MODULE 1

Question 1

Used to show brain activity in certain psychological states, such as alertness or drowsiness. It is useful in the diagnosis of seizures and other medical problems that involve an overabundance or lack of activity in certain parts of the brain.

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EEG

Question 2

Cognitive Neuroscience is the study of the physiological basis of emotion.

TRUE OR FALSE

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FALSE

Question 3

Only relevant information is passed through the sensory memory to the short-term memory.

TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 4

The initial 200-500 milliseconds after an item is perceived is stored in the

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Sensory Memory

Question 5

GABA and Glutamate are categorized as

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AMINO ACIDS

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Mood regular from the CNS that is linked with anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia.

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GABA

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Most abundant neurotransmitter found in CNS. Supports cognitive functions such as memory formation and learning

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GLUTAMATE

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Suppressing arousal and improving sleep cycles.

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ADENOSINE

Question 9

Has an important role in autonomic control, sensory transduction, and communication with glial cells.

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ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE

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Inhibit pain signals. Also links to laughter, love, sex and appetizing food.

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ENDORPHINS

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Released when doing pleasurable and rewarding activities.

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DOPAMINE

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Helps regulate mood, depression, behavior, sleep and memory.

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SEROTONIN

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Link with issues relating to memory and thinking such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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ACETYLCHOLINE

Question 14

Prevalent during fight or flight response aiding alertness.

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NOREPINEPHRINE

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The branch of Psychology that is concerned with the scientific study of the mind.

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Cognitive Psychology

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Inability to focus attention on individual object due to damage in parietal lobe.

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Balint’s Syndrome

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Known for his memory research where his methods remain the basis of all psychological experimentation.

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Herman Ebbinghaus

Question 18

The senses can pick up information and the brain can process it but it can’t recognize or make sense of the information coming in.

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Associative agnosia

Question 19

The part of the memory where any information is first registered.

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Sensory Memory

Question 20

The following are major parts of neuron except for

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Myelin sheath

Question 21

Along segmented fiber that passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands

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AXON

Question 21

Cognitive Revolution means the shift from the study of the stimulus response relations to the study of mental processes.

TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 22

German physiologist and psychologist who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology.

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Wilhelm Wundt

Question 23

The process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original information is no longer present.

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MEMORY

Question 24

Refers to the inability to recognize or interpret sensory information, despite having normal sensory function.

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AGNOSIA

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Refers to the idea that neurological differences reflect normal variations in brain development.

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NEURODIVERSITY

Question 26

Jane has trust issues since he experienced several times that his partners would lie about another romantic relationship.

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BAYESIAN INFERENCE

Question 27

Children often repeat what they hear, this is called __

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SHADOWING

Question 28

Helmholtz and Bayes believe that we use data about the environment as we gather through our past experiences in perceiving. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 29

The capacity of STM depends on the complexity or compressibility of the stimulus to be remembered. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 30

These brain scans are the form of neural imaging most directly useful to the field of psychology.

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MRI OR fMRI

Question 31

The time it takes to respond to presented stimulus.

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REACTION TIME

Question 32

Simple action such as picking up a piece of paper involves simple brain activity that eventually creates perceptions and behavior. TRUE OR FALSE

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FALSE

Question 33

People can complete two tasks at the same time if they are using different processes but makes it difficult if they are using the same processes in the brain. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 34

Function on decision-making, problem-solving, consciousness, and emotion.

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FRONTAL LOBE

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We can only locate generalized areas of brain activity and not specific locations.

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PET

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Perceptions is universal TRUE OR FALSE

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FALSE

Question 37

Cognition refers to ALL mental activities and mental processes. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 38

The overall experience is determined by combining basic elements of experience or sensations.

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STRUCTURALISM

Question 39

Noninvasive, poses little health risk, and can be used on infants and in utero, providing a consistent mode of imaging across the development spectrum. One disadvantage is that the patient has to hold still for long periods of time in a noisy, cramped space while the imaging is performed.

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MRI

Question 40

Distributing learning over time is called __

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SPACING

Question 41

Experience cannot direct how the neurons respond, but it respond to stimuli more. TRUE OR FALSE

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FALSE

Question 42

We perceive the object that is most likely to have caused the pattern of stimuli we have received.

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LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE

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The first step in processing an image of an object.

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PREATTENTIVE STAGE

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Modern cognitive psychologists suggest that the principle of organization has been created by experience. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 45

Interference that occurs when information that was learned previously interferes with learning new information.

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PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

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The father of Modern Psychology

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Wilhelm Wundt

Question 47

The patient can perform mental tasks and the area of action can be detected through blood flow from one part of the brain to another by taking pictures less than a second apart and showing where the brain “lights up.”.

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fMRI

Question 48

The average capacity of STM is about ___ items

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5-9

Question 49

A neurological condition that makes it difficult or impossible to make certain movements even if the muscles are normal.

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APRAXIA

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Responsible for learning, memory, hearing, language

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TEMPORAL LOBE

Question 51

The quote ‘the whole is more than the sum of its parts’ is a popular notion of ___

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GESTALT

Question 52

Jen briefly hears a music as she gets out of the grab car but could not recall the sound after she enters the school gate.

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Echoic Memory

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Refers to the observation that our memory for lists of words is better for short words than for long words.

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WORD LENGTH EFFECT

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Responsible for breathing, swallowing, heart rate, and blood pressure.

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BRAINSTEM

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Refers to the confusion of letters or words that sound similar.

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PHONOLOGICAL LOOP

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Uses procedures with visual items that cannot be verbalized.

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VISUOSPATIAL SKETCH PAD

Question 57

Enables the limited capacity of STM system to deal with the large amount of information involved in many of the tasks we perform everyday.

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CHUNKING

Question 58

The repetition of an irrelevant sound reduces memory because speaking interferes with rehearsal.

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ARTICULATORY SUPPRESSION

Question 59

The Leaky Filter Model suggests that the messages from the environment would pass through __ where analysis of messages creates meaning as we perceive it.

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ATTENUATOR

Question 60

According to Broadbent Filter Model, the messages that was captured by the sensory memory will be __.

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FILTERED

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The following are necessary for efficient learning.

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Elaboration and active involvement

Question 62

STM and WM are the same. TRUE OR FALSE

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FALSE

Question 63

Conducted the first cognitive psychology experiment.

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Franciscus Donders

Question 64

Cognitive Neuropsychology emphasizes cognitive effects of brain injury or neurological illnesses with a view to inferring normal cognitive model. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 65

Machine that behave in ways that human would behave.

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Artificial intelligence

Question 66

Which of the following helps learning and memory. A. Frequently ask yourself ‘why?’ and try to explain what you have read to yourself. B. Repeatedly return to what you have read and relate this topic to previous topics. C. Do the test at the end of the chapter using online assessment tools. D. ALL OF THE OPTIONS

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D. ALL OF THE OPTIONS

Question 67

Vic responds to a friend that is calling him while he did not hear when one of the bullies tried to get his attention even if the voice of the latter is louder

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SELECTIVE ATTENTION

Question 68

____ led to the discovery of latent learning and cognitive maps.

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RAT MAZE

Question 69

Occurs because of incongruent trials where the names of the words cause a competing response and therefore slows responding to the target which is the color of the ink.

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STROOP EFFECT

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Prior probability is multiplied by the likelihood to determine the probability of the outcome.

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BAYESIAN INFERENCE

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Shifting attention by making eye movements.

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OVERT ATTENTION

Question 72

There is a relationship between stress and memory. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 73

A person is conditioned to expect a negative response or to anticipate negative effects from an experience.

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NOCEBO

Question 74

Some series of numbers are easier to chunk than others. TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE

Question 75

It covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses.

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Myelin sheath

Question 76

Xandra tried to recall the plate number of the car that hit her mother but the car was so fast she only remembers half of the digits.

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Iconic Memory

Question 77

The father of Cognitive Psychology

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Ulrich Neisser

Question 78

Perception includes the following except: - MEMORIES - EXPECTATION - SENSES - SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

Question 79

A technique in which trained participants describe their sensations, feelings and thought processes in response to stimuli.

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Analytic Introspection