Cognitive Psychology Questions
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Which of the following are the fundamental components of memory?
Psychologists describe as the retention of information or experience over time.
Which of the following flavors is not a type of taste molecule, but rather a combination of sensory experiences?
Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about the competing theories about how a sound's pitch is transmitted to the brain.There are two theories that attempt to explain how sound is transmitted to the brain through the vibration of cilia in the ear. The first, ____ theory, suggests that the speed with which the cilia fire neural impulses determines the pitch of sound that is conveyed. The second, ____ theory, suggests that where the cilia are located along the basilar membrane determines the pitch of sound they transmit. This second theory proposes that the primary auditory cortex is organized according to location as well, a concept referred to as _____.
Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about how we distinguish differences in stimuli.
Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about two schools of psychological thought on how the brain makes meaning out of sensory stimuli.Historically, two schools of thought have developed to understand _____ of the outside world. The first is _____, which seeks to understand individual components of our experience to figure out how the brain makes sense of the world. The second is ______, which claims the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Which creature would be most likely to hear the high-pitched sound of a dog whistle?
Bala is adding salt to a glass of already salty water to see how much he has to add before his friend notices that the water is saltier than before. What is the term for the amount of salt needed for Bala's friend to notice the difference?
Your roommate accidentally spills a steaming hot cup of tea on your hand. Which of the following types of skin receptors would be activated?
What memory as a large capacity by middle childhood?
confirmation bias, fixation, mental set, functional fixedness
develop expertise, allow time for incubation, set aside time for mind to roam freely, experience other cultures and ways of thinking
4 months: recognize differences in sound and when speech doesn't match sight, 7 months: can segment spoken words into individual words
resembles household language, lose ability to produce sounds outside native language
In three secs, short term memory can remember
In twelve secs, short term memory can recall
optic nerve to thalamus to visual cortex in optic lobe, LVF activates R side of retinas and travels to R optic lobe
distracted driving can mean a delay in switching attentional gears back to what's happening on the roadinattentional blindness
detection depends partly on person's experience, motivation, expectations, and alertnesspeople respond differently to different stimulithere is no single absolute threshold
eyes always moving, continuous movement, stimulation continuously changing, nerve cells don't stop firing