Exam 2: The Cognitive Science Approach

If I can name objects, but not faces; and somebody else can name objects and faces, this is sufficient to illustrate a double-dissociation.

Your friend tells you he participated in a computerized experiment and had to respond to stimuli flashed on the screen. He was most likely participating in a(n) ________ experiment.

What are the two major assumptions of the strict information-processing approach?

According to Kolb & Wishaw (1996), approximately how many cells are engaged in information processing in the typical human brain?

Sam is participating in an experiment in which electrodes are attached to his head. It is probably a PET experiment.

"The act of taking in information and converting it to a usable mental form": ________.

It has been argued that observing people typing can reveal parallel processing.

In cognition, STM is a central component of:

Information processing was the dominant approach in cognitive psychology until the mid 1970s.

The cell that is specialized for receiving and transmitting a neural impulse.

In response to a difficult question, the participant is likely to respond more slowly than if an easy question had been asked. In terms of the overall response times, the difficult question would yield:

Farah is participating in an experiment in which a musical passage is presented to her left ear. The melody is most likely being processed first in Farah's:

Functional imaging techniques are useful because:

The Atkinson & Shiffrin model provides a useful summary of overall cognitive function. What does a process model add to the description (i.e., what do we gain by using a process model)?

For the majority of people, language ability is specialized in the left hemisphere.

A synapse is:

(i) Explain the concept of hemispheric specialization. (ii) Name two abilities for each hemisphere. (iii) What is the corpus callosum?

Henri is participating in a lexical decision task. Which of the following would facilitate his performance?

Which of the following is an assumption of a strict information-processing approach?

Which of the following is found at the receiving end of neurons?