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1
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Best describes cognitive psychology?

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The scientific study of mental PROCESSES

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Why is the measurement of behaviour during the performance of cognitive tasks important for cognitive psychology?

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It provides data regarding underlying MENTAL PROCESSES

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The idea that perception involves actively creating internal representations of the world implies that these reputations are?

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SUBJECTIVE models of the physical world

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Which of the following distinguishes, bottom-up processing from top-down processing?

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Depends exclusively on SENSORY data

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What type of processin is illustrated by visual illusions?

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Top down

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Text gradients, according to Gibsons (1966), theory of direct perception, is an example of

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A data-driven notion of distance

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According to Gregory’s theory, perception is best conceptualised, as

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Indirect & active

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An object recognition, which of the following theories cannot adequately account for non-canonical representations of prototypical objects?

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Template matching

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Top-down processing is illustrated by which type of attention

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Voluntary attention

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10
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What type of information processing occurs before Attentional Bottleneck

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Parallel

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Broadbent field theory, which stimuli is more likely to be noticed when presented to the unattended channel during to dichotic listening task

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Words spoken by a different speaker

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12
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According to try Treisman’s (1964), theory of selective attention, at what level of processing the selection of information occur

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 Semantic (select word/information based on meaning)

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13
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Who is theory accounts for the processing of information, not processed at a conscious level having an effect on behaviour?

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Deutsch & Deutsch’s late selection model

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14
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What memory store is the information kept in the sensory modality, which it was detectors?

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Sensory

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15
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In memory, converting written words into sounds, in example of

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Encoding

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16
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A recall task categorised by a pattern of errors that is based on the stimulus. Acoustic properties suggests what information was coded.?

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Phonologically

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17
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The working memory model suggests that the rehearsal a Visually included information is in carried out by

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The Visup-spatial sketchpad

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18
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How can the Recency effect be explained?

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Information that is still present on the STM store

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19
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Which of the following is an example of semantic memory?

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No, in the Paris is the capital of France

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20
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An example of non-decorative long-term memory?

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Perceptual priming

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21
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A deficit in forming NEW memories

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Amterograde amnesia

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22
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Part of brain associated with executive function

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The prefrontal cortex

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23
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Type of behaviour associated with executive function

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Novel situations requiring behavioural flexibility

24
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Norman and shallice is 1986, supervisory attention model, what are schema control units

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Internal representations of ACTIONS

25
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According to Norman and in Shallice’s (1986), theory, the supervisory attentional system plays a key role in terms of

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SELECTING the appropriate Schema control unit

26
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Contention scheduling bias mechanism is responsible for the adequate implementation of?

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Familia and simple actions

27
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The nation that behaviour decisions are influenced by previously experienced bodily responses is the hallmark of?

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The somatic marker hypothesis

28
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Part of the peripheral nervous system under Voluntary control is

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Somatic nervous system

29
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Which of the following brain structures is NOT part of the limbic system?

Hippocampus

Pons

Hypothalamus

Basal ganglia

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Pons

30
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A collection of subcortical structures implicated in the movement control is there?

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Basal ganglia

31
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Where pathway of the visual system is generally located in what lobe?

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Where pathway?

32
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The WHAT pathway of the visual system is generally located in what lobe ?

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Temporal lobe

What Ventral down there

33
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Spines increase the surface area of which

A

Dendrites

34
Q

Threshold for action potential

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-55mV

35
Q

Hyperpolarisation is when the charge inside the neuron becomes

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More NEGATIVE

36
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Ions into the postsynaptic neuron via?

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GATES

37
Q

Serotonin and dopamine, a part of which group?

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Monoamines

38
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The two meso__________ dopamine pathways are the ?

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Limbic and cortical

39
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Schwann cells are glial cells and found in the?

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Peripheral nervous system

40
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Tryptophan is a precursor of a

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Neurotransmitter

41
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Gates in the axon a concentrated at the

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Spines

42
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Part of the spine cord that transmits motor information?

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Ventral horn

43
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A major pyramidal pathway in the spine is the______ tract?

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Corticospinal

44
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Brain area implicated in the sequence of movement is the

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Cerebellum

45
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Incoming sensory information, followed by the motor activity depends on

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Afferent to efferent pathways

46
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The______ hypothesis of depression implicate serotonin

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Monoamine

47
Q

Monoamine oxidase is a :
Enzyme
Precursor
Hormone
Peptide

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Enzyme

48
Q

Benzodiazepines acts as

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GABA agonist

Agonist – increases

Antagonist – blocks

49
Q

Many medications are ?

Ions
Sodium
5HT
Molecules

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Molecules

50
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An alternate hypothesis to the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia implicates

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Glutamate

51
Q

Haloperidol target:

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Dopamine receptors

52
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Distorted thinking in schizophrenia is thought to be attributed to levels of activity in which pathway?

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Mesocortical

53
Q

One negative symptom of schizophrenia
Apathy
Muscle ache
Hallucinations
Violence, 

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Apathy

54
Q

Overuse of amphetamines can lead to psychosis due to:

A

Raised dopamine levels

55
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Emotional impulsivity is a symptom of

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Borderline personality disorder

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