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Psyc 341: Quiz 1

Among the most important forces accounting for a cognitive neuroscience revolution during the years following the late 1950s was:

Cognitive models are based on observations that describe:

The specialty within computer science that aims at simulating human cognitive processes is called:

Which of the following is not a principle area cognitive psychology draws upon?

The assumption that cognition can be analyzed into a series of hypothetical stages and that at each stage a unique function is carried out on incoming information is central to:

The one element most cognitive models share is:

The thalamus:

Visual information connected to the right hemisphere is received from ________. (Hint: think about this question and what the answer choices are. Refer back to the pictures in the conference area for Week 1.)

Techniques that allow scientists to peer into the human brain include:

The corpus callosum:

Commissurotomized patients were studied by:

At the synapse neurotransmission is achieved by means of:

Studies on commissurotomized patients indicate that the left side of the brain is involved in all but which of the following cognitive process:

The fact that Sharon is able to hear her son call her, over all the other playground noises, illustrates the psychological concept of:

In Treisman's attenuation model, the selective filter is in effect, a(n):

Which of the following would a research participant most likely be able to hear if it occurred on the unattended channel in a dichotic listening experiment?

What is iconic storage?

Which theory best fits with the idea that information processing is restricted by channel capacity?

Which model suggests we listen to the meaning of what we hear instead of the physical characteristics?

Feature analysis suggests that pattern perception is:

What theoretical position theorizes that parts of the entire configuration derive their meaning from their membership as a whole?

The left hemisphere of the brain is more efficient at , whereas the right is more efficient with (the) _?

The technique in which a stimulus is briefly presented and then, after a delay, a second stimulus is presented and a research participant is asked to make some judgment is known as:

Several theoretical positions have been offered to explain the cognitive processes underlying pattern recognition. These include all but:

Recognition of a visual pattern by matching sensory stimuli to an internal construct would be an example of:

Among the most important forces accounting for a cognitive neuroscience revolution during the years following the late 1950s was:

Psyc 341: Quiz 1

Among the most important forces accounting for a cognitive neuroscience revolution during the years following the late 1950s was:

Cognitive models are based on observations that describe:

The specialty within computer science that aims at simulating human cognitive processes is called:

Which of the following is not a principle area cognitive psychology draws upon?

The assumption that cognition can be analyzed into a series of hypothetical stages and that at each stage a unique function is carried out on incoming information is central to:

The one element most cognitive models share is:

The thalamus:

Visual information connected to the right hemisphere is received from ________. (Hint: think about this question and what the answer choices are. Refer back to the pictures in the conference area for Week 1.)

Techniques that allow scientists to peer into the human brain include:

The corpus callosum:

Commissurotomized patients were studied by:

At the synapse neurotransmission is achieved by means of:

Studies on commissurotomized patients indicate that the left side of the brain is involved in all but which of the following cognitive process:

The fact that Sharon is able to hear her son call her, over all the other playground noises, illustrates the psychological concept of:

In Treisman's attenuation model, the selective filter is in effect, a(n):

Which of the following would a research participant most likely be able to hear if it occurred on the unattended channel in a dichotic listening experiment?

What is iconic storage?

Which theory best fits with the idea that information processing is restricted by channel capacity?

Which model suggests we listen to the meaning of what we hear instead of the physical characteristics?

Feature analysis suggests that pattern perception is:

What theoretical position theorizes that parts of the entire configuration derive their meaning from their membership as a whole?

The left hemisphere of the brain is more efficient at ______, whereas the right is more efficient with (the) _______?

The technique in which a stimulus is briefly presented and then, after a delay, a second stimulus is presented and a research participant is asked to make some judgment is known as:

Several theoretical positions have been offered to explain the cognitive processes underlying pattern recognition. These include all but:

Recognition of a visual pattern by matching sensory stimuli to an internal construct would be an example of:

Among the most important forces accounting for a cognitive neuroscience revolution during the years following the late 1950s was:

The left hemisphere of the brain is more efficient at , whereas the right is more efficient with (the) _?