True/
False
False
Action potentials are measured by looking at amplitude: T or F?
False
What is the definition of operant conditioning?
a. A system of learning where a neutral stimulus is paired with an outcome and after many repetitions of the pairing, the neural stimulus produces the outcome.
b. A system of learning where observable behavior is then repeated
c. A system of learning where behavior is shaped by rewards and punishments
d. A system of learning where behavior is shaped by procedural memory
c. A system of learning where behavior is shaped by rewards and punishments
Bonus (50pt): What is a?
Which brain structure was involved in rule selection?
a. Prefrontal cortex
b. Caudate
c. Hippocampus
d. Anterior cingulate
d. Anterior cingulate
What method of learning was used in the Little Albert experiment?
a. Classical conditioning
b. Operant conditioning
c. Hierarchical processing
d. Sensory coding
a. Classical conditioning
Donald is looking at a cork board in the PSYC building full of flyers for different orgs. Since it’s the beginning of the year, the board is flooded and behind the first layer are remnants of other flyers often taking the shapes of L-shapes or smaller elongated rectangles from the remnants of the flyer. Donald pushes back a first layer flyer to reveal a full rectangular flyer: what principle is in play here (pick the best choice)?
a. Helmholtz’s Theory of Unconscious Inference
b. Occlusion problem
c. Principle of Good Continuation
d. Top-down processing
a. Helmholtz’s Theory of Unconscious Inference
The charge for resting potential for neurons is -70mv: T or F?
True
What is the definition of top-down pr
a. the knowledge of what a given scene ordinarily contains
b. the sequence of events from eye to brain
c. previous knowledge enables people to identify objects and situations quickly
d. the phenomenon of perceiving the object most likely to have caused a stimulus pattern
c. previous knowledge enables people to identify objects and situations quickly
Bonus:
What is the answer to a? 100 pts
What is the answer to d? 100 pts
Which area of the brain involved the identification of body parts?
a. Fusiform face area (FFA)
b. Extrastriate body area (EBA)
c. Caudate
d. Occipital lobe
b. Extrastriate body area (EBA)
Bonus (50pts): What is the function of the occipital lobe?
Who developed the three-stage model of memory?
a. Blackmoore and Cooper
b. Wilhelm Helmhotz
c. Atkison and Shiffrin
d. Tulving
c. Atkison and Shiffrin
James goes to the mall and is looking to buy running shoes. Given his current environment, he remembers that malls typically have a large interactive map to navigate his way. The fact that he is expecting or looking for the map, given that he is in the mall is an example of …
a. Helmholtz’s Theory of Unconscious Inference
b. Oblique Effect
c. Feature detectors
d. Scene schema
d. Scene schema
The three parts of the neuron is the axon, synapse, and dendrites: T or F?
False
What is the definition of sparse coding?
a. Representation of a stimulus by the firing of specifically tuned neurons specialized to respond only to a specific stimulus
b. Representation of a stimulus by the pattern of firing of a large number of neurons
c. Representation of a stimulus by a pattern of firing of only a small group of neurons, with the majority of neurons remaining silent
d. Representation of a stimulus by a pattern of firing of all the neurons
c. Representation of a stimulus by a pattern of firing of only a small group of neurons, with the majority of neurons remaining silent
Which area of the brain is involved in speech production?
a. Broca’s area
b. Temporal lobe
c. Frontal lobe
d. Wernicke’s area
a. Broca’s area
Bonus (50pts): What is the function of Wernicke's area?
Who created the 4-arm rat maze that discovered the idea of cognitive maps?
a. Watson
b. Wundt
c. Tolman
d. Chompsky
c. Tolman
Jessie babysat a young girl over the weekend. The girl talked about her favorite history class project, the wax museum, explaining how she and her friends had to dress up as previous presidents and present a speech about the lives of those presidents. She remembered her friend’s presentation about Abraham Lincoln. She mentioned how her friend wore a top hat and suit, and she mentioned how she remembered that Abraham Lincoln was 6 ft 4 ins and married Mary Todd! What types of long term memory are in play here?
a. Episodic
b. Semantic
c. Procedural
d. A and c
e. A and b
f. All of the above
e. A and b
Eye movement and latency are considered examples of measurements of reaction time: T or F?
True
What is the concept associated with the idea that “specific functions are served by specific areas of the brain?”
a. Inverse projection problem
b. Paradigm shift
c. Functional connectivity
d. Localization of function
d. Localization of function
What brain region is involved in the coordination of information received from all the senses?
a. Parietal lobe
b. Prefrontal cortex
c. Frontal lobe
d. Cerebellum
c. Frontal lobe
Who discovered the filtration component of auditory attention?
a. Cherry
b. Broadbent
c. Atkison and Shiffrin
d. Tulving
a. Cherry
Claire is completing a Captcha to create a Facebook account. She is presented with a vintage couch with green strips on it 4 times: from the front view, the side view, above, view and front view with the couch in a vertical orientation: what type of phenomenon was the Captcha trying to test?
a. Gestalt principles
b. Occlusion problem
c. Viewpoint invariance
d. Inverse project problem
c. Viewpoint invariance
Cajal used Golgi staining to support the theory of the nerve net: T or F?
False
Bonus (50pts): Who used Golgi staining?
According to the principle of neural representation, what is the system that creates a representation of the world?
a. Neuron doctrine
b. The mind
c. Three-stage memory model
d. Default mode network
b. The mind
Teresa is biking back home from school. She passes through Aggie Park where she can see the colors of the sunset from behind Kyle field to her right and to her left she sees spaced out trees, a pond with ducks, and an ice cream shop. Which brain region would be responding the most in this scenario?
a. Fusiform face area
b. Default mode network
c. Parahippocampal place area (PPA)
d. hippocampus
c. Parahippocampal place area (PPA)
What was Donder’s study trying to conclude?
a. The time it took to forget information
b. The hippocampal involvement in representation of spaces
c. The time it took to make a decision
d. Forming the model of how input becomes a long-term memory
c. The time it took to make a decision
Tom is an itty-bitty fishie going to Fish Camp. When he arrives at the Reed parking lot to go on the buses, he sees a big crowd of people but separated into chaotic clumps. A leader comes up to him and gives him his aqua lanyard and informational, in which he was told to find his color and report to the leader there. He looks again at the crowd of people, and he clearly sees other fishes with aqua lanyards walking toward the middle of the crowd. He follows and as he takes in the scene, he realizes that he’s been placed in the aqua group because next to their group were other fishes wearing red to the left of them and purple to the right of them. He knew he was in the right place: what principle is at play here?
a. Principle of Similarity
b. Principle of Good Continuation
c. Principle of Simplicity
d. Principle of Proximity
a. Principle of Similarity