introduction
made a correct inference according to modus ponens
Week 05: Long
Term Memory made a correct inference according to modus tollens

committed the fallacy of denying the antecedent

Week 06:
Memory of committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent
General
Knowledge No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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Formation
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Reasoning
4) In completing Wason’s four-card task, participants usually: 1 point
Lesson 01 :
Reasoning - 01 turn over the two cards that are necessary and sufficient to test the rule

Lesson 02 : turn over all four cards, when only two would have been sufficient
Reasoning - 02
turn over all four cards, when only one would have been sufficient
Text Material 11
show understanding of modus ponens but neglect modus tollens
: Reasoning

Quiz : No, the answer is incorrect.

Assessment 11 Score: 0
: Reasoning Accepted Answers:
show understanding of modus ponens but neglect modus tollens
Week 12:
Decision Making 5) Which type of reasoning results in conclusions that contain new information? 1 point

Pre Requisite inductive reasoning

Assignment
deductive reasoning

invalid reasoning

both inductive and deductive reasoning

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
inductive reasoning

6) Peter Wason gave participants the sequence “2, 4, 6” and asked them to determine the rule 1 point
used to generate the sequence. His findings suggest that:

people have difficulty generating possible rules to test

people generate a rule, then look for information that could support it

people generate a rule, then look for information that could disconfirm it

people generate rules, but do not know how to support their rules

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
people generate a rule, then look for information that could support it

7) When it is improbable (but not impossible) for an argument’s premises to be true and its 1 point
conclusions false, the argument has:

deductive validity

deductive strength

inductive validity

inductive strength

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
inductive strength

8) The tendency to seek out information that supports our current beliefs is called: 1 point

a believability effect

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a content effect

a confirmation bias

syllogistic reasoning

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
a confirmation bias

9) The human ability to infer, estimate and predict the character of unknown events is known 1 point
as

judgment

decision making

reasoning

bias

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
judgment

10)When people interpret premises 1 point

they often make unwarranted assumptions

they often fail to consider all possible interpretations of a premise

they perform very well if given enough practice

they often make unwarranted assumptions and fail to consider all possible interpretations of
a premise

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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they often make unwarranted assumptions and fail to consider all possible interpretations of a premise

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and research mind, we are using the heuristic of:
methods of
cognitive representativeness
psychology
availability
Week 02: Object framing
Perception and
Recognition hindsight

No, the answer is incorrect.

Week 03:
Attentional Score: 0
Processes and Accepted Answers:
Cognition
availability

Week 04: 2) Normative models of decision making describe: 1 point

Memory
Introduction how we ought to make decisions in realistic circumstances

Week 05: Long ideal performance under ideal circumstances

Term Memory what people actually do when they make decisions

Week 06: cognitive illusions

Memory of
No, the answer is incorrect.
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Formation 3) The mental activities that take place in choosing among alternatives are collectively called: 1 point

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Reasoning
probability of Anita’s being a model as quite high because she resembles our stereotype of a model,
we are using the heuristic of:
Week 12:
Decision Making
representativeness
Lesson 01 :
availability
Classical
Theory of framing
Decision
Making the law of small numbers

Lesson 02 : No, the answer is incorrect.

Prospect Score: 0
Theory of
Decision Accepted Answers:
Making representativeness

Lesson 03 : 5) The phase of decision making that involves finding a way to organize information is called: 1 point
Course
Summary goal setting
Text Material 12 planning
: Decision
Making structuring the decision

Quiz : evaluating
Assessment 12
: Decision No, the answer is incorrect.
Making Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Pre Requisite
Assignment structuring the decision

6) You have just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out the answer to a single problem on your 1 point
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:

the sunk cost effect

a framing effect

the anchor effect

availability bias

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
the sunk cost effect

7) Expected utility theory is usually regarded as a ________ model of decision making 1 point

descriptive

prescriptive

normative

both descriptive and prescriptive

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
normative

8) _____ is a normative model for integrating different dimensions and goals of a complex 1 point

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decision

Expected value

Availability

MAUT

Framing

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
MAUT

9) Research on framing suggests that we treat losses 1 point

less seriously than gains of an equivalent amount

more seriously than gains of an equivalent amount

just as seriously as gains of an equivalent amount

as if they were not possible outcomes at all

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
more seriously than gains of an equivalent amount

10)Which of the following is NOT one of the five phases of decision making, according to 1 point
Galotti?

goal setting

information gathering

planning

random choice

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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random choice

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Assessment 00
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Lesson 1: How All questions are compulsory.

to access the Marks (1 x 10 = 10)
home page? These marks won't be counted towards the final score.
Lesson 2: How
to access the
course page? 1) Which of the following is NOT an example of a cognitive process? 1 point

Lesson 3: How attention

to access the
MCQ, MSQ recognition
and
Programming reflex
assignments?
perception
Quiz :
No, the answer is incorrect.
Assessment 00
Score: 0
History and Accepted Answers:
research
reflex
methods of
cognitive 2) The interdisciplinary field of cognitive science brings together all of the following fields EXCEPT 1 point
psychology

linguistics
Object
Perception and psychoanalysis
Recognition
computer science
Attentional philosophy
Processes and
Cognition No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Memory
Accepted Answers:
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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Visual and
Accepted Answers:
Spatial Memory
paradigm
Human Language 4) Processes that occur simultaneously rather than one at a time are known as __________ 1 point
Skills
processes

Thought Process
central
and Problem
Solving serial

Reasoning sequential

parallel
Decision Making
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
parallel

5) Theories about cognition date back to the days of Aristotle and Plato 1 point

False

True

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
False

7) The term “limited capacity processors” suggests that 1 point

computers have limited memory storage

processing in the brain occurs in parallel

human beings can only do so many things at once

neurons can only fire at a certain rate

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
human beings can only do so many things at once

8) The _______________ was a rejection of the prevailing assumption that mental events were 1 point
beyond the realm of scientific study

universal grammar

human factors movement

cognitive revolution

behaviorist rebellion

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Score: 0
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cognitive revolution

9) Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of research methods and measurement 1 point

behaviourism

the Gestalt school

functionalism

structuralism

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
behaviourism

10)Historians date the founding of scientific psychology to the 1879 laboratory of 1 point

John Locke

Wilhelm Wundt

Edward Titchener

Williams James

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Assessment 01
The due date for submitting this assignment has passed. Due on 2018-02-05, 23:59 IST.
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History and All Questions are Compulsory.

research
methods of Marks (1 x 10 = 10)
cognitive
psychology 1) Who is known as Father of structuralism? 1 point

Lesson 01: A Edward B. Titchener

Brief History of
Cognitive Thorndike
Psychology-01
Wilhelm Wundt
Lesson 02: A
Brief History of William James
Cognitive
No, the answer is incorrect.
Psychology-02
Score: 0
Lesson 03:
Accepted Answers:
Studying
Cognition Wilhelm Wundt

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

Text Material Structuralism

01 : History and
Gestalt psychology
Research
Methods of Functionalism
Cognitive
Psychology No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Object
Perception and Accepted Answers:
Recognition Structuralism

3) Which “school” of psychology emphasized objectivity of research methods and 1 point

Attentional
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Memory of
Accepted Answers:
General
Knowledge behaviorism
4) Which school of Psychology assume that psychological phenomena could not be reduced to 1 point
Concept
simple elements but rather had to be analyzed and studied in their entirety
Formation

Behaviorism
Visual and
Spatial Memory Structuralism

Human Language Functionalism

Skills
Gestalt

Thought Process No, the answer is incorrect.

and Problem Score: 0
Solving
Accepted Answers:
Reasoning Gestalt

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
B.F. Skinner

7) All connectionist models share the assumption that: 1 point

processing occurs serially

a central processor directs the flow of information
processing occurs in parallel
knowledge is stored in various storehouses
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
processing occurs in parallel
8) Mental representation consists of 1 point

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Form

Content

Form and Content

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Form and Content

9) The earliest theories about cognitive abilities date back to: 1 point

Aristotle and Plato

Sigmund Freud
Williams James
Benjamin Franklin
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Aristotle and Plato
10)Boxes-and arrows models of cognition is based on which paradigm of psychology 1 point

Evolutionary approach

Information processing approach

Ecological Approach

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Information processing approach

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Assessment 02
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History and All Questions are Compulsory.

research Marks (1 x 10 = 10)
methods of
cognitive 1) The process of sensory input and their meaningful interpretation of information is known as 1 point
psychology
Sensation
Object
Perception
Perception and
Recognition Recognition

Lesson 01: Identification

Perception:Basic
Principles No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Lesson 02:
Models of Accepted Answers:
Perception-01 Perception

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

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Concept 4) Reversible figures illustrate the principle of: 1 point

Formation
size constancy
Visual and
Spatial Memory figure-ground organization
dimensionality
Human Language
Skills retinal imagery
No, the answer is incorrect.
Thought Process
Score: 0
and Problem
Solving Accepted Answers:
figure-ground organization
Reasoning
5) The perceiver starts with small bits of information from the environment that he combines in 1 point
Decision Making various ways to form a percept is processed through

Template matching

Theory-driven processing

Data-driven processing

Parallel processing

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Data-driven processing

6) How many primitive geons were explained by Biederman 1 point

36

72

44

63

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
36

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

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Pandemonium model

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
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

2-D sketch, 2 ½- D sketch, 3-D sketch

1-D sketch, 2-D sketch, 3-D sketch

primal sketch, 2-D sketch, 3-D sketch

primal sketch, 2 ½ -D sketch, 3-D sketch

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
primal sketch, 2 ½ -D sketch, 3-D sketch

10)Who gave the idea of optic flow during world war II 1 point

Marr

Cattell

Gibson

Rensink

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Gibson

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History and All Questions are Compulsory.

research Marks (1 x 10 = 10)
methods of
cognitive 1) Dichotic listening task is used to investigates 1 point
psychology
selective attention
Object
auditory function
Perception and
Recognition hearing problems

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

Assignment 03: No, the answer is incorrect.

Answer Sheet Score: 0

Text Material Accepted Answers:

03 : Attentional Filter theory
Processes and
Cognition 3) Greater effort or concentration results in better performance on: 1 point

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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

Human Language Selective attention

Skills
Cocktail party effect
Thought Process Dichotic listening
and Problem
Solving No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Reasoning
Accepted Answers:
Cocktail party effect
Decision Making
5) Which of the following factors does NOT influence the allocation of mental 1 point
resources in Kahneman’s capacity model?

the lateness of selection

the difficulty of the task
enduring dispositions
the state of arousal
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
the lateness of selection
6) Who describes the allocation policies for cognitive resources in attention 1 point
process

Becklen

Neisser

Johnston & Heinz

Kahneman

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Kahneman

7) Which of the following criteria is required for cognitive process to be automatic processing 1 point
according to Posner and Snyder

It must occur without intention

It must occur without involving conscious awareness

It must not interfere with other mental activity

All of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
All of the above

8) Which of the following task is better in explaining effect of practice in attention 1 point

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Priming

Visual search task

Dichotic listening task

Stroop task

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Stroop task

9) Inattentional blindness occurs due to 1 point

Psychiatric deficits

Lack of perception

Visual blindness

Lack of attention

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Lack of attention

10)When attention is overloaded, then participants make integration error, result in 1 point

Illusory conjunction

Inattention

Memory illusion

Divided attention

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Illusory conjunction

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Introduction

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research Marks (1 x 10 = 10)
methods of
cognitive 1) Iconic memory is associated with which of the sensory modality 1 point
psychology
Auditory
Object
Smell
Perception and
Recognition Visual

Touch
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0

Memory Accepted Answers:

Introduction Visual

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 02 : Psychological refractory period

Short Term
Memory
Response time

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:
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both decay and interference
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Knowledge No, the answer is incorrect.

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Concept
Accepted Answers:
Formation
both decay and interference
Visual and 4) Haptic memory is associated with which of the sensory modality 1 point
Spatial Memory

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

5) Who gave magic number 1 point

George A. Miller

Neisser

R. Conrad

Baddeley

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
George A. Miller

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Chunking

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

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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Central executive

10)Who proposed the working memory model 1 point

Hitch

Baddeley

Baddeley and Hitch

Baddeley and Andrade

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Baddeley and Hitch

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Memory

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research Marks ( 1 x 10 = 10)
methods of
cognitive 1) Which of the following are most likely to be confused in long-term memory? 1 point
psychology
the words “see” and “bee”
Object
the words “big” and “large”
Perception and
Recognition the letters P and R

Attentional the letters C and B

Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0

Memory Accepted Answers:

Introduction the words “big” and “large”

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
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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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Semantic memory, episodic memory
Memory of
General Autobiographical memory, Flashbulb memory
Knowledge
Flashbulb memory, episodic Funded
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Score: 0
Formation
Accepted Answers:
Visual and Semantic memory, episodic memory
Spatial Memory
4) Which memory system is temporal in nature 1 point
Human Language
Skills False memory

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

5) Memory of past with emotionally arousing events is known as 1 point

Short-term memory

Flashbulb memory

Eyewitness memory

Long-term memory

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Flashbulb 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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
False memory

7) Which of the following task is responsible for induction of false memory in laboratory conditions 1 point

Pair associative learning task

Pursuit rotor task

Auditory detection task

Deese-Roediger-McDermott

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
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

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Flashbulb memory

Implicit memory

Eyewitness memory

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Autobiographical memory

9) The "tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon is a problem of 1 point

Engram

Retrieval

Repression

Storage

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Retrieval

10)Who proposed the idea that LTM is reconstructive: 1 point

Frederic Bartlett

Ulric Neisser

Elizabeth Loftus

Marigold Linton

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Frederic Bartlett

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research Marks ( 1 x 10 = 10)
methods of
cognitive 1) The memory of facts, knowledge and meaning is 1 point
psychology
Recognition memory
Object
Semantic memory
Perception and
Recognition Implicit memory

Episodic memory
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0

Memory Accepted Answers:

Introduction Semantic memory

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?

Memory of Boo has a popular Facebook page

General
Knowledge Boo is an animal
Boo is a dog
Lesson 01 :
Semantic Boo is a living thing
Memory Basics
No, the answer is incorrect.
Lesson 02 :
Score: 0
Models of
Semantic Accepted Answers:
Memory Boo is a living thing
Text Material 3) The word superiority effect is related to the idea of: 1 point
06 : Memory of
General
Knowledge typicality
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spreading activation
Visual and
Spatial Memory 4) Who propose the Hierarchical Semantic Model 1 point

Human Language Collins & Quillinan

Skills
Schacter

Thought Process Tulving

and Problem
Solving Miller

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Decision Making
Collins & Quillinan

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Spreading activation

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Cognitive economy

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Typicality effect

8) Who proposed the ACT model of memory 1 point

John Watson

John Anderson

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Meyer and Schvaneveldt

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9) The organization of packet of information available in brain which have fixed part and variables is1 point
consider as

Prototype

Template

Schema

Feature

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Schema

10)Who tells you, what to do and how to behave in restaurant when you go for food 1 point

Waiter

Experience

Rules

Script

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Script

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methods of
cognitive 1) The class of similar things that shares perceptual, biological, or functional similarities is known 1 point
psychology as

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
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Introducing No, the answer is incorrect.
Concepts and Score: 0
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Concepts and 3) Which of the following approach need actual individual instance to make a category 1 point
Categories-02
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Spatial Memory Exemplar view

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

Decision Making No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Knowledge-based

5) Which of the following views are also uses by Schemata view for concept and categorization 1 point
formation

Prototype view

Exemplar view

Prototype and Exemplar views

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Prototype and Exemplar views

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Concept

7) Possible strategies for concept formation involve 1 point

Simultaneous Scanning

Successive Scanning

Conservative Focusing

All above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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All above

8) You might have a "script" for 1 point

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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
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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.
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nonanalytic concept formation
10)Which of the following poses a problem for the prototype view of concepts? 1 point

an inability to explain why the typicality of a particular instance can depend

upon context
an inability to explain the typicality effect
an inability to explain why people have a hard time providing strict definitions of
their concepts
an inability to explain why some classifications are easy to make and others are
unclear
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Spatial Memory

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methods of
cognitive 1) The memory technique to make better encoding and recalling/recognizing information is known 1 point
psychology as

Object Encoding specificity

Perception and
Recognition Rehearsal

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Visual and
Score: 0
Spatial Memory
Accepted Answers:
Lesson 01: Bower
Basics of
Visual Memory 3) According to the dual-coding hypothesis of LTM, which of the following coding systems are 1 point
available to represent information
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Skills memory

Thought Process Imagery

and Problem
Solving Verbal

Acoustic
Reasoning
All of above
Decision Making
No, the answer is incorrect.
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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Perceptual equivalence

6) How many basic principles Finke gave to describes the nature and properties of visual images 1 point

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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5

7) Which of the following property is not related to visual imagery 1 point

Implicit encoding

Priming

Perceptual equivalence

Structural equivalence

Spatial equivalence

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Priming

8) When experimenters unconsciously give subtle cues to participants, which influence participant 1 point

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to expect something is referred as

Expectancy

Participant belief

Tacit knowledge

Experimenter expectancy effect

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Experimenter expectancy effect

9) What are the controversies of visual imagery concept 1 point

Tacit knowledge and demand characteristics

Picture metaphor

Propositional theory

All mentioned

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

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methods of
cognitive 1) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of language 1 point
psychology
Regular
Object
Consistent
Perception and
Recognition Arbitrary

Discrete
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0

Memory Accepted Answers:

Introduction Consistent

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Visual and
Score: 0
Spatial Memory
Accepted Answers:
Human Language Morphology
Skills
3) Smallest meaningful units of language 1 point
Lesson 01 :
Issues in Word
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Morpheme
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Morpheme
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Assessment 09
Morphology
Assignment 09:
Answer Sheet Phonology

Thought Process Voicing

and Problem Phonetics
Solving
No, the answer is incorrect.
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Decision Making
Phonetics

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Phonology

6) The smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a given language is known as 1 point

Lexemes

Morpheme

Phoneme

Syntax

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Phoneme

7) The phoneme restoration effect was first documented by 1 point

Milner

Garret

Warren

Bierwisch

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Warren

8) The “given-new” strategy in text processing was given by 1 point

Bierwisch

Just and carpenter

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Kintsch and Keenan

Haviland and Clark

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Haviland and Clark

9) A speech act such as “I promise to study my psychology textbook tonight” is 1 point

called a(n):

assertive
expressive
commissive
directive
No, the answer is incorrect.
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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

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methods of
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psychology
Ill-defined problem
Object
Routine problem
Perception and
Recognition Well defined problem

Narrow problem
Attentional
Processes and
No, the answer is incorrect.
Cognition
Score: 0

Memory Accepted Answers:

Introduction Narrow problem

2) How many types of problems, Marr described 1 point

Long Term
Memory
2
Memory of 3
General
Knowledge 4

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

Thought Process Gestalt approach

and Problem Information processing approach
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Wallas
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Creativity
Wolfgang kohler
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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Gestalt psychology

6) Which of the following is an example of transformational problem 1 point

Anagrams

Tower of hanoi

Analogy problems

Escaping form of maze

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Tower of hanoi

7) “Creative acts are products of interpersonal, disciplinary and socio-cultural environments” is 1 point
defined by

Products

Person

Process

Press

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Press

8) ______ is a very important technique for solving the Towers of Hanoi problem 1 point

reasoning and analogy

generate-and-test

working backward

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means-end-analysis

No, the answer is incorrect.

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working backward

9) The strategy of working backward is most effective when: 1 point

there are many possible paths to a solution

the backward path is unique
the optimal path leads you temporarily away from your goal
there are clear subgoals before the final goal
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
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the backward path is unique
10)Which of the following is an example of an ill-defined problem? 1 point

constructing a proof in geometry

putting together your schedule of classes for next semester
solving an algebra problem
solving the Tower of Hanoi problem
No, the answer is incorrect.
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putting together your schedule of classes for next semester
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methods of
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psychology Mary likes Winnie-the-Pooh.
Therefore, Mary is a sensitive person
Object Which of the reasoning can explain it?
Perception and
Recognition Deductive reasoning

Attentional Inductive reasoning

Processes and
Syllogistic reasoning
Cognition
Conditional reasoning
Memory
Introduction No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Long Term Accepted Answers:
Memory Conditional reasoning

Memory of 2) When general principles or assertions lead to a valid specific conclusion, it will be 1 point
General
Knowledge Inductive reasoning

Concept Deductive reasoning

Formation
Syllogistic reasoning

Visual and Conditional reasoning

Spatial Memory
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Human Language
Skills Accepted Answers:
Deductive reasoning
Thought Process
and Problem 3) Which of the reasoning make a general conclusion from specific pieces of data or information 1 point
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Assignment 11: Inductive reasoning

Answer Sheet
Syllogistic reasoning

Decision Making Deductive reasoning

Conditional reasoning

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Inductive reasoning

5) Who define that, judgment is the human ability to infer, estimate & predict the character of 1 point
unknown events

Hastie & Dawes

Kahneman

Baron

Kahneman & Tversky

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Hastie & Dawes

6) Newell and Simon (1972) proposed ____________ 1 point

Tower of Hanoi

ACT

Problem Space

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Problem Space

7) __________ is the inability to see novel uses of everyday familiar objects 1 point

Functional fixedness

Proactive inhibition

Interference

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Functional fixedness

8) Which of the following are the correct basic components of a problem 1 point

Rules, problems, initial state

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Initial state, goal state, rules, obstacles

Initial state, goal state, rewards, achievements

Goal state, initial state, rewards, obstacles

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Initial state, goal state, rules, obstacles

9) Syllogisms consists of two ___________ and a ______________ 1 point

Variables, hypothesis

Premises, conclusion

Heuristics, function

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Premises, conclusion

10)Ill-defined problems are 1 point

Clear and solvable

Fuzzy and abstract

Full of constraints and obstacles

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

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methods of
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psychology on

Object Their interest

Perception and
Recognition Respective probability of outcomes

Expected utility of outcomes

Attentional
Processes and Expected utility and respective probabilities of outcomes
Cognition
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Memory
Introduction Accepted Answers:
Expected utility and respective probabilities of outcomes
Long Term
Memory 2) Who proposed the Prospect theory 1 point

Memory of Lichtenstein & Slovic

General
Kahneman & Tversky
Knowledge
Arkes and Blumer
Concept
Formation Clemen

No, the answer is incorrect.

Visual and
Score: 0
Spatial Memory
Accepted Answers:
Human Language Kahneman & Tversky
Skills
3) Decisions are not valued based on the absolute value of the end result, as proposed by the 1 point
Thought Process expected utility; instead, we value decisions based on the amount of gain or loss from what we have right

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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 :
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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

Dual process view

Affective decision-making mode

Gain Frame

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Affective decision-making mode

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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$1000

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

the anchor effect

the availability effect

the framing effect

the sunk cost effect

No, the answer is incorrect.

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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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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gamblers fallacy

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

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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framing effect

10)Normative models of decision making describe: 1 point

how we ought to make decisions in realistic circumstances

what people actually do when they make decisions
ideal performance under ideal circumstances
cognitive illusions
No, the answer is incorrect.
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