Start Exam: Psychology 9.00SC Exam II Fall 2011 by Prof.

Question: Experimental studies show that, for equal losses or gains, people are:

Choices:

risk averse for losses and gains.

risk taking for losses and gains.

risk averse for gains and risk taking for losses.

risk taking for gains and risk averse for losses.

Question: Patients with anterograde global amnesia typically have:

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a temporally limited retrograde amnesia.

no retrograde amnesia at all.

a retrograde amnesia for the most distant past parts of their lives.

a complete retrograde amnesia.

Question: Studies of patients with brain injuries have revealed that declarative memory depends on the _______; procedural memory depends on the _____; repetition priming depends on ______.

Choices:

basal ganglia; hippocampus; neocortex

hippocampus; basal ganglia; neocortex

basal ganglia; neocortex; hippocampus

hippocampus; neocortex; basal ganglia

Question: Which of the following is NOT true about human language development in children?

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Left hemisphere specialization for speech is evident within days of birth.

Children can distinguish all sounds in all languages up to about an age of 3 years.

Girls, on average, learn the meanings of more words in the first two years of life.

Parental communication in “motherese” involves short pauses, ca reful enunciation, and exaggerated intonation in a high pitch that helps infants perceive language.

Question: Memory researchers have studied factors that make it more or le ss likely that a person will remember or forget information. People remember material, like recall of nonsense syllables, better if they sleep 8 hours between study and test than if they are awake for 8 hours between study and test; this result supports the idea of __________. People make more errors in remembering a list of words (such as names of fruits) if they have just previously studied another similar list of words (like names of other frui ts); this results supports the idea of ________. People remember a list of words better if they study and recall words in the same environment (like studying underwater and recalling underwater) than in different environments (like studying underwater and recalling on land); this results supports the idea of _________.

Choices:

encoding specificity; retroactive interference; proactive interference

retroactive interference; proactive interference; encoding spec ificity

retroactive interference; encoding specificity; proactive interference

proactive interference; encoding specificity; retroactive inter ference

Question: A patient with a right-sided removal of the hippocampus would be impaired on which of the following?

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short-term verbal memory

long-term verbal memory

short-term visuo-spatial memory

long-term visuo-spatial memory

Question: The children of highly successful people are often less successful than their parents. This observation reflects most certainly

Choices:

the pressure of growing up with enormous parental expectations.

confirmation bias.

regression to the mean.

the lack of attention from parents devoted to career.

Question: Experimental evidence indicates which of the following about lexical access (thinking about the meaning of words)?

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All meanings of words are activated for about 500 msec, and then only the relevant meaning is activated at 2000 msec.

All meanings of words are activated for about 500 msec through 2000 msec.

Only relevant meanings of words are activated for about 500 mse c through 2000 msec.

Relevant meanings of words are activated for about 500 msec, an d then all meanings are activated at 2000 msec.

Question: The number of items that can be held in short-term memory is typically conceptualized as:

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3 plus or minus 2

5 plus or minus 2

7 plus or minus 2

9 plus or minus 2

Question: Chess masters and chess beginners were shown chess pieces on a chessboard, and then asked to reconstruct the locations of the chess pieces from memory. Some of the pieces were shown from normal games (normal arrays) and some were shown in random arrays. Researchers found that:

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Chess masters had superior memory relative to chess beginners for chess pieces in normal arrays, and the two groups had equal memory for chess pieces in random arrays.

Chess masters had superior memory relative to chess beginners for chess pieces in both normal and random arrays.

Chess masters had superior memory relative to chess beginners for chess pieces in random arrays, and the two groups had equal memory for chess pieces in normal arrays.

Chess masters had superior memory for chess pieces in normal arrays, and inferior memory relative to chess beginners for chess pieces in random arrays.

Question: Patients with right or left hemisphere lesions were compared to healthy control subjects in their abilities to interpret (identify) people who are lying th rough facial expressions alone or through facial expressions and vocal cues. What was found?

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Patients with right hemisphere lesions were more accurate than patients with left hemisphere lesions and healthy people.

Patients with left hemisphere lesions were more accurate than patients with right hemisphere lesions and healthy people.

Patients with right hemisphere lesions were as accurate as controls and more accurate than patients with left hemisphere lesions.

Patients with left hemisphere lesions were as accurate as controls and more accurate than patients with right hemisphere lesions.