Question 1

When two or more processes take place simultaneously, it is called _____ processing.

Accepted Answer

A)  top-down 
B)  serial 
C)  parallel 
D)  automatic 
A)  top-down 
B)  serial 
C)  parallel 
D)  automatic

Question 2

_________ experience childhood amnesia, and cannot recall events before their third birthday

Accepted Answer

A)  Adults who have suffered stroke 
B)  Children born with aggramatism 
C)  Children who have experienced head trauma 
D)  All adults 
A)  Adults who have suffered stroke 
B)  Children born with aggramatism 
C)  Children who have experienced head trauma 
D)  All adults

Question 3

Which is NOT true of neural network models?

Accepted Answer

A)  They are based on patterns of excitatory and inhibitory neural activity. 
B)  They are useful for modeling cognitive processes. 
C)  They are an important alternative to serial models of processing. 
D)  They have not yet been shown to be useful for modeling language processes. 
A)  They are based on patterns of excitatory and inhibitory neural activity. 
B)  They are useful for modeling cognitive processes. 
C)  They are an important alternative to serial models of processing. 
D)  They have not yet been shown to be useful for modeling language processes.

Question 4

Piaget referred to the concepts we use to organize our experience as:

Accepted Answer

A)  imitiations 
B)  intuitions 
C)  schemata 
D)  episodes 
A)  imitiations 
B)  intuitions 
C)  schemata 
D)  episodes

Question 5

A test in which increasingly longer lists of items (such as numbers or words) are presented for later recall is called a ________ test.

Accepted Answer

A)  partial report 
B)  memory span 
C)  sketchpad 
D)  Stroop 
A)  partial report 
B)  memory span 
C)  sketchpad 
D)  Stroop

Question 6

Our organized knowledge of words, concepts, symbols, and objects is called:

Accepted Answer

A)  episodic memory 
B)  semantic memory 
C)  permanent memory 
D)  working memory 
A)  episodic memory 
B)  semantic memory 
C)  permanent memory 
D)  working memory

Question 7

Daneman and Carpenter (1980) studied the relationship between working memory span and reading comprehension with two span measures. The results suggested that performance on __________ correlated highly with reading comprehension SAT scores.

Accepted Answer

A)  the simple digit span measure 
B)  the complex storage and processing span measure 
C)  both the simple digit span and complex storage and processing span measures 
D)  neither the simple digit span nor the complex storage and processing span measure 
A)  the simple digit span measure 
B)  the complex storage and processing span measure 
C)  both the simple digit span and complex storage and processing span measures 
D)  neither the simple digit span nor the complex storage and processing span measure

Question 8

_______ models divide the activities involved in processing language into non-overlapping stages.

Accepted Answer

A)  Top-down 
B)  Bottom-up 
C)  Serial 
D)  Parallel 
A)  Top-down 
B)  Bottom-up 
C)  Serial 
D)  Parallel

When two or more processes take place simultaneously, it is called _____ processing.

_________ experience childhood amnesia, and cannot recall events before their third birthday

Which is NOT true of neural network models?

Piaget referred to the concepts we use to organize our experience as:

A test in which increasingly longer lists of items (such as numbers or words) are presented for later recall is called a ________ test.

Our organized knowledge of words, concepts, symbols, and objects is called:

Daneman and Carpenter (1980) studied the relationship between working memory span and reading comprehension with two span measures. The results suggested that performance on __________ correlated highly with reading comprehension SAT scores.

_______ models divide the activities involved in processing language into non-overlapping stages.

Introduction-Themes of Psycholinguistics

Linguistic Principle

Perception of Language

The Internal Lexicon

Sentence Comprehension and Memory

Discourse Comprehension and Memory

Production of Speech and Language

Conversational Interaction

Early Language Acquisition

Later Language Acquisition

Processes of Language Acquisition

Biological Foundations of Language

Language, Culture, and Cognition

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Exam 3: Psychological Mechanisms

When two or more processes take place simultaneously, it is called _____ processing.

_________ experience childhood amnesia, and cannot recall events before their third birthday

Which is NOT true of neural network models?

Piaget referred to the concepts we use to organize our experience as:

A test in which increasingly longer lists of items (such as numbers or words) are presented for later recall is called a ________ test.

Our organized knowledge of words, concepts, symbols, and objects is called:

Daneman and Carpenter (1980) studied the relationship between working memory span and reading comprehension with two span measures. The results suggested that performance on __________ correlated highly with reading comprehension SAT scores.

_______ models divide the activities involved in processing language into non-overlapping stages.

Introduction-Themes of Psycholinguistics

Linguistic Principle

Perception of Language

The Internal Lexicon

Sentence Comprehension and Memory

Discourse Comprehension and Memory

Production of Speech and Language

Conversational Interaction

Early Language Acquisition

Later Language Acquisition

Processes of Language Acquisition

Biological Foundations of Language

Language, Culture, and Cognition

Filters