Testbank answers - Chapter 1

Testbank answers - Chapter 1

• Which cognitive task is designed to tap inhibitory processes and asks participants to name

the colour in which colour names are presented?

• Stroop
• Anti-saccade
• Stop-signal
• Wisconsin colour sort
• ANT task

Answer: A

• Early versions of the information-processing approach assumed that all processing was:
• Parallel and bottom-up
• Serial and bottom-up
• Serial and top-down
• Serial and parallel
• Parallel and top-down

Answer: B

3. Parallel processing is most likely to occur when:

• People attempt a new task
• People lack the necessary skills to complete a task
• People attempt to process a task sequentially
• People are highly practised at a task
• All of these

Answer: D

• Which research field attempts to construct computer systems that produce intelligent

outcomes, but without necessarily any regard for whether the processes involved bear a resemblance to those used by humans?

• Artificial intelligence
• Computational cognitive science
• Cognitive neuropsychology
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Physiological psychology

Answer: A

• Which neurologist produced a cytoarchitectonic map of the brain, with many of these

numbered regions corresponding to functionally distinct areas?(Cognitive Psychology A Student's Handbook, 8e Michael Eysenck) (Test Bank all Chapters) 1 / 4

• Weber
• Ebbinghaus
• Lashley
• Milner
• Brodmann

Answer: E

• The extent to which laboratory findings are applicable to everyday life is called:
• Individual differences
• Measurement reliability
• Ecological validity
• Hubristic albescence
• Sentience

Answer: C

• A processor in the cognitive system that functions in an independent/separate fashion is

termed a:

• Node
• Lexicon
• Unit
• Component
• Module

Answer: E

• The notion that parts of the processing system can be impaired by brain damage, but parts

cannot be added, forms the basis of which cognitive neuropsychology assumption?

• Domain specificity
• Subtractivity
• Additivity
• Anatomical interdependence
• Uniformity

Answer: B

• If one patient performs well on task A, but poorly on task B, and another performs poorly on

task A, but well on task B, we say that we have a(n):

• Trifecta
• Association
• Deviant association
• Syndrome
• Double dissociation

Answer: E

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10. A group of symptoms or impairments commonly found together is known as a:

• Lesion
• Syndrome
• Cohort
• Distributed network
• Categorical misnomer

Answer: B

• In order to address the problem that brain-damaged patients do not represent a

homogeneous group, many cognitive neuropsychologists use:

• Group studies
• Diary studies
• Observation studies
• Case studies
• Double-blind studies

Answer: D

• What term is used to describe the exaggerated importance of neuroimaging to further our

understanding of cognition?

• Ghosting
• Neuroenchantment
• Aliasing fallacy
• Neuroimaging illusion
• Neural trap

Answer: B

• Technically, the signal measured in fMRI is known by which acronym?
• MEG
• ERP
• OXYN
• BOLD
• ACT-R

Answer: D

• Which computational modelling theory was developed by Anderson (1993)?
• E-Z Reader
• ACT-R
• TRACE model
• Working memory theory
• NETtalk

Answer: B 3 / 4

15. A unit in a connectionist network will produce an output when:

• The weighted sum of all inputs exceeds a threshold
• It receives any excitatory input
• It receives any inhibitory input
• It forms a connection with an inhibitory unit
• It is flooded by an antagonist

Answer: A

• The process whereby a neural network learns to associate an input pattern with an output

pattern, by comparing actual responses against correct ones, is called:

• Forward propagation
• Retroactive interference
• Backward propagation
• Proactive interference
• Retrospective learning

Answer: C

• Which of the following divides the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain?
• Lateral fissure
• Parieto-occipital sulcus
• Pre-occipital notch
• Corpus callosum
• Central sulcus

Answer: E

• Which term is used to describe structures that are located at the sides of the brain?
• Medial
• Lateral
• Dorsal
• Ventral
• Occipital

Answer: B

• The term that describes how precisely a technique can identify where in the brain a task is

being performed is:

• Temporal resolution
• Medial resolution
• Magnetic resolution
• Spatial resolution
• None of these
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