Cognitive Practice Quiz # 2
*Only check one box per question*

1) Agnosia is a problem with
A) the visual pathway.
B) speech.
C) recognition and identification.
D) the primary motor cortex.

2) Gestalt psychology can be summed up as:
A) The unconscious controls the conscious.
B) The whole is more than the sum of the parts.
C) Brain chemicals determine cognition.
D) Object recognition is determined by the physical stimuli present.

3) Which of the following is an example of an ambiguous figure?
A) An O amongst Qs
B) A Blue X amongst Red Xs
C) Necker Cube
D) Feature absence search

4) What is parsing?
A) Breaking a figure down into its component parts.
B) Looking at a figure more than one way (eg. profiles/vase)
C) Finding an object amongst other objects
D) Visual Search

5) Which of the following is not part of how the perceptual system works?
A) Parsing
B) Choosing the simplest explanation of the stimulus
C) Avoid interpretations that involve coincidence
D) Avoiding interpretations that rely on experience

6) The idea that experience influences perception is called what?
A) Occlusion
B) Top Down Effect
C) Visual Search
D) Experiential Resource effect

7) Which of the following results in a parallel popout search?
A) Feature Presence Detection
B) Feature Absence Detection
C) Feature Conjunction Detection
D) Both answers B and C

8) Which of the following results in a serial search?
A) Feature Presence Detection
B) Feature Absence Detection
C) Feature Conjunction Detection
D) Both answers B and C

9) What is prosopagnosia?
A) A problem recognizing animals
B) A problem recognizing faces
C) A problem recognizing objects
D) Both answers B and C

10) Which is an example of an episode of echoic memory?
A) When you see a cicle while spinning a flashlight on the wall (instead of individual points of light).
B) When you use a backward mask during a tachistoscopic presentation.
C) When the final word in a list is remembered better than the word before it after being read aloud, but not when read silently.
D) When the first word in a list is remembered better than the word that follows it after being read aloud, but not when read silently.

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