PSY230 Exam 3

Which brain structure plays an important role in metacognitive processes such as conflict and performance monitoring?

To incorrectly claim that San Diego is farther west than Reno, suggests that spatial information is sometimes stored in

Individual differences in the vividness of visual mental imagery appear to be related to the degree of neural activity

The idea that we categorize objects based on their similarity to specifically stored instances is known as _____ theory.

The amygdala enhances memory for emotional events. Which best describes the role of the amygdala in episodic memory?

Which of the following is NOT true of flashbulb memories?

During a coma you would expect to see increased activity in the frontal & parietal lobes.

The N400 ERP is largest in semantic priming studies under which condition?

Which approach considers emotions as discrete mental states?

Damage to which region of the brain most dramatically disrupts counscious experience?

Which approach to categorization claims that category membership is probabilistic and based on characteristic features?

In general, imagery has which of the following effects on memory?

Which of the following would be considered unconscious aspects of cognition?

Which of the following characteristics are thought to be important for the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC)?

According to the dual coding hypothesis, which of the following would be best remembered?

How is a percept different from a picture?

Which of the following is true of blindsight patients?

Which of the following types of task data provide evidence for the notion of typicality and prototypes?

A three legged dog creates a problem for which categorization approach?

Schema rarely influence memory for pictures.

There is a positive relationship between fMRI activitity and angle of rotation in mental rotation tasks.

There is a negative relationship between reaction time and the number of links in the sentence verification task.

Which approach to categorization includes the concept of graded membership?

Which level of categorization is learned first and the default for naming objects?

What is the term for visual cortex damage resulting in no visual awarness, but residual nonconscious visual processing?

Based on image-zooming experiments, which of the following would participants be slowest to identify in a mental image?

Emotion and mood are both types of affect.

Which number would likely be rated as more typical of an EVEN number?

The notion that mental representations share an underlying mechanism with perception/action come from studies using

To form a mental image of this picture it would be easiest to think of

There is a positive relationship between response time & distance scanned in mental maps during visual imagery studies.

Brain activity during REM sleep resembles that of Non-REM sleep.

Which is the most prototypical example of a bird?

Emotions represent graded experiences in valence and arousal is consistent with which of the following?

The subordinate category for this images is what?

The Family Resemblance theory contains which of the following?

The idea that we categorize objects based on their similarity to an abstract representation is known as _____ theory.

When using mental imagery to visualize faces, which brain area is most likely to be activated?

Visual and spatial imagery are thought to rely on the same underlying mechanisms.

Damage to the amygdala impairs the allocation of attention to emotionally salient stimuli.

Variants of which of the following tasks have been used to study affective/emotional attention?

Which brain region is most strongly associated with the clarity (or arousal) aspect of consciousness?

We classify a penguin as a bird faster than a robin as a bird because penguins are unusual examples that grab attention.

The term qualia is most strongly associated with which of the following?