Could You Pass This Hardest Cognition Test? Trivia Quiz
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- 1.Which is NOT true of semantic memory
- A.
General world knowledge
- B.
A person's mental encyclopedia and dictionary
- C.
Includes language
- D.
Critically depends on pituitary functioning
- 2."ROBIN is a BIRD" is NOT an example of:
- A.
A proposition
- B.
Perceptual categorization
- C.
An "isa" statement
- D.
Category membership
- 3."The sheer quantity of information involved... argues strongly that both the human subject's memory and our model thereof contain as little redundancy as possible and that it [should] contain stored facts only when these cannot otherwise be generated or inferred.
- A.
Cognitive economy
- B.
Encoding specificity
- C.
Dual-coding hypothesis
- D.
Characteristic feature storage
- 4.In semantic memory research, the result that typical members of a category tend to be judged as members of the category more rapidly than atypical members
- A.
Typicality effect
- B.
Redundancy gain
- C.
Feature effect
- D.
Familiarity bias
- 5.Which is NOT true?
- A.
Evidence supports the notion that multiple types of categorization are used.
- B.
Typical members resemble the prototype of the category.
- C.
Diffusion reduces the priming effects for central categorical membership.
- D.
Real-world concepts and categories involve fuzzy boundaries.
- 6.Lexical means:
- A.
Network
- B.
Meaning
- C.
Response time
- D.
Dictionary
- 7.Anomia is a
- A.
Deficit in memory due to brain injury
- B.
Deficit in comprehension due to brain injury
- C.
Deficit in reading due to brain injury
- D.
Deficit in word finding due to brain injury
- 8."A theoretical perspective in which different abilities, characteristics, type of cognitive processes, and so forth are theorized to be represented in separate components or modules in memory"
- A.
Individual differences
- B.
Modularity
- C.
Hemispheric speciation
- D.
Comprehensive function
- 9.The proper term for better-than-baseline response (generally a result of useful advance information):
- A.
Facilitation
- B.
Stroop
- C.
Typicality
- D.
Prototyping
- 10.Which is NOT a purported advantage of using connectionist modeling to study cognition?
- A.
The yes/no of neural firing mirrors the on/off binary aspect of connectionist units.
- B.
Individual units within connectionist models are "similar" to neurons.
- C.
Massive parallel functions allow us to extrapolate beyond what computers can model.
- D.
Structural similarity to neural connections
- 11.Which is NOT one of Schacter's "seven sins of memory"?
- A.
Blocking
- B.
Transience
- C.
Suggestibility
- D.
Transfer
- 12.Schemata
- A.
A stored framework or body of knowledge about some topic
- B.
An active organization of past reactions or past experiences
- C.
A knowledge structure in memory prospective memory
- D.
All of the above
- 13.The most likely problem for the effective and fair use of eyewitness testimony in court proceedings is
- A.
Semantic roles as pathway labels
- B.
Recollection or recognition of exactly what was experienced
- C.
Propositional encoding
- D.
A "hit" despite a high proportion of "false alarms"
- 14.Large scale semantic and episodic knowledge structures that guide our interpretation and comprehension of daily experience
- A.
Scripts
- B.
Isolationistics
- C.
Propositions
- D.
Mnemonics
- 15.Which is NOT mentioned as a source of memory distortion?
- A.
Source misattribution
- B.
Misinformation acceptance
- C.
Overconfidence in memory
- D.
Encoding specificity
- 16.Refers to the ease with which something is processed or comes to mind
- A.
Reconstruction
- B.
Semanitc Processing
- C.
Processing fluency
- D.
Source effect
- 17.Bahrick, Bahrick, & Wittlinger report a study "Fifty years of names and faces." They report:
- A.
Excellent preservation at a picture-matching task
- B.
Poor levels of recognition for pictures
- C.
Excellent preserved recall for names despite picture cues
- D.
Excellent preserved recall for names
- 18.Attaching a title to a story can distort recall or recollection of the story.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Memory can be described as an incredibly powerful system that is, nonetheless, quite prone to error.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.In script picture stories:
- A.
Atypical information is remembered better than typical information
- B.
"Effects" produce fewer memory impairments than do "causes"
- C.
After correcting for guessing, typical content is remembered better than atypical content
- D.
People have good technical accuracy, even across a five day retention interval
- 21.Sign language is a true language
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Understanding productivity is argued to be the key to understanding language.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Languages with more phonemes allow more complex ideas to be communicated.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.With training, grammatical versus ungrammatical sentence structures do not impact shadowing performance.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Any theory of speech recognition must account for both data-driven and conceptually driven processing.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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