Start Exam: Psychology 9.00 Exam 2 Spring 2009 by Prof.

Question: Experimental studies show that, for equal losses or gains, people are

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Risk averse for losses and gains

Risk taking for losses and gains

Risk averse for gains and risk taking for losses

Risk taking for gains and risk averse for losses

Question: We know that babbling in infants is related to language acquisition because:

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Right side of the mouth (controlled by left hemisphere) opens first during babbling

Deaf children babble with their hands, showing that babbling is not just a practice of vocal cords.

Bilingual babies exposed to Signed and Spoken languages babble with their hands and their mouth.

All of the above.

Question: Experimental evidence indicates that memorizing material with repeated study and test cycles, like learning foreign language vocabulary, is done both best and most efficiently if students

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study all materials repeatedly and are tested on all materials repeatedly

study all materials repeatedly and are tested only on materials that were missed in the prior test

only study materials missed on the prior test and are tested on all materials repeatedly

only study materials missed on the prior test and are tested only on materials missed in the prior test

Question: Perseveration in problem solving is found after injuries to the _______; failure to exhibit a galvanic skin response (GSR) to family members is found after injuries to the _____; a heightened tendency to make selections that have high immediate rewards but higher long-term losses is found after injuries to the

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dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; orbitofrontal cortex; orbitofrontal cortex

orbitofrontal cortex; orbitofrontal cortex; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; orbitofrontal cortex

dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; orbitofrontal cortex; dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Question: The field has once considered babies before age 12 months as pre-linguistiC) Current evidence suggests:

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Even though they don't speak yet, infants can fully understand language before 12 months.

Key universal linguistic milestones occur before 12 months.

Most infants can talk before 12 months.

Babies are indeed pre-linguistic before 12 months.

Question: Difficult and controversial court cases occur if an accusation is based on alleged memories for remote events when that memory has been repressed for many years and recovered during therapy. What memory phenomenon is most threatening to the accuracy of these sorts of memories?

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Encoding specificity

Proactive interference

Retroactive interference

Flashbulb memories

Question: In an experiment aimed to study short-term memory, subjects were asked to remember three-letter consonant trigrams (LCK) during retention intervals, during which they counted aloud, ranging from 0 to 18 seconds. On average, recall for the trigrams was virtually absent after 18 seconds. Subsequent studies revealed that the poor memory at 18 seconds was primarily due to

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Limited capacity of short-term memory

Serial position effect

Retroactive interference in long-term memory

Proactive interference in long-term memory

Question: A patient with a left-sided removal of the hippocampus would be impaired on which of the following:

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Short-term verbal memory

Long-term verbal memory

Short-term visuo-spatial memory

Long-term visuo-spatial memory

Question: Declarative memory depends on the _______; procedural memory depends on the _____; repetition priming depends on ______.

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Hippocampus; basal ganglia; neocortex

Basal ganglia; hippocampus; neocortex

Basal ganglia; neocortex; hippocampus

Hippocampus; neocortex; basal ganglia

Question: Peopleoftenthink that(a) 8x 7x 6x 5x 4x 3x 2x 1is amuchlarger number than 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7x 8; (b) itis more likely tohave a coin flipped six times come up with a mix of heads and tails than all heads; and (c) that a person is at greater risk in the US to die from a terrorist attack than a bathtub accident. These ways of thinking reflect, in order, what heuristics?

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(a) representativeness; (b) anchoring; (c) availability

(a) availability; (b) representativeness; (c) anchoring

(a) representativeness; (b) availability; (c) anchoring

(a) anchoring; (b) representativeness; (c) availability

Question: Patients with anterograde global amnesia typically have

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No retrograde amnesia at all

Retrograde amnesia for the most distant past parts of their lives

Temporally limited retrograde amnesia

Complete retrograde amnesia