Sensation + Perception
Derrell wakes up to the most delicious-smelling breakfast. He realizes from the smell that his parents made bacon, eggs, and pancakes for breakfast. What process is used when Derrell initially smells the breakfast?
Sensation
While playing a video game, you are so intently focused on spotting a specific type of "bad guy" that you miss another threat to your character and end up losing the game. What are you exhibiting?
Billy is studying for the upcoming Psych exam by reading definitions. What memory process is Billy using?
Encoding. Specifically, shallow encoding.
Grunnk hates Pompko, but Toadstool is indifferent. Who is most susceptible to the framing of Pompko?
Toadstool
When you are sitting in the Psychology lecture, the kid next to you is bouncing his leg really aggressively. The sound of his shoe hitting his bag is really annoying you. After a while, you realize that you don’t really hear the sound of his shoe hitting his bag anymore but he is still bouncing his leg. What does this show?
Sensory adaptation
A thief steals an expensive ball of solid gold held in a high-security jewelry store. The thief replaces the ball of gold with golden tinfoil, and security fails to notice. What is the security guard exhibiting?
Change blindness
Stacy is studying for the upcoming psychology exam by creating concept maps, relating terms to her everyday life, and talking about the material with a friend. What memory process is Stacy using?
Encoding. Specifically, deep encoding or self-referential encoding.
Freight Train learned Spanish as a second language when they were 2 years old. Plane learned Spanish when they were 33 years old. Which hemisphere is more active in Freight Train during grammatical processing? What about Plane?
Left hemisphere for Freight Train, Right hemisphere for Plane.
One person has trouble seeing in the dark while another person has trouble seeing colors. What is being affected in each person?
Cones (first person) and Rods (second person)
What is a possible mechanism involved in both sleepwalking and sleep paralysis?
Paralysis (or lack thereof) of the body during REM sleep.
You are outside on a dark and rainy night. Suddenly, your surroundings are lit up by a flash of lightning. What memory is involved in recalling the lit-up surroundings?
Iconic memory
Alex is an extremely intelligent person. They are skilled in basically everything, with a couple exceptions: they seem to struggle with geometry and grammar. How would you describe Alex in terms of the 3-level hierarchy of intelligence?
High general factor, high group factor, mostly high specific factors with some exceptions.
Sensation is a ____ process, while perception is a ____ process.
Bottom-up, top-down
One of the most highly addictive types of psychoactive drugs.
Narcotics or Stimulants
Robby knows that when he was 6 years old, he was still being potty-trained. Robby also knows that when Mozart was 6, he was writing his first compositions and playing piano proficiently. What types of memory are involved in each of the above facts that Robby knows?
Episodic (personal) and semantic (facts)
Gladis learned English as a baby by learning the probability that a word would refer to a certain object. What two language theories support this? Bonus: What process underlies the learning of objects?
Cognitive and Connectionist. Bonus: Conceptualization, AKA discrimination and generalization of concepts
When identifying an object, what is the order in which it travels through the brain?
Optic nerve -> optic chiasm ->lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) -> visual cortex -> visual association cortex
A somnambulist (sleepwalker) and someone with REM behavior disorder (RBD) walk into a bar. What are they doing in their dreams?
We don't know for the sleepwalker, but the person with RBD is walking in their dream.
You are asked to remember a list of words after they are spoken to you. Which words in the list are you most likely to remember? Why?
The words near the beginning and the end of the list. Primacy effect and recency effect.
Give a superordinate, basic, subordinate, and prototype for the category "professor".
Superordinate = faculty
Basic = professor
Subordinate = psychology professor (or other type)
Prototype = some old person (maybe an old white guy depending on your stereotypes)