Exam 1: The Science of the Mind

Dr. Mnemonic conducted a study in which neural activity was measured (with fMRI) while participants were presented with either digits or abstract images to memorize. He found that the left temporal lobe was active when the digits were presented, and the right parietal lobe was active for the abstract images. Interpret these results in terms of the multicomponent model. Does it support this model or refute it? Why?

Within the working-memory system, mental "assistants" are available to allow the storage of information soon to be needed but not currently in use. A crucial "scratch pad" is the

The philosopher Immanuel Kant based many of his arguments on transcendental inferences. A commonplace example of such an inference is a

Cognitive processes are NOT necessary for which daily activity?

Which of the following statements is LEAST likely to apply to patient H.M.?

Which of the following kinds of evidence is least likely to be used in cognitive psychology?

Historically, the movement known as behaviorism was encouraged by scholars' concerns regarding

Subvocalization is also known as

The process of taking observable information and inferring a cause is known as

Consider the sentence, "Sam, tired from hours of reading and working on his term paper, fell into bed at last." When you reach the sentence's 13th word ("fell"), you need to remember how the sentence began; otherwise, you won't know who fell into bed. The memory used for this task is called

Modern psychology turned away from behaviorism in its classic form because

A participant is asked to look within him- or herself and report on his or her own mental processes. This method is called

One important difference between classical behaviorism and cognitive psychology is that cognitive psychology

The multicomponent model of working memory shows that

Compare and contrast the introspection, behaviorist, and cognitive approaches to studying mental activities. Which approach do you find most compelling, and why?

An elderly woman has suffered a stroke in her left temporal lobe and consequently can no longer name common nouns. This provides evidence that language is located in the left hemisphere for most people. What kind of evidence is this?

Which of the following statements about introspection is NOT true?

Bert has sustained damage to a part of his left temporal lobe, which is important for language production. Which of the following problems would we expect to see if Bert were given a WM test?

The task of saying, "tah, tah, tah," while taking a span test to assess working memory is known as

Evidence from neuroimaging studies suggests that subvocalization is MOST closely related to