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Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 3

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) The ability to store that information in memory
b) The process of giving that information meaning
c) The process of changing that information into a neural impulse
d) The ability to select one message amongst numerous

Question 2:


a) Subliminal
b) Supraliminal
c) Pre-attentive
d) Heightened

Question 3:


a) Gradient of texture density
b) Topological breakage
c) Principle of simplicity
d) Scatter-reflection

Question 4:


a) The jumbled word effect
b) That context influences perception
c) That top-down processing influences perception
d) All of the above

Question 5:


a) The transient speech effect
b) An echo
c) The word superiority effect
d) McGurk effect

Question 6:


a) True
b) False

Question 7:


a) True
b) False

Question 8:


a) True
b) False

Question 9:


a) True
b) False

Question 10:


a) True
b) False