6. It is possible to create the illusion of movement by alternately turning on and off two small lights in a darkened room. This apparent movement of the light between two positions is called the
phi phenomenon
photon propinquity effect
sine wave
epsilon factor
7. Unlike information from other sensory modalities, olfactory information is sent directly to the
hippocampus
cerebellum
limbic system
hypothalamus
8. Bottom up processing is to ___ as top down processing is to ______
context driven, data driven
data-driven, context driven
visual perception, pattern recognition
parallel processing, serial processing
9. If you wanted to make a white card look whiter you would place it
on a grey background
on any background illuminated by bright sunlight
on a very bright white background
next to another white card placed on a darker background
10. The suggestion that implicit and procedural memory are synonymous has been questioned on the basis of which of the following reasons:
implicit memories are generally reserved for events in childhood, procedural memories are for skills learnt in adulthood
procedural memories are for skills, implicit memories are for events
implicit memories are formed in deep processing, procedural memories formed in shallow processing
11. The type of memory that has the shortest duration is called ------ memory
sensory
short-term
episodic
perceptual
12. Following the case of Daubert vs Merrell Dow Pharamaceuticals Inc (1993), a new ruling in the US stated that ___ would be responsible for determining the relevance, validity and reliability of scientific evidence in court
psychologists
expert witnesses
judges
police
13. The Gestalt principle which states that elements that are positioned closely together as a group will be perceived as belonging together is the __________ principle
proximity
propinquity
continuity
closure
14. Which of the following is not a cognitive process involved in memory?
encoding
retrieval
percieving
storage
15. Which of the following words, when used in the question, "how fast were the cars going when one of them_____ into the other" would result in an eyewitness reporting the cars were going very fast?
smashed
collided
hit
bumped
16. The top of a convex object appears light coloured while the bottom appears darker. Thus, our visual system appears to interpret this object as if it were illuminated from above. The cue to depth at work in this context is
elevation
shading
haze
texture
17. The human retina contains two types of photoreceptors; they are
foveal cells and ganglion cells
rods and cones
optic cells and diodes
ganglion cells and bipolar cells
18. The chemosenses are our senses of:
sight and smell
hearing and touch
taste and smell
hearing and sight
19. The removal of part of H.M's temporal lobe seems to have interfered with his _____ memory but not with his _____ memory
explicit, implicit
procedural, declarative
semantic, episodic
implicit, explicit
20. One of the stories used in the study by Bartlett (1932) is called