1) Animals and humans are shown items that have a 75/25 probability of being in one
of two categories.
Which participants would perform the best on this task?
a.intact humans
b. intact animals
c.right-hemisphere-damaged patients
d. The groups listed above would perform equally well.
2) To explain dichotic listening findings such as the observation that a participant
usually notices when his or her own name is embedded in the ignored channel,
Treisman (1969) proposed that
a. unattended information is not completely excluded from higher analysis, but merely
attenuated.
b. attention can be explained only in terms of late, rather than early, selection
mechanisms.
c. relatively unique types of stimuli, such as names, do not require attention for
processing.
d. familiar stimuli that have been learned previously by participants do not require
attention for processing.
3) Which of the following types of topographic representation does NOT incorporate
information about the location of a stimulus in space?
a. retinotopic maps in the visual cortex
b. motor maps in the motor cortex
c. cochleotopic maps in the auditory cortex
d. somatosensory maps in the somatosensory cortex
4) A determinist judge may follow either a_______ or___________ approach to justice
a.restorative ; utilitarian
b. retributivist ; utilitarian
c.restorative ; retributivist
d. restorative ; intuitive
5) The dorsal portions of the gray matter in the spinal cord carry
a.motor information.
b.sensory information.
c.motor and sensory information from the dorsal surface of the body.
d.sensory and motor information to the cerebellum.
6) _____________is to the meaning of a word as__________is to the spelling of a
word.
a. Orthography ; phonology
b. Phonology ; prosody
c.Prosody ; semantics
d. Semantics ; orthography
7) Why are we not able to perfectly predict chaotic systems?
a.the butterfly effect
b.poor measurement sensitivity
c.the three-body problem
d.free will
8) Simple reflexive motor responses to external stimuli rely primarily on the function of
the _________, whereas motor behaviors that are only minimally dependent on such
external cues rely primarily on the function of the _________.
a. basal ganglia ; spinal cord
b. cerebellum ; brainstem
c. spinal cord ; motor cortex
d. motor cortex ; brainstem
9) One finding that supports the idea that information in working memory is
represented by an acoustic (auditory) code rather than a semantic (meaning-based) code
is that when participants are given a list of words to learn and then are immediately
tested for recall,
a. performance is worse when the list contains items that are similar in meaning.
b. performance is better when the list contains items that are similar in meaning.
c. performance is worse when the list contains items that are similar in sound.
d. performance is better when the list contains items that are similar in sound.
10) The frontal lobe is __________to the occipital lobe, whereas the temporal lobe is to
the parietal lobe.
a.posterior ; superior
b. anterior ; inferior
c.superior ; caudal
d. inferior ; rostral