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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:

  • procedural memory implied conscious effort, implicit memory assumes no conscious effort
  • 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

  • the war of the ghosts
  • the Indian brave
  • the hunting party
  • from Euglac to Kalama