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QCAA Psych Unit 3 Revision
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1
Jeremy was in the ocean last Saturday and saw a shark in the water. He panicked and swam as fast as he could to shore.
Somatic NS
Central NS
Sympathetic NS
Parasympathetic NS
2
the organisation and interpretation of sensory information is called
perception
transmission
intelligence
sensation
3
When Fido the dog sits, he gets a treat. Identify which learning theory was most likely used to establish this behaviour
Classical Conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observational learning
Social learning theory
4
What best describes iconic memory
visual and long-term
auditory and short term
first and earliest memory
photographic and brief
5
To remember someone's name and use the memory technique of repeating it over, you would be using _ to keep the name in _
Selective attention; Sensory Memory
Mnemonics; LTM
Maintenance rehearsal; STM
Elaborative rehearsal; STM
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What is the worst way to form long term memories?
Cramming before an exam
Having a strong emotional experience to a memory
Elaborative rehearsal
Spaced practice
7
Controls hearing, and language comprehension
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Frontal lobe
Occiptical Lobe
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The name of the specialised gap between 2 neurons
axon
dendrites
synapse
soma
9
A memory of kindergarten that returns when you are back in that classroom is an example of what type of memory?
context-dependent
iconic
echoic
state-dependent
10
Which part of the working memory model has a 'supervisory role'?
central executive
episodic buffer
visuospatial sketchpad
phonological loop
11
Deregowski believes that the non-Westerners inability to perceive depth in pictures is due to
a lack of a theory of mind
a lack of learning
a lack of innate ability
a lack of intelligence
12
Irregular specks that drift around in your field of vision
Cataracts
Glaucoma
Floaters
Colour blindness
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What part of the eye allows us to see color?
iris
cones
rods
eyeball
14
Who believes that human learning is done selectively by observing and instilling into memory the behavior of others?
Albert Bandura
Jean Piaget
Lawrence Kohlberg
B.F. Skinner
15
A lion in a circus learns to stand up on a chair and jump through a hoop to receive a food treat.
Classical Conditioning
Observational Learning
Operant Conditioning
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Which is not believed to influence our perceptual set
emotion
genes
culture
motivation
17
Which of the following is an unconditioned response?
Clapping after a thrilling concert performance
sweating in hot weather
running through a maze to get a food reward
jumping rope
18
The part of the brain that coordinates movement and balance
Amygdala
Cerebellum
Cerebrum
Pre-frontal cortex
19
There are 4 steps in observational learning. Choose the correct order for the steps involved.
attention, retention, reproduction, motivation
attention, reproduction, retention, motivation
motivation, attention, retention, reproduction
retention, reproduction, motivation, attention
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Seems to be involved in procedural memory, motor learning, and classical conditioning or conditioned responses
pre-frontal cortex
hippocampus
amygdala
cerebellum
21
You eat a new food which makes you sick because of the flu. You develop a dislike for the food and feel nausea near it
Observational learning
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
22
Which of the following best characterises Parkinson’s disease?
immune system breakdown
deterioration in the myelin sheath
memory loss
deterioration of dopamine-releasing neurons
23
Any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior is called:
reinforcement
punishment
conditioned stimulus
unconditioned stimulus
24
What part of your eye sends the messages to and from your brain?
Retina
Iris
Optic Nerve
Vitreous Humor
25
What is acetylcholine involved in?
thought, feeling, motivation, behaviour, reward and pleasure
musle contractions, learning, memory and REM sleep
sleep, mood/emotion
fight or flight response
26
A reversible figure, such as the vase/face figure, makes use of which principle of perception?
similarity
figure-ground relationship
closure
proximity
27
Part of the peripheral that controls conscious activities
Autonomic
Somatic
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
28
The hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex are involved in
Emotion
Language
Visual perception
Voluntary movement
29
Hudson's pictures of hunting scenes are usually taken as evidence that
all of the above
members of non-western cultures are less intelligent
both children and adults from African tribes cannot percieve depth
interpreting pictures is an inborn ability
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Using two eyes for pictoral depth is called a
linear perspective
connectedness
monocular cue
binocular cue
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Mediates emotional response and is involved in memory processing
Cerebellum
Hypothalamus
Limbic system
Thalamus
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What are most axons coated with?
myelin
dendrites
GABA
adrenalin
33
What is it called when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information?
proactive interference
retrieval failure
Retroactive interference
Retention
34
The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as
about seven items
a single item
30 items per year
limitless
35
Which of the following is an example of observational learning?
a piano student becomes proficient at a new piece of music
A littler girl is punished for grabbing her sister's hair
students have their recess taken away until they can be quiet
young women wear clothes styled like those of a popular idol
36
A person who presents speech that makes sense, but the person has difficulty speaking
Neglect Syndrom
Broca's Aphasia
Wernicke's Aphasia
Visual Agnosia
37
The structures of the basal ganglia are involved in
Visual perception
Language
Emotion
Voluntary Movement
38
With the levels of processing model, deep processing occurs in the form of ______________, which involves building the s
echoic processing
attentional processing
iconic processing
semantic processing
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Using the the acronym Roy G. Biv to studying the colors of the rainbow. This is a good example of
Mnemonic
SQ4R
Encoding
Maintenance rehearsal
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Approximately 70% average for the MCQ of the exam and less than 50% average for the SA section is evidence that
recognition is a more sensitive measure of retention than recall
recall is a more sensitive measure of retention than recognition
relearning is the most sensitive measure of retention
the reconstructive nature of memory