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- 1What is sound caused by?A change in air pressure
- 2What does amplitude (dB) measure?Loudness
- 3What does frequency (Hz) measure?Pitch
- 4Do high frequency sounds have more or less waves in a cycle?More
- 5What is the human hearing range for pitch?20 - 20000 Hz
- 6What is our typical vocal range for pitch?80 - 1100 Hz
- 7What is the lowest frequency component of a complex sound called?The fundamental
- 8In a harmonic sound, what would be the next integer for a fundamental of 440 Hz?880 Hz
- 9Which part of the ear increases sound amplitude and helps determine the direction from where a sound is coming?The pinna
- 10Which part of the ear provides protection and increases sound amplitude?The external auditory canal
- 11Which part of the ear vibrates in response to sound waves and moves bones in the middle ear?The eardrum
- 12What do the ossicles do?Transmit the vibration of the eardrum (with some amplification) into the cochlea through lever actions and provide protection against high amplitude sounds
- 13Which mechanisms convert vibrations into neural signals?Hair cells
- 14Which tasks cannot be performed without the auditory cortex present?Discriminating the pattern of several tones
Discriminating the duration of sounds
Localising sounds in space - 15What happens when auditory nerves are stimulated at different cochlea locations?Sounds are perceived in a different pitch
- 16How are sounds with a missing fundamental perceived?The missing fundamental is "filled in" and perceived as it would be if the fundamental was there
- 17Where does pitch perception start to be encoded?In the structures beyond the cochlear nucleus
- 18What is the human auditory range for loudness?0 - 120 dB
- 19What is the onset difference?The difference of time in which the sound reaches each ear
- 20What is the phase difference?The difference between the phase that the sound is in when it reaches each ear
- 21Is the phase difference better at detecting the location of low or high frequency sounds?Low
- 22Is the interaural intensity difference better at detecting the location of low or high frequency sounds?High
- 23Do humans perceive the location of sounds better from horizontal or vertical directions?Horizontal
- 24What is the cone of confusion?The theoretical cone the surrounds the space where a sound is perceived to have come from - it is difficult to decipher exactly where the sound comes from within that space.
- 25What are the two cues for auditory distance perception?Loudness and the energy ratio of direct and reverberant sound
- 26Is auditory distance perception usually underestimated or overestimated by humans?Underestimated
- 27What is the McGurk Effect?When your visual perception overrides your auditory perception and you hear what your eyes tell you you should hear
- 28What is sound-induced flash illusion?Where two flashes are perceived but only one is presented when two beeps are presented rather than one
- 29What is change blindness?The inability to notice salient changes in a visual scene
- 30Are we more likely to detect semantic or non-semantic changes in visual stimuli?Semantic
- 31What are the two types of representations formed when perceiving a visual scene?The meaning of the scene and the surface properties of the scene
- 32What is the filter theory?That sensory information has to pass through some bottleneck and only some of the sensory information is selected for further processing
- 33What is the attenuation theory?Salience of unattended stimuli is reduced, but they are not filtered out entirely
- 34Which is the most well-supported theory of attentional selection?The attenuation theory
- 35What is feature integration theory?The theory that people must focus attention on a stimulus before they can synthesize its features into a pattern
- 36Does IQ better measure innate endowment or acquired ability?Innate endowment
- 37What is crystalised intelligence?Acquired knowledge
- 38What is fluid intelligence?Ability to reason or solve problems
- 39What is factor analysis?A statistical method that tries to find a set of factors that will account for performance across a range of tests
- 40What are the three factors of intelligence?Reasoning, verbal and spatial
- 41What are people with high verbal ability able to do more quickly than those with low verbal ability?Retrieve the meaning of words and have large working memory for verbal information
- 42What is cognitive psychology?The science of how the mind is organised to produce intelligent thought and how the human mind is realised in the brain.
- 43What are the characteristics of a patient with Williams Syndrome?- difficulty in processing visuospatial information, however can learn repeated routes as normal
- Brain structures that are critical for the response-based system are not affected - 44What does nativism say about where knowledge comes from?Knowledge is innate
- 45What does empiricism say about where knowledge comes from?Knowledge is acquired through experience
- 46How does structuralism study the human mind?By analysing the mind into primitive components
- 47How does functionalism study the human mind?By understanding what the mind does in response to stimuli
- 48How does behaviourism study the human mind?By studying input-output association
- 49According to the Sternberg Paradigm, how does response time vary according to how many stimulus are presented?Systematically, with each additional stimulus taking a further 38ms to perceive
- 50Which disciplines does cognitive science integrate research efforts from?Psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics and computer science
- 51What is parsing?The process by which words in a message are transformed into a mental representation of the combined meaning of the words
- 52What are constituents (in the context of parsing)?Subpatterns that correspond to basic phrases, or units, in a sentence's structure
- 53How are sentences processed?The meaning is processed one phrase at a time and a phrase is only accessed while processing its meaning
- 54What is the principal of minimal attachment?One interprets a sentence in a way that causes minimal complication of its phrase structure
- 55Which two syntactic cues are used to interpret a sentence?Word order and inflectional structure
- 56What is interactive processing?Where syntactic and semantic cues are simultaneously processed
- 57What is utilization?A stage of language comprehension in which people use the meaning of a sentence to arrive at a deeper understanding of the sentence
- 58What are backward inferences?Inferences in sentence comprehension that connect the sentence to prior context
- 59What are forward inferences?Inferences in sentence comprehension that anticipate things not yet asserted
- 60Do forward or backward inferences take longer to comprehend?Forward
- 61Which question are people more likely to answer 'yes' to? Did you see a broken headlight? OR Did you see the broken headlight?Did you see THE broken headlight
- 62How are syntactic cues used to interpret pronouns?It is assumed that the names and pronouns that refer to each other appear in sequential order
- 63How are semantic cues used to interpret pronouns?The meaning of the sentence is used to interpret who is being referred to
- 64Do negative sentences take more or less time to process?More
- 65What did Clarke and Chase hypothesize that the three processes involved in processing negative sentences are?T: processing of base supposition
M: processing of mismatch between supposition and picture
N: processing of negation - 66What are the types of relations in text processing?Response, specific, explanation, evidence, sequence, cause, goal, collection.
- 67What is the effect of textual material on memory?Memory is sensitive to the hierarchical and causal structure of that text and tends to be better when people attend to that structure
- 68What is a bridging inference?Where two propositions that are further apart in the text need to be related to each other - longer processing time
- 69How long does sensory memory last?Less than 1 second
- 70How long do short term (or working) memories last?1 - 10 seconds
- 71How long do long term memories last?More than 10 seconds
- 72What is the function of sensory memory?Registers information about the environment and holds it for a very brief period of time
- 73How many letters can one recall when presented with 12 numbers for 50 ms?3 - 6
- 74What effect does delay have on the ability to recall letters that have been presented for 50 ms?Less letters are able to be recalled
- 75What is the masking effect?When visual or auditory white noise decreases performance when presented in the same sensory modality
- 76What is iconic memory and how long does it last?Visual sensory memory, lasts around 1 second
- 77What is echoic memory and how long does it last?Auditory sensory memory, lasts around 8 seconds
- 78What is Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) theory on short-term memory?Proposed that as information rehearsed its limited-capacity short-term memory, it is deposited in long-term memory
- 79How many items can short-term memory process at a timeAround 7
- 80What issues does damage to the medial-temporal lobe cause?Severe impairment to long-term memory but no issue with short-term memory
- 81What is the episodic buffer in Baddeley's theory of working memory?A temporary holding system for the visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop and long-term memory
- 82What does the central executive do in working memory?Processes information
- 83What is declarative memory?Memory for facts and events that you can explicitly remember
- 84What is non-declarative memory?Memories that you cannot explicitly retrieve (e.g. how to ride a bike)
- 85What is the most effective way to encode memory?To process it in a deep and meaningful manner
- 86True or false: intention to learn has more of an impact than method of processingFalse - intention to learn does not impact recall ability
- 87What happens when the temporal lobe is stimulated with electric impulses?People are able to recall memories which they normally are not able to
- 88True or false: Some evidence can be found of the existence of memories which are unable to be recalledTrue
- 89True or false: The exact recall of a passage is more difficult when there is no delayFalse
- 90What is plausible recall?Where the recall is not exactly correct but is a plausible explanation of events
- 91What is source confusion?Where people confuse what they actually observed about an incident with what they learned from other sources
- 92What is procedural memory?The implicit knowledge about how to perform tasks
- 93Are amnesic patients better at recalling words or completing a word that has previously been learned?Completing a word that has previously been learned
- 94What is priming?An enhancement of the processing of a stimulus as a function of prior exposure - takes place without conscious awareness
- 95What are the features of problem solving?Goal directedness and sub-goal decomposition
- 96What is a problem space?An abstrace space that represents all of the possible states of the problem
- 97What are problem states?A representation of the problem in some degree of solution
- 98What is an operator?An action that will transform the problem state into another problem state
- 99What are the 3 ways to acquire new operators?Instruction, discovery and analogy
- 100Are non-human primates able to imitate behaviour in order to problem solve?Yes - rhesus monkeys imitating peer - order of picture selection
- 101What are the 3 criteria for selecting operators?1. Backup avoidance
2. Difference reduction
3. Means-ends analysis - 102What is backup avoidance?The tendency to avoid operators that take one back to a state already visited
- 103What is difference reduction?The tendency to select operators that eliminate a difference between the current state and the goal state
- 104What is a difficulty with difference reduction?People tend to experience difficulty in solving a problem at points where the correct solution involves increasing the differences between the current state and the goal state.
- 105What is means-ends analysis?Creates a new subgoal to enable an operator to apply - identifies the biggest difference between the current state and the goal state and try to eliminate it first.
- 106What issues would patients with prefrontal damage have with solving the Tower of Hanoi problem?Difficulty in making backwards moves as they cannot maintain the goal in working memory very well
- 107What is an issue with inappropriate problem representation?It prevents us from using an appropriate analogy
- 108What is functional fixedness?The tendency to represent objects as serving conventional problem-solving functions and thus failing to see that they can serve novel functions
- 109What are set effects?The biasing of a solution to a problem as a result of past experiences solving that type of problem
- 110What are incubation effects?The phenomenon that sometimes solutions to a particular problem come easier after a period of time in which one has ignored trying to solve the problem - occur because people forget inappropriate ways of solving the problem
- 111What are insight problems?Where people fail to see that they are close to the solution
- 112What is Fechner's law?If a Weber fraction is constant for a given stimulus dimension, then the mind might use the Weber fraction as a unit for perceiving that stimulus dimension - asserts that our psychological experience of the intensity of a stimulus tends to change less quickly than the actual change in stimulus intensity
- 113What is the method of constant stimuli?Where a set of stimuli are constructed with magnitudes ranging from above to below the presumed threshold value and stimuli are presented a number of times in random order - participant responds whether they head them or not and plot the proportion of detections at each magnitude
- 114What is the threshold taken to be in the method of constant stimuli?The magnitude at which the stimulus is detected 50% of the time
- 115What are the advantages of the method of constant stimuli?Allows the shape of the psychometric function to be established and provides an accurate estimate of the threshold
- 116What are the disadvantages of the method of constant stimuli?- Requires pre-testing to accurately estimate the threshold
- Wastes a lot of trials which lie far from the threshold (time-consuming)
- It is difficult to measure changes in threshold over brief time periods - 117What is the method of limits?A method which uses ascending and descending series of trials - stimulus intensity increased/decreased in small steps until participants can no longer detect, then reversed to the lowest/highest intensity
- 118How is the threshold measures in the method of limits?The threshold is the average of the limits from each of the ascending and descending runs
- 119What are the advantages of the method of limits?- More efficient than the method of constant stimuli
- Still reasonably accurate in determining the threshold - 120What are the disadvantages of the method of limits?- Many trials still wasted
- Participate may habituate and thus overshoot the threshold
- The overall shape of the psychometric function cannot be derived - 121What is the staircase procedure?A linked series of ascending and descending runs with each successive run being based on the outcome of the preceding run - Stimulus presented in ascending or descending order, when stimulus is not detected - reverse one step
- 122How is the threshold measured in the staircase procedure?The average of the intensities where stimulus not detected
- 123What are the advantages of the staircase procedure?- Even more efficient than the method of limits
- Can be modified in a number of ways to overcome limitations - 124What are the disadvantages of the staircase procedure?- Estimation of the threshold tends to require more complex calculations, making it less intuitive
- 125How can habituation be addressed in the staircase procedure?By running multiple simultaneous trials
- 126What is considered a false alarm in signal detection?Where no signal is present, but one is detecting
- 127What is a miss in signal detection?When a signal is present but not detected
- 128What does d-prime measure?Sensitivity to signal detection
- 129What is perception?Awareness of the elements of the environment through physical sensation
- 130Ultraviolet and infrared light - which has short and which has long wavelengths?Ultraviolet = short
Infrared = long - 131Would light waves with great amplitude appear as a bright or dim light?Bright
- 132What is the function of the cornea?To protect other structures in the eye
- 133What is accommodation (in vision)?Where the ciliary muscles control the shape of the lens to accommodate near or far targets
- 134Where are the rods and cones?In the retina (back of the eye)
- 135Where is visual information most sharply focused?The fovea
- 136Describe rods- Long, thin and blunt
- Highly sensitive to light, not colour
- primarily for peripheral and night vision - 137Describe cones- Short, thick and pointed
- Detect colour
- For colour vision and visual acuity - 138Do more rods or cones synapse with each ganglion cell?Rods
- 139Which hemisphere is information from the right visual field processed in?Left hemisphere
- 140What are the two major neural pathways to the brain?- Retina --> LGN --> V1 (primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe)
- Retina --> superior colliculus (SC) (and pulvinar nucleus) - 141What function does the LGN --> V1 Pathway serve?Conscious aspects of vision (e.g. object recognition)
- 142What is the function of the SC pathway?Unconscious visual functions (e.g. object localisation)
- 143How would a person with damage to the LGN-V1 pathway react to a visual stimulus?They would be able to point to the stimulus but would not be able to see it
- 144What does an on-off cell detect in the visual field?A dark spot in an illuminated area - off-on cell detects the opposite
- 145What would an agnosia patient's response be if you asked them to identify a combination lock?Might think it is a telephone - can identify individual components of the object but cannot put them together
- 146What information does the ventral pathway process?Information about object appearance and identity - important for object perception
- 147What information does the dorsal pathway process?Spatial information about objects - important for guiding action
- 148Which lobe does the ventral pathway transmit information to?Temporal lobe
- 149Which lobe does the dorsal pathway transmit information to?The parietal lobe
- 150If a patient with agnosia was given a card to put into a slot, would the patient have more trouble putting the card in the slot (at any angle) or rotating the card (away from the slot) the match the orientation of the slot?Rotating the card
- 151What is optic ataxia?Intact object recognition but inability to use visual information to guide action
- 152Where are lesions located in patients with optic ataxia?Dorsal pathway
- 153What are the 4 Gestalt principles?Similarity, closure, good continuation and proximity
- 154What is the template-matching model?Where the sensory input is matched to a "template" stored in the brain
- 155What is feature analysis?Where a visual pattern is perceived as a combination of elemental features
- 156What is Selfridge's Pandemonium Model?Image demon processes signal, feature demons process specific features (e.g. vertical lines), cognitive demons respond to certain combinations features, and decision demon selects most accurate combination
- 157What is recognition-by-component theory?An object is first segmented into a set of basic sub-objects (called geons) and then recognised as a pattern composed of geons
- 158Is it more difficult to detect and object presented for a short amount of time where one component is missing or where separate segments of the object are deleted?Where separate segments are deleted
- 159What is the "grandmother cell" hypothesisThat we have certain cells that recognise certain faces
- 160What are the weaknesses of the grandmother cell hypothesis?- If the neuron recognising a certain face is lost, our ability to recognise that face would also be lost
- perception of novel objects cannot be explained well
- Flexibility of object recognition cannot be explained well - 161Is there any support for the grandmother cell theory?Yes - but it is likely that object recognition results from firing of an ensemble of cells
- 162What is the word-superiority effect?Superior recognition of letters in a word context than alone - indicates top-down influence on pattern recognition
- 163What is the phoneme-restoration effect?Where a tone placed over part of a word - word is still able to be made out
- 164What are the four areas where human irrationality is often found?- Reasoning about conditionals
- Reasoning about quantifiers
- Reasoning about probabilities
- Decision making - 165What type of reasoning is used where conclusions can be determined to follow with certainty from the premises?Deductive reasoning
- 166What is a conditional statement?If an antecedent is true, then a consequent must be true
- 167What does the Wason selection task show?That when presented with neutral material, people have particular difficulty in recognising the importance of exploring the negation of the consequent
- 168What is the permission schema?The performance on a task such as the Wason selection task can be improved when the material has meaningful content
- 169Why do we perform so poorly on the original Wason selection task?People tend to select cards that will be informative under a probabilistic model, not a strict logical model
- 170In a car park, where every car that has a broken head light also has a broken tail light, would it be better to adopt a probabilistic or logical model?Probabilistic - e.g., checking a car with a broken headlight and car with a broken tail light, we can make a reasonable inference that the statement is correct - it would be impractical to check every car with intact tail lights to disprove the statement
- 171What is prior probability?The probability that a hypothesis is true before consideration of the evidence
- 172What is posterior probability?The probability that a hypothesis is true after consideration of the evidence
- 173What needs to be taken into account to calculate posterior probability?- Prior probability (base rate)
- Evidence
- Reliability of evidence - 174What is base-rate neglect?Where people fail to take into account the base rate when making probability judgments
- 175If a test for a certain cancer is 95% accurate, and the chances of having this cancer is 1 in 10,000, what chances would a person who tested positive to the test believe they have of having the cancer?95% (However, they fail to take into account that only 1 in 10,000 people have the cancer - meaning the chances of having the cancer with a positive result is only 0.19%)
- 176Why would participants be more likely to say that there are more words in the English language starting with K than there are with K as the third letter?Because it is easier to think of words that start with K - we are biased in our estimates when we must rely on factors such as memory and similarity judgments
- 177What is subjective utility in decision making?The subjective value that someone places on something - i.e. chance of loss/gain
- 178What are framing effects in decision making?The tendency to make difference choices among the same alternatives, depending on the statement of the alternatives - e.g. getting a $5 discount off a $15 item seems larger than getting a $5 discount off a $125 item
- 179When do framing effects occur?When there is no clear basis for choice - in such situations, we tend to make a decision not on the basis of what is actually the best but on which decision we are better able to justify
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