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Question 1:

Which term refers to our assumptions about why others behave or think the way they do?
a) Folk psychology
b) Cognitive ethology
c) The Brown–Peterson task
d) Information processing theory

Question 2:

What did Hyman’s early experiments demonstrate?
a) Response times slow down as the likelihood of a stimulus increases.
b) Response times speed up as the likelihood of a stimulus decreases.
c) It takes more time to respond to probable stimuli than improbable stimuli.
d) It takes more time to respond to improbable stimuli than probable stimuli.

Question 3:

You have been recruited to participate in a psychology. The experimenter asks you to wear headphones, listen to a series of numbers, and recall them in any order you like. You hear pairs of different numbers at the same time, one in each ear. For example, if you hear “17,” you would hear the “1” in the left ear and the “7” in the right ear. After hearing the series 17–82–64, how would you likely recall them?
a) 186–724
b) 178–264
c) 172–864
d) 462–871

Question 4:

Who argued that the stimuli used by information-processing psychologists in their experiments were often impoverished in comparison with the information available in the real world?
a) D.E. Broadbent
b) J.J. Gibson
c) Ulric Neisser
d) Waugh and Norman

Question 5:

Which of the following would NOT be studied in human experimental psychology?
a) Memory
b) Language
c) Brain damage
d) Attention

Question 6:

The second stage of the development of the study of human cognition took place in the mid-1970s and was fuelled by computational analysis and marked the arrival of cognitive science.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

If two messages are presented, you are more likely to respond more quickly to the one that is unexpected.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Findings from the dichotic listening task demonstrate that we are relatively good at paying attention to two messages (one at each ear).
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Information that is absent from awareness is considered to be in secondary memory.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Our expectations of what we are likely to find as we explore the world are known as affordances.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 1