Cognition Exam 3 PDF Past Paper

Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 1. Q121. Anterograde amnesia may be caused by brain injury 2. Q122. What is true about Korsakoff's Syndrome? Alcoholism must be combined with...

Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 1. Q121. Anterograde amnesia may be caused by brain injury 2. Q122. What is true about Korsakoff's Syndrome? Alcoholism must be combined with poor eating to cre- ate a thiamine de- ficiency to cause it. 3. Q123. Suppose you ask someone with medial tempo- A few minutes ral amnesia to remember Phoenix. later, she may say Phoenix when asked to name cities 4. Q124. An individual who has suffered from severe to play new selec- Korsakoff's syndrome for the past 8 years can never- tions on the piano theless learn 5. Q125. You ask a person with Alzheimer disease to When asked to remember the word leopard. generate animals, he would not show an increased prob- ability of saying leopard after a short filled delay. 6. Q126. Huntington's disease is the result of deteriora- basal ganglia tion in part of the 7. Q127. What are symptoms of Huntington's disease An impairment of the ability to generate a re- sponse, which in- cludes motor ac- tion, speech, and recall but normal recognition 8. Q128. Alzheimer's disease is associated with 1 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p plaques and tan- gles forming in the cortex 9. Q139. When a 3-month old infant is trained to kick to the training mobile a test mobile and is briefly shown that test mobile 13 when it is shown days later as a reminder the infant kicks in response 72 hours after the to reminder 10. Q140. When immediate recognition of from one to both targets and six digits is tested the reaction time (RT) is a linear distractors function of set size for response to 11. Q141. When an observer is asked to respond whether the time for the re- a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, sponse is not a lin- if she makes her response based on the perceived ear function of the recency of the probe then size of the study set 12. Q142. To measure recognition, bot hits and miss- es must be count- ed 13. Q143. A change in criterion results in a change in both hits and false alarms 14. Q144. Five college students each sorted 100 pictures Ann, with 70% into those they recognized from grade school and hits and 30% false those they did not. Who had the best recognition of alarms former grade school class mates. 15. Q145. The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was The difference in given to participants learning a list of high and low fre- hits for low ver- quency words. Compared with normal performance, sus high frequen- later, the results of a recognition test were cy words were eliminated but the difference in false alarms remained the same 2 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 16. Q146. High school students and college students Recognition was were shown, one at a time, 100, or 200 pictures cut perfect or almost from magazines at the rate of one picture every 5 perfect in all condi- seconds. An hour later, each student was shown a tions sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item. 17. Q147. A list of study words is presented. then each Lad will be recog- word is shown again, one-at-a-time, and the subject nized more often has to report whether it was on the study list. In one than boy when test condition, each word is shown until a response is time is unlimited. made. In another condition the subject has only 1 second to decide about each word. Both boy and lad are on the study list. 18. Q148. When an eyewitness views a line-up The probability of a false alarm is increased regard- less of whether the perpetrator is in the line-up when the eyewitness is assured that the perpetrator is in the line-up. 19. Q151. In a distracter task in which word trigrams must the words are from be recalled, performance will be the best on trial five a different catego- if ry than on trials one through four 20. Q152. In a distracter task, the word trigrams on trials Farm 1-4 have been rat-squirrel-raccoon, wolf-bear-skunk, lion-tiger-zebra, cow-sheep-horse. What recall cue will increase recall of the fourth trigram? 21. Q153. Suppose that you are asked to report the names the first 20 sec- of all the different countries you can think of in one onds minute. You will report the most names during: 3 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 22. Q154. Suppose a person was asked to generate in- thinking of sec- stances of cities. An effective cue would be ondary cues like the names of sports granchises 23. Q155. I randomly divide the 50 states into two lists of The students 25 each. Let us call these list A and list B. One group asked to recall all of students is asked to recall 50 states recall more states on list B. 24. Q156. Suppose that you were with a large group of B. The level of re- people last Thursday night and once a day for the next call will increase five days you try to recall everyone you met that night. 25. D121. You received electric shock therapy (ECT) in anterograde am- January. Now no matter how hard you study, you are nesia doing poorly on all your exams. You are suffering from a mild case of 26. D122. What is true about Korsakoff's Syndrome? When poor eating is combined with excessive alcohol consumption to create a thiamine deficiency, the Wericke's phase of Wernicke-Kor- sakoff syndrome results 27. D123. A patient with medial temporal amnesia would be as likely as a normal indi- vidual to say chipmunk when asked to name animals if chip- munk was men- 4 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p tioned by some- one else, earlier 28. D124. What might a Korsakoff patient learn how to do? play the piano 29. D125. You ask a person with Alzheimer's disease to He would not remember the word diamond. show an increased probability of say- ing diamond when asked to name gem stones 30. D126. Huntington's disease is the result of damage in basal ganglia the 31. D127. An individual with Huntington's disease is most recall impaired on 32. D128. Some of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease temporal cortext results from damage to 33. Q159. Spiro (1982) found that autobiographical mem- may be updat- ory ed on the basis of new informa- tion presented im- mediately after an event. 34. Q166. The creation of a false memory is a symptom of normal memory 35. Q169. The effect of distributed study on training im- material present- plies that you will remember what from your studies ed in several many years from now? courses 36. Q170. Assuming that you remain healthy, but never never study it or anything related to it again, when will you forget all the content of your major? 37. Q171. Spiro found that one way that post-event infor- contradictory mation affects memory is post-event 5 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p information may cause confabulation 38. Q172. Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories one year suggests that a unique event is remembered accu- rately for 39. Q173. In organic retrograde a person does not remem- recent events be- ber ___ and during a fugue state a person does not fore a head injury; remember ___ their identity 40. Q174. Confabulation in conjunction with amnesia is a both the temporal consequence of damage to and frontal lobes 41. Q177. A traumatic event is encoded as ac- curately as a mun- dane event but re- tained longer 42. Q178. Who will have poor recall of the first three years everyone of life because of poor story-telling ability early in life? 43. D139. A target used as a reminder may take 72 hours three months to completely retrieve the action to it for an infant at the age of 44. D140. When immediate recognition of from one to six both targets and letters is repeatedly tested the reaction time (RT) is a distracters after linear function of set size for responses to extensive practice 45. D141. When an observer is asked to respond whether the time for the re- a probe was a member of a just presented set of items, sponse is not a lin- if she makes her response based on the perceived ear function of the recency of the probe then size of the study set for targets or distracters 46. D142. To measure recognition both the number of targets report- 6 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p ed as old and the number of dis- tracters reported as old must be counted 47. D143. When both hits and false alarms increase in criterion response to an incentive or both hits and false alarms decrease in response to an incentive, this is evidence for a shift in 48. D144. Alumni were given 24 photos consisting of Debra, who select- 12 former classmates and 12 strangers. They were ed 12 classmates asked to select the classmates Who best discriminat- and 0 strangers ed classmates from strangers? 49. D145. The amnesia producing drug Midazolam was The difference in given to participants learning a list of words. Com- hits for low ver- pared with normal performance, later, the results of a sus high frequen- recognition test were cy words was elim- inated 50. D146. Four different groups of students were shown, Recognition per- one at a time, 200, or 400 pictures cut from magazines formance was per- that were either indoor or outdoor scenes at the rate of fect or almost per- one picture every 5 seconds. An hour later, each stu- fect in all condi- dent was shown a sequence of 100 pairs of pictures, tions each including one study item and one distracter, and asked to select the study item. 51. D147. A list of study words is presented. Then each Lad will be recog- word is shown again, one-at-at-time, and the subject nized more often has to report whether it was on the study list. In one than boy when test condition, each word is shown until a response is time is unlimited. made. In another condition the subject has only 1 second to decide about each word. Both boy and lad are on the study list. 52. D148. When an eyewitness views a line-up containing The probability of the perpetrator a false alarm is 7 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p decreased if the eyewitness is told that the perpetra- tor may not be in the line-up. 53. Q181. Which question is someone with William's syn- How tall are you? drome most likely to get wrong 54. Q182. Which statement is verified the fastest? A cat is bigger than a rat 55. Q183. All men are humans and all humans are pri- valid and true mates, hence all men are primates is 56. Q184. What is true about low versus high imagery reading interferes statements? with the verifica- tion of high im- agery statements 57. Q185. Knowledge of college physics influenced intuitions about motion for only some students 58. Q186. The concrete version of a deductive reasoning easier than the ab- problem may be stract version 59. D151. On successive trials of a distracter task, it be- the number of comes more difficult to recall the most recent target targets associated because with a generic re- trieval cue increas- es. Hence, the probability of gen- erating the most recent target de- creases. 60. D152. In a distracter task, the word trigrams on trials Star Trek 1 - 4 have been James-Smith-White, Black-Duke-Rice, 8 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p James-Bryant-Taylor, Kirk-McCoy-Spock. What cue will increase recall of the fourth trigram? 61. D153. When someone free recalls instances of a large all of the above category a. clusters of instances are generated with decreasing frequency the longer that recall is attempted b. clusters that usually contain 1-4 instances are gen- erated c. all of the above d. clusters that do not contain instances from earlier clusters are generated e. clusters that contain related instances are generat- ed 62. D154. A person is trying to generate instances of the locales where ani- category animal. After 30 seconds of effort, you pro- mals might exist vide him with a cue. Performance would most likely improve over the no cue condition if you suggest 63. D155. Suppose that in order to help someone remem- Recall of the ber animal names you first told him a large number remaining animal of animal names. When compared with recall when no names would de- animal names were given crease. 64. D156. After a trip to the natural history museum on Friday Sunday, Tony tried to remember all of the more than 50 dinosaurs he saw there for the next five days. On which day did he remember the most dinosaurs? 65. Q187. When a pair of familiar countries are compared more; more; more; versus when an unfamiliar pair of countries are com- more pared, ___ similar features are retrieved for the fa- miliar countries making them appear ___ similar and ___ dissimilar features are retrieved for the familiar countries making them appear ___ dissimilar. 66. Q188. Most people prefer 9 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p A sure gain of $50 to a 50% chance of a gain of $100 67. Q189. People are afraid of sharks because of the representative- heuristic of ness 68. Q190. People are afraid of terrorist attacks because of The availability heuristic 69. Q191. The Cognitive Reflection Test demonstrates When an answer that appears obvious, most people ac- cept the answer without checking it. 70. Q192. An example of the illusion of explanatory depth Claiming you un- would be: derstand how an airplane works but being unable to ex- plain how it gets off the ground. 71. D159. Spiro found that memory was affected by It was presented post-event information when immediately after a narrative of a real event in an in- cidental recall ex- periment 72. D166. False memories are the result of normal retrieval processes 73. D169. (263.3) What will you remember most accurately academic facts of your college life 25 years from now? from your major 74. D170. Even if you never study or use it again, how long As long as you re- will you remember what you learned in your major main healthy, the subject? rest of your life 10 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 75. D171. One way that post-event information affects contradictory memory is post-event information may cause false memories of real-life events 76. D172. Evidence from studies of flashbulb memories three years suggests that a unique event may no longer be re- membered accurately after 77. D173. A person who claims not to know who they are a fugue state; or- may be suffering from ___ and person who cannot ganic retrograde remember what happened before a head injury is suf- amnesia fering from ___ 78. D174. When specific areas of the frontal lobe and me- confabulation in dial temporal lobe are damaged the result is conjunction with amnesia 79. D177. The memories of traumatic events are difficult to for- get but remem- bered no more ac- curately than mun- dane members 80. D178. Because children below the age of four cannot afterwards when construct and tell stories they grow up they lack autobiograph- ical memory for that period of their lives 81. Q193. When novices reason They tend to think of other problems on the same or a similar topic 82. 11 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p Q194. The difference between an expert and novice the expert ex- chess player is plores a few good moves more deeply 83. Q195. A first-year college student has trouble buying prefrontal cortex all the course materials and in getting all the assign- ments done on time. You guess that the part of his brain most likely to be damaged is the 84. Q196. The failure to use a knife to pick up food when Functional fixed- no fork is available is an example of ness 85. D181. Which question is someone with William's Syn- How long is a pen- drome likely to get wrong? cil? 86. D182. The task is to press the left key if the left animal wolf chipmunk is larger and to press the right key if the right animal is larger. The fastest response is made to: 87. D183. All men are humans and all humans are reptiles, valid and false hence all men are reptiles is 88. D184. Sentences requiring visual imagery take longer read; heard to verify when ___ than ___ compared with low im- agery sentences 89. D185. Knowledge of college physics influences intuitions about the motion of ob- jects for some stu- dents 90. D186. The concrete version of a deductive reasoning is often easier than problem the abstract ver- sion 91. Q199. What is intelligence? A general ability to perform cogni- tive tasks 12 / 13  Cognition Exam 3 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g7lw2p 92. Q200. The results of cross-sectional studies indicate Processing speed, that past the third decade of life, which abilities de- working memory, cline? and verbal learn- ing 93. Q201. For the last 80 years scores on intelligence tests have increased around the world for all ethnic groups and at all levels of perfor- mance 94. Q202. The three components of the triarchic theory are analytical, practi- cal and creative in- telligence 95. D187. Two familiar things may be judged both more both more similar similar and more dissimilar than two unfamiliar things and more dissimi- because lar features can be recalled for them 96. D188. Sending a 100-man unit into combat, most offi- insuring that sur- cers would prefer a combat plan vival of 50 soldiers to one that had a 50% chance of in- suring the survival of everyone 97. D189. If it seems more likely that a college athlete will the representa- someday become a high school coach and teacher tiveness heuristic than just a high school teacher, this is because of 98. D190. A loud alarm in a casino lets all the other players it increases the that someone has just hit the jackpot at slots. This perceived likeli- encourages their play because hood of winning through the avail- ability heuristic 13 / 13