CogSci Text Questions

The argument that language develops as a result of an innate mechanism that is not dependent on the environment is proposed by:
A. Fodor
B. Skinner
C. Neisser
D. Chomsky

In cognitive psychology, process models are used to represent:
A. parallel distributive processing
B. the connectionist paradigm of information processing
C. the independent stages through which information processing proceeds
D. the codependence among stages of information processing

Which aspect of the Pandemonium model would represent the overall appearance of a letter?
A. a cognitive demon
B. an image demon
C. a decision demon
D. a feature demon

You are looking in your closet for your green wool sweater in a pile of black pants. Detecting the green sweater requires:
A. a serial search
B. a 2 1/2-D sketch
C. pre-attentive processing
D. focused attention

In Broadbent's theory of attention, a filter selects information to be attended to based on:
A. dichotic listening
B. physical characteristics
C. the cocktail party effect
D. divided attention

The fact that we can recognize a frying pan when it is viewed from the top and from the side is accounted for by:
A. invariance
B. conversion
C. discriminability
D. occlusion

TRUE or FALSE?
In Triesman's parallel search, items are scanned one at a time until the target stimulus pops out.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
The dichotic listening task was developed to study selective attention.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
According to Kahneman, attentional capacity is optimal during periods of high arousal.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
It is more difficult to recognize an object when the junctions between geons are occluded.
True False

What is the duration of iconic memory?
A. 30 secs
B. unlimited
C. 250 msecs
D. 65 years

Tony goes to a party and asks for Jill’s phone number. She tells him but he is unable to write it down. Which of the following would guarantee that he calls her the next day?
A. he repeats the number to himself for one minute
B. he gets immediately distracted by talking to his friend Tom
C. he immediately begins to think about other women at the party
D. none of the above

Which of the following is a form of declarative memory?
A. episodic memory
B. working memory
C. procedural memory
D. echoic memory

What is the name of the process by which information is taken in and converted to a useable mental form?
A. rehearsal
B. storage
C. retrieval
D. encoding

John is a participant in a visual image experiment. He is asked to imagine an image of a truck, focusing on its headlights. Then he is asked how many exhaust pipes it has. In the Kosslyn-Schwartz theory of images, what process is needed to answer?
A. put
B. zoom
C. scan
D. pan

Which problem-solving model is capable of solving a wider range of problems and is an example of a cognitive architecture?
A. the SOAR model
B. the Tower of Hanoi model
C. the GPS model
D. the Missionary-Cannibals model

TRUE or FALSE?
Echoic memory lasts for less than one second.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
The capacity of long-term memory may be unlimited.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
In an arithmetic problem, the act of multiplication is considered an operator.
True False

TRUE or FALSE?
The primacy effect is when more items are recalled from the beginning of a list.
True False