Unit 2. Cognition - Review

During a noisy party, Sarah suddenly hears someone mention her name from across the room, despite not paying attention to that conversation. This best illustrates:

• Change blindness

• The cocktail party effect

• Bottom-up processing

• Perceptual constancy

Which memory model suggests that information must pass through three distinct systems to be remembered?

• Working memory model

• Levels of processing model

• Multi-store model

• Long-term potentiation model

A student uses the first letter of each word in a sentence to remember the order of the planets. This is an example of:

• The serial position effect

• A mnemonic device

• The spacing effect

• Elaborative rehearsal

In making decisions about investments, John refuses to sell a losing stock because he's already invested so much money in it. This illustrates:

• Gambler's fallacy

• Mental set

• Sunk-cost fallacy

• Representativeness heuristic

The tendency to see faces in clouds or patterns in random dots demonstrates which Gestalt principle?

• Proximity

• Closure

• Similarity

• Figure-ground

A patient who can't form new memories after a brain injury, but can remember events before the injury, is experiencing:

• Retrograde amnesia

• Infantile amnesia

• Anterograde amnesia

• Source amnesia

The increasing IQ scores across generations is known as:

• The Flynn Effect

• Growth mindset

• Stereotype lift

• G-factor influence

When trying to remember where you parked your car, you're more likely to remember if you return to the same parking lot. This demonstrates:

• State-dependent memory

• Context-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Recognition memory

The ability to ride a bicycle after many years without practice is an example of:

• Explicit memory

• Episodic memory

• Implicit memory

• Semantic memory

Which of the following is NOT a monocular depth cue?

• Relative size

• Texture gradient

• Retinal disparity

• Linear perspective