Psych 230 Final Exam Questions and Answers A+ Graded
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Psych 230 Final Exam
Questions and Answers
A+ Graded
ICD-10 - ANSWER international classification of diseases-10th revision
published by who
DSM-II - ANSWER First revision; provides common language for talking
about disorders in 1968
DSM-III - ANSWER The third edit...
Psychology 230 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
A+ ALREADY GRADED
Retrograde amnesia is usually less severe for _________ memories. - ANSWER
✔ remote
Elaborative rehearsal of a word will LEAST likely be accomplished by -
ANSWER ✔ repeating it over and over.
Hebb's idea of long-term potentiation, which provides a physiological mechanism
for the long-term storage of memories, includes the idea of - ANSWER ✔
increased firing in the neurons.
_______________ consolidation involves the gradual reorganization of circuits
within brain regions and takes place on a fairly long time scale, lasting weeks,
months, or even years. - ANSWER ✔ Systems
According to the multiple trace model, the hippocampus is involved in retrieval of
- ANSWER ✔ remote, episodic memories.
Recent research on memory, based largely on fear conditioning in rats, indicates
that - ANSWER ✔ when a memory is reactivated, it becomes capable of being
changed or altered, just as it was immediately after it was formed.
During a visit to an art museum, you appreciate the simple beauty of Ramón y
Cajal's drawings of the brain. Your ability to see the drawings as complete pictures
rather than individual, disconnected dots of color, texture, and location is because
of a process called - ANSWER ✔ binding
Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic
disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head
and can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect - ANSWER ✔ a failure of
memory consolidation.
, Students, beware! Research shows that _____ does not improve reading
comprehension because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the
material. - ANSWER ✔ highlighting
In the "Monkey Business Illusion," participants watched a film of people playing
basketball. Many failed to report that a person in a gorilla suit walked through
because - ANSWER ✔ participants were counting the number of ball passes.
In Schneider & Shiffrin's experiment, in which participants were asked to indicate
whether a target was present in a series of rapidly presented "frames," divided
attention was easier - ANSWER ✔ once processing had become automatic.
Imagine that U.S. lawmakers are considering changing the driving laws and you
have been consulted as an attention expert. Given the principles of divided
attention, when would a person have the most difficulty with driving and therefore
pose the biggest safety risk on the road? - ANSWER ✔ When the person is driving
an unfamiliar vehicle that is more difficult to operate
Results of precueing experiments show that participants respond more rapidly to a
stimulus that appeared at the ____________ location. - ANSWER ✔ cued
When simple colored shapes (e.g. red square, green circle) are flashed quickly on
a screen one after the other, people often make mistakes by reporting the wrong
color with the wrong shape (e.g. green square, red circle). Treisman would say this
is evidence for - ANSWER ✔ a preattentive stage in attention.
If you used a digit span task to measure participants' short term memory capacity,
which results would surprise you the LEAST (or in other words, what results
would you expect to see?) ? (mark all that apply): - ANSWER ✔ 5 and 7
If instead of a digit span task, you measured STM capacity by asking people to
identify the number of changes stimuli undergo, you would expect most people to
report approximately how many changes? - ANSWER ✔ 4
We may see these differences in STM capacity in Questions 41 & 42 - or between
the digit span task and the change detection task - because of the type of
____________ used in each. - ANSWER ✔ meaningful units of information
, You are standing in line at Starbucks on Franklin St. when you spot an
unexpected, but familiar face. Former First Lady Michelle Obama is also waiting
in line! Michelle Obama's face is most likely represented in your nervous system
by the firing of - ANSWER ✔ a group of neurons each responding to a number of
different faces.
Older adults often become nostalgic for the "good old days" when they were
adolescents or young adults. This could reflect that - ANSWER ✔ memory for life
events is enhanced during the time we assume our life identities.
Extrapolating from the cultural life script hypothesis, which of the following
events would be EASIEST to recall at age 95? - ANSWER ✔ Graduating from
college at age 22
Police detectives are investigating two robberies that happened over the weekend.
In the first robbery, a thief snatched a woman's bag as she walked down the street.
In the second robbery, a thief held up a gas station with a gun. In which case
should detectives be more wary of eyewitness testimony? - ANSWER ✔ the
second case, because Stanny & Johnson found that the presence of a weapon
hinders memory for other parts of the event.
Your friend's 73-year-old grandmother is telling you about her vivid memories of
historical events from throughout her lifetime. For which event is her memory
most likely to contain errors? - ANSWER ✔ JFK assassination (1962)
People of all ages report vivid memories for how they found out about important
cultural or historical moments, such as the assassination of JFK or MLK, Jr. or the
terrorist attacks on 9/11. One explanation for why these become "flashbulb
memories" is: - ANSWER ✔ we encounter information about the events over and
over in what we read, see on TV or movies, and talk about with other people.
Which of the following is NOT a reason that assigning conceptual categories to
things is useful for interacting with the world: - ANSWER ✔ They provide
definitions of groups of related objects.
Not all of the members of everyday categories have the same features. Most fish
have gills, fins, and scales. Sharks lack the feature of scales, yet they are still
categorized as fish. This poses a problem for the _______ approach to
categorization. - ANSWER ✔ definitional
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