Cognitive mcq

Question 1

In the experiment by Quinlan and Wilton (1998), the proximity and similarity principles were in “conflict”, which principle did participants rely on?

Answer 1

Half of the participants relied on the proximity and half on the similarity principle

Question 2

Greogory’s constructive processing model of visual perception is an example of which type of approach?

Answer 2

A top down approach

Question 3

Using dots of light, johansson (1975) found that people would accurately report human movement . Johansson concluded that processing human movement,,,,

Answer 3

automatic

Question 4

Research in experimental cognitive psychology of memory has been influenced heavily by the work of which psychologist?

Answer 4

Herman van Ebbinghaus

Question 5

Hyperthemesia is another term for which type of phenomenon

Answer 5

Highly superior autobiographical memory

Question 6

Patient K.J’s vocabulary was excellent, which suggests what type of memory was relatively intact?

Answer 6

Semantic memory

Question 7

Which of the following studies has NOT demonstrated that most people with amnesia have relatively intact implicit memory?

Answer 7

Ryan et al- scene relation tasl

Question 8

In relation to statements about behaviourism, what is the most important charcteristic?

Answer 8

Skinner was not interested in what was happening between stimulus and response

Question 9

Which study demonstrated that humans can switch from using an aloncentric stratergy to egocentric stratergy?

Answer 9

A virtual reality study on by larla et al (2003) in navigating in 8 arm radal maze

Question 10

Which of the processes does is NOT though to occur in the hippocampus

Answer 10

processing of highly familiar environments

Question 11

Spiers and Maguire (2007)scanned taxi drivers during a navigation task around london and found what?

Answer 11

Different areas of the brain were involved in different stages of navigation

Question 12

“The relative frequency with which an event occurs or an attribute is present in the population” (koehler, 1966) refers to…

Answer 12

Base rate

Question 13

The idea that more recent events are thoughts to occur more frequently refers to which heuristic

Answer 13

Availability

Question 14

Kahnemans (2003) dual process model of judgement distingushes system 1 and sytem 2 processes. say one stament thats correct

Answer 14

Mistakes made by participants in judgement and decision tasks are due to participants relying on system 2 processes

Question 15

People make mistakes in solving the Monty Hill problem because,,

Answer 15

They rely on simple heuristic and ignore the casuality

Question 16

The overwhelming majority of problems used in psychological experiments are…

Answer 16

knowledge lean and well defined

Question 17

According to Ohlssons (1992) theory, what prevents or delays a sudden change in the problem representation during insight problem solving?

Answer 17

Relying on past experiences

Question 18

Which process suggests that people set up sub goals during problem solving?

Answer 18

Means end analysis