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1. Human brains have a distinct division-of-labor strategy. Each task is achieved as a result of multiple brain areas working together. But the work of the various parts of the brain must be compiled into a finished whole. The issue of how this reassembly works is referred to as:
D. the binding problem.
2. Which of the following is a "structural" or "static" neuroimaging technique?
C. CAT scan
3. Which of the following is likely to be stored in episodic memory?
D. your recollection of what you had to eat last New Year's Eve
4. The two major visual pathways of the brain, one projecting to the parietal lobe and one to the temporal lobe can be called:
B. The "what" and "where" systems
5. Which of the following items would you recognize the fastest (with the shortest presentation duration), assuming that your experimental procedures controlled adequately for guessing?
D. BENCH
6. What is the major function of the occipital lobe?
C. Vision
7. Some researchers explain Capgras Syndrome as:
D. the result of a disconnection between a cognitive appraisal and a sense of familiarity
8. Evidence from anarthric (speech-less) patients suggests that:
D. muscles needed for speech are not needed for subvocalization
9. When we proofread a paper, we sometimes perceive letters that are not there, thereby failing to detect spelling errors on the page. A similar phenomenon, perceiving aspects of the stimulus that are not actually present, has been documented in hearing. This phenomenon is called:
C. the phonemic restoration effect
10. When one criticizes introspectionism for not enabling one scientist to check another scientist's observations, one is accusing it of being too:
A. subjective
11. What is one way in which a feature net (for recognizing words) can account for the fact that letter strings that follow the spelling patterns of English are recognized faster than letter strings that don't?
A. including bigram detectors as nodes in the net
12. The Nobel prize winners Hubel and Weisel observed that specific neurons in the cat's visual system responded to particular visual inputs. This is often taken as evidence for:
C. Visual feature detectors
13. A researcher wishes to define the receptive field for a particular neuron in the visual cortex. To do this, the researcher will need to specify:
A. an area within the visual field, with the cell firing if the appropriate target appears within the area
14. Primary visual cortex (area V1) in the right hemisphere of the brain receives information from:
B. Left visual field
15. In using the articulatory rehearsal loop, the central executive temporarily relies on storage:
D. in a phonological buffer
16. The finding that you can find a tilted line in a bunch of vertical lines faster than you can find a vertical line in a bunch of tilted lines is called:
B. search asymmetry
17. A number of techniques have been developed that allow us to examine the moment-by-moment activity levels of specifically defined brain areas. These techniques are called:
C. neuroimaging techniques
18. One of the ways in which the various projection areas in the visual cortex are organized is considered to be more important than others. Which way?
B. They are organized as topographic maps, maintaining a (roughly) 1:1 correspondence to location in the visual world
19. Which of the following would a classical behaviorist be least likely to study?
A. a participant's beliefs
20. You have to name the color of ink in which something is printed. Which of the following "somethings" will result in the slowest naming time?
D. A color word
21. A patient with visual agnosia will probably show an inability to:
A. identify common objects in plain view.
22. The recognition of faces:
C. is influenced by configurational factors, suggesting that a model based on feature detection will provide a poor explanation of face recognition
23. "Bottom-up" (or "data-driven") mechanisms
D. mechanisms for which activity is primarily triggered and shaped by the incoming stimulus information
24. Search asymmetries can be interpreted as evidence for which of the following claims?
D. An occurrence of an element (such as a gap) can constitute a feature for the visual system, even though the absence of that element (no gap) does not constitute a feature
25. Biederman's Recognition by Components (RBC) model:
C. makes use of geon detectors, which in turn trigger detectors for geon assemblies
26. As a neuromaging techinque, ERP is characterized by
B. Low spatial and high temporal resolution
27. If you, as a scientist, really want to talk about mentalistic notions (images, thoughts, ideas, and the like), which of the following approaches would you NOT adopt:
D. behaviourism
28. If a researcher applies mild electrical current to a specific area of an animal's right hemisphere primary motor projection area, which of the following is likely to happen?
C. a specific movement of a body part on the left side of the animal
29. In an experiment in which a participant first saw an outline picture of an object with half the contours erased, and then saw a second outline picture of an object with half the contours erased. The fact that the experimental participant was as fast to name the second picture under one condition as s/he was in a condition in which the second picture was identical to the first has been taken to support Biederman's geon theory. Which condition was it?
D. The first and the second pictures showed the same geons, just different parts of each geon
30. Which of the following is not one of the levels of David Marr's levels of understanding of an information processor?
C. Speed of operation

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