Mock exam questions Flashcards
Best describes cognitive psychology?
The scientific study of mental PROCESSES
Why is the measurement of behaviour during the performance of cognitive tasks important for cognitive psychology?
It provides data regarding underlying MENTAL PROCESSES
The idea that perception involves actively creating internal representations of the world implies that these reputations are?
SUBJECTIVE models of the physical world
Which of the following distinguishes, bottom-up processing from top-down processing?
Depends exclusively on SENSORY data
What type of processin is illustrated by visual illusions?
Top down
Text gradients, according to Gibsons (1966), theory of direct perception, is an example of
A data-driven notion of distance
According to Gregory’s theory, perception is best conceptualised, as
Indirect & active
An object recognition, which of the following theories cannot adequately account for non-canonical representations of prototypical objects?
Template matching
Top-down processing is illustrated by which type of attention
Voluntary attention
What type of information processing occurs before Attentional Bottleneck
Parallel
Broadbent field theory, which stimuli is more likely to be noticed when presented to the unattended channel during to dichotic listening task
Words spoken by a different speaker
According to try Treisman’s (1964), theory of selective attention, at what level of processing the selection of information occur
 Semantic (select word/information based on meaning)
Who is theory accounts for the processing of information, not processed at a conscious level having an effect on behaviour?
Deutsch & Deutsch’s late selection model
What memory store is the information kept in the sensory modality, which it was detectors?
Sensory
In memory, converting written words into sounds, in example of
Encoding
A recall task categorised by a pattern of errors that is based on the stimulus. Acoustic properties suggests what information was coded.?
Phonologically
The working memory model suggests that the rehearsal a Visually included information is in carried out by
The Visup-spatial sketchpad
How can the Recency effect be explained?
Information that is still present on the STM store
Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?
No, in the Paris is the capital of France
An example of non-decorative long-term memory?
Perceptual priming
A deficit in forming NEW memories
Amterograde amnesia
Part of brain associated with executive function
The prefrontal cortex
Type of behaviour associated with executive function
Novel situations requiring behavioural flexibility
Norman and shallice is 1986, supervisory attention model, what are schema control units
Internal representations of ACTIONS
According to Norman and in Shallice’s (1986), theory, the supervisory attentional system plays a key role in terms of
SELECTING the appropriate Schema control unit
Contention scheduling bias mechanism is responsible for the adequate implementation of?
Familia and simple actions
The nation that behaviour decisions are influenced by previously experienced bodily responses is the hallmark of?
The somatic marker hypothesis
Part of the peripheral nervous system under Voluntary control is
Somatic nervous system
Which of the following brain structures is NOT part of the limbic system?
Hippocampus
Pons
Hypothalamus
Basal ganglia
Pons
A collection of subcortical structures implicated in the movement control is there?
Basal ganglia
Where pathway of the visual system is generally located in what lobe?
Where pathway?
The WHAT pathway of the visual system is generally located in what lobe ?
Temporal lobe
What Ventral down there
Spines increase the surface area of which
Dendrites
Threshold for action potential
-55mV
Hyperpolarisation is when the charge inside the neuron becomes
More NEGATIVE
Ions into the postsynaptic neuron via?
GATES
Serotonin and dopamine, a part of which group?
Monoamines
The two meso__________ dopamine pathways are the ?
Limbic and cortical
Schwann cells are glial cells and found in the?
Peripheral nervous system
Tryptophan is a precursor of a
Neurotransmitter
Gates in the axon a concentrated at the
Spines
Part of the spine cord that transmits motor information?
Ventral horn
A major pyramidal pathway in the spine is the______ tract?
Corticospinal
Brain area implicated in the sequence of movement is the
Cerebellum
Incoming sensory information, followed by the motor activity depends on
Afferent to efferent pathways
The______ hypothesis of depression implicate serotonin
Monoamine
Monoamine oxidase is a :
Enzyme
Precursor
Hormone
Peptide
Enzyme
Benzodiazepines acts as
GABA agonist
Agonist – increases
Antagonist – blocks
Many medications are ?
Ions
Sodium
5HT
Molecules
Molecules
An alternate hypothesis to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia implicates
Glutamate
Haloperidol target:
Dopamine receptors
Distorted thinking in schizophrenia is thought to be attributed to levels of activity in which pathway?
Mesocortical
One negative symptom of schizophrenia
Apathy
Muscle ache
Hallucinations
Violence, 
Apathy
Overuse of amphetamines can lead to psychosis due to:
Raised dopamine levels
Emotional impulsivity is a symptom of
Borderline personality disorder
