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1
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What is an illusion ?

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Rational inferences

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What are considered to be the 5 human senses ?

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Vision - sight
Audition - sound
Gustation - taste
Olfaction - smell
Tactician - touch

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Why have reindeer adapted to perceive ultraviolet light ?

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Allows them to detect camouflaged prey

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What illusion involves the misconception of line length ?

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Ponzo illusion

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What are some facts about light/dark adaptation ?

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It helps brightness constancy
It is responsible for negative afterimages
It enables the visual system to work under different lighting conditions

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What is the Ishihara test used to test ?

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Colour perception

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Where are rods located ?

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In the peripheral retina

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The luminance and wavelength of light are related to what two perceptions ?

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Brightness and colour

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9
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Objects that are perceived to be brighter tend to what ?

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Reflect more light

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What is it called when there is a difference in image location between the eyes ?

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Binocular disparity

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What happens in the horopter ?

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Objects falling on it will project to corresponding positions in the two references

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12
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Which Gestalt principle helps preserve the grouping of occluded objects ?

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Good continuation

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What are 3 evaluations of the Gestalt grouping principle ?

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Some have been criticised as too imprecise
They have generally been shown to hold across a range of images
They are manifestations of the law of Pragnanz

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Harmonics occur at frequencies that are what ?…

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Multiples of the fundamental frequency

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15
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A complex sound consists of more than one what ?

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Sinusoidal component of different frequencies

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16
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Do louder sounds have higher or lower firing rates in the auditory nerve fibres ?

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Higher

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17
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What are 3 facts about sound waves ?

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They require a medium to travel
They can be visualised using Ruben’s tube
They are caused by vibrations

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18
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What is the cone of confusion ?

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The set positions in space where all sound produces the same binaural localisation cues

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What are 3 facts about interaural time differences ?

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They depend of distance between the ears
They require phase locking
They are maximal when sounds are positioned to one side of the listener

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What is the lowest frequency in a sound called ?

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Fundamental frequency

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21
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Which grouping principle does not apply to the perceptual organisation of sounds ?

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Symmetry

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22
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What factors influence the magnitude of interaural time differences ?

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Location of the source in the azimuth
Speed of sound
Size of head

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23
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What percentage of correct answers were there in Broadbent’s 1952 study ?

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50% - It is very difficult to understand two messages that are presented at the same time

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What is shadowing ?

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Ps is presented with two messages and has to repeat back one of them

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Following a dichotic listening task, which characteristics would you expect to be reported from the unattended auditory stream ?

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Changes from voice to a tone
Changes from male to female

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26
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What assumptions are shared by Broadbent’s 1958 and Treisman’s 1960 model ?

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Selection occurs on the basis of physical characteristics
The perceptual systems have limited capacity
Perceptual information is a subject to a selective filter

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27
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What is true of early selection theories ?

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Unattended information is not identified

28
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According to Broadbent, on what basis is irrelevant information filtered out ?

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Physical stimulus properties

29
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What is the point of a flanker test ?

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Tests the ps ability to ignore distracting information

30
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According to Lachter 2004, what is slippage ?

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A temporary shift in attention to an unattended channel

31
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According to Lavie 1995, is processing limited ?

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Yes, if attended information consumes all processing capacity then nothing else will be attended to

32
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What is repetition priming ?

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When the prime word is the same as the test word

33
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What did Lacie and Cox 1997 class as a high perceptual load ?

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A stimulus that required search for the target

34
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Is there a difference in compatibility effects ?

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Yes, there is an effect in low perceptual load trails but not in high perceptual load trial

35
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When perceptual load is low, perceptual load is low, processing of an irrelevant channel is…?

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Unavoidable

36
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What do change blindness and inattentional blindness have in common ?

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They are both a failure to perceive things that are easily seen once noticed
They are both believed to be due to a lack of attention

37
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Simons 2000 found that changed in an image can be hard to detect if…?

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The change occurs slowly

38
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What is a difference between change blindness and inattentional blindness ?

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Whether or not memory has a role

39
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What does the interactive activation model assume ?

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There are levels of representation associated with features, letters and words
There is bi-directional activation between levels
Activated units at one level exert lateral inhibition on other units

40
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According to the logogen model what words require less activation before firing ?

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Logogens associated with high frequency words

41
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When you hear the word mechanic readers assume its a male. What is this called ?

A

An elaborative inference

42
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According to the minimalist hypothesis (Mackoon and Ratcliff 1992), when can automatic inferences be made ?

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When information is explicitly stated in the text

43
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Sperling 1960 found that information in the iconic memory decays quickly, how long is it ?

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0.5 seconds

44
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What task is least likely to interfere with a pursuit rotor tracking task ?

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The visual patterns task

45
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What tests show evidence for the phonological loop ?

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Irrelevant speech effect
Word-length effect
Phonological similarity effect

46
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What are the alternatives to Working Memory ?

A

Embedded processes model
SIMPLE model
Feature model

47
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Ps were shown a photo for 5 seconds each, even after 10,000 pictures, performance was over 80%. What is this type of memory test ?

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Recognition

48
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What is an issue with eye-witness testimony ?

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Giving a verbal description of a face can impair subsequent recognition for the face through a process known as verbal overshadowing

49
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In Mecher and Schoolers 1996 study, what did they find about wine drinkers and the effects of description ?

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Novice - memory enhances by verbalisation
Intermediate - memory reduced with verbalisation
Expert - memory unchanged

50
Q

What are the big 5 emotions ?

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Disgust
Anger
Sadness
Happiness
Fear

51
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What does SAM stand for ?

A

Self assessment manikin

52
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According to the basic emotion approach we…?

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Have a set of emotions from which all experiences can be described
Have a limited number of fundamental emotions

53
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What is the mere exposure effect ?

A

The preferential liking of objects that have previously been exposed

54
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What are the appraisal components described by Smith and Lazarus ?

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Motivational relevance
Accountability
Future expectancy

55
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Give an examples of interpretive bias

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If I took a remedy for a cold and after 2 days told my friend that this remedy cured my cold

56
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What do emotional stroop tasks show ?

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Angry faces divert participants’ attention from task relevant features

57
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What do anxious ps show ?

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Greater attention capture when they read unambiguous threat words

58
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What did Gestalt psychologist focus on their approach to problem solving ?

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Representation
Reorganization
Insight

59
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What is the major obstacle people face when solving problems ?

A

Functional fixedness

60
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Thorndike proposed that problem solving was…

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Incremental - small amounts at a time

61
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What are Wallas’ four stages of creative thinking ?

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Preparation, incubation, illumination, verification

62
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The false belief that the probability of future events is influenced by past events is called what ?

A

The gambler’s fallacy

63
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How does the availability heuristic lead to errors in reasoning ?

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Events that are more easily remembered are considered as more probable than events that are less easily remembered

64
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Making illusory correlations underlies what ?

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Superstitions
Stereotypes
Prejudice

65
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What is the conjunction rule ?

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The probability of a conjunction of two events cannot be higher than the probability of the single constituents

Psychology 1st year (4 decks)

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