TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS. ONE SET IS IN THE FORM OF AN ATTACHMENT AND IT IS A QUIZ WITH QUESTIONS. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW AND THE ONES ATTACHED.1 Compare and contrast Alzheimer’s and normal age-rela

TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS. ONE SET IS IN THE FORM OF AN ATTACHMENT AND IT IS A QUIZ WITH QUESTIONS. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW AND THE ONES ATTACHED.1 Compare and contrast Alzheimer’s and normal age-rela
  What is empiricism? Question 1 options: The idea that all knowledge comes from the Web The idea that all knowledge is innate The idea that all knowledge comes from experience The idea that all knowledge comes from history Question 2 (1 point)   Who was the founder of modern psychology? Question 2 options: Sigmund Freud Wilhelm Wundt B.F. Skinner Dr. Ruth Question 3 (1 point)   Who excluded studying those with mental deficiencies, children, and animals?  Question 3 options: Titchener Skinner Dr. Oz Piaget Question 4 (1 point)   Functionalism is the study of  Question 4 options: What the mind is The Id The unconscious What the mind does Question 5 (1 point)   “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” exemplifies the thinking in which area of psychology?  Question 5 options: Behaviorism Psychoanalysis Gestalt psychology Learning theory Question 6 (1 point)   Which of the following schools of thought rejected any reference to the mind and viewed overt and observable behavior as the proper subject matter?  Question 6 options: Behaviorism Psychoanalysis Gestalt psychology Learning theory Question 7 (1 point)   Who was the founder of clinical and school psychology?  Question 7 options: Freud Piaget Wundt Witmer Question 8 (1 point)   What did the experience of Phineas Gage show?  Question 8 options: That there are specific areas of the brain associated with certain psychological phenomena That each part of the brain is essential and that if there is a severe brain injury one cannot survive That the brain has “plasticity,” meaning that healthy areas of the brain take over for damaged areas That a rod through the brain has essentially no effect on personality Question 9 (1 point)   The study of lesions of neural tissue and the injection of neutrally active chemicals is called  Question 9 options: Physiology methods Invasive methods Neural methods Noninvasive methods Question 10 (1 point)   What techniques measure the difference in electrical charge between pairs of points on the head?  Question 10 options: fMRI BOLD sMRI EEG Question 11 (1 point)   A researcher is measuring skin conductance, cardiovascular responses, muscle activity, pupil diameter, and eye blinks.  What type of method is this researcher using?  Question 11 options: Central nervous system Peripheral nervous system Parasympathetic nervous system Sympathetic nervous system Question 12 (1 point)   Perception, memory, thinking, and language are all examples of  Question 12 options: Simple actions Learning Cognition Social behavior Question 13 (1 point)   Between birth and 11 months of age, a baby’s brain will double in weight.  This is due to  Question 13 options: An increase in number of neurons An increase in complexity of connections between neurons An increase in neurotransmitters An increase in brain fluid Question 14 (1 point)   Rats are able to learn their way through a maze without being rewarded, which was a surprise to early behaviorists.  This exemplifies the concept of  Question 14 options: Learning theory Observational learning Reinforcement learning Latent learning Question 15 (1 point)   The idea of seven plus or minus two defines what? Question 15 options: The limits of long-term memory The limits of short-term memory The limits of cognitive processing The limits of bottleneck processing Question 16 (1 point)   The use of previous knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli is the definition of  Question 16 options: Perception Attention Memory Thinking Question 17 (1 point)   Who were the subjects in Ebbinhous’s experiments?  Question 17 options: Children Neurotic women Soldiers Himself Question 18 (1 point)   When remembering an event or a story, recall is not duplicative but represents a reconstruction of the original story or picture based on memories of key details.  The reconstruction could be biased by  Question 18 options: Concentration and importation Repeated and serial reproduction Harmonization and repitition Conventionalization and importation Question 19 (1 point)   According to the readings, the attention span of Americans has ____ since the year 2000.  Question 19 options: Increased Decreased Stayed consistent First increased, then decreased Question 20 (1 point)   How well can an individual pay attention to multiple sources at once?  This is the issue of _________  Question 20 options: Divided attention Selective attention Spatial attention Multiple attention Question 21 (1 point)   If someone says your name in a group of people, you instantly notice it, even if you were not part of that discussion.  This shows our ability in Question 21 options: Divided attention Selective attention Spatial attention Multiple attention  Question 22 (1 point)   In a shadowing task, how much information from the “ignored” message gets through?  Question 22 options: A lot—listeners generally remember most of the message A moderate amount—listeners generally remember the gist, if not the specifics, of the message A little–listeners remember whether it was a man’s or woman’s voice, but do not remember any of the content None—listeners completely “tuned out” the ignored message and do not remember anything about it Question 23 (1 point)   At a birthday party with lots of children running around, you are fully engaged in a conversation and then suddenly hear “Mommy” or “Daddy” in your own child’s voice.  You instantly notice it, even though you had tuned out the noise from the other children.  This is an example of the  Question 23 options: Relevant stimuli phenomenon Group listening phenomenon Birthday party phenomenon Cocktail party phenomenon Question 24 (1 point)   People tend to think they are capable of talking on a cell phone while driving, but the percentage of people who can truly perform cognitive tasks without impairing their driving performance is estimated to be about _____ %.  Question 24 options: 10 15 Question 25 (1 point)   True or false: talking on a hands-free cell phone does not affect driving performance as much as talking on a hand-held cell phone  Question 25 options: True False Question 26 (1 point)   The idea that mental phenomena can be explained via descriptions of physical phenomena is called  Question 26 options: Dualism Reductionism Abstractism Physicalism Question 27 (1 point)   The strange phenomena of blindness due to a neurological cause that preserves abilities to analyze and respond to visual stimuli not consciously experienced is called  Question 27 options: Atypical blindness neurological blindness hindsignt blindsight Question 28 (1 point)   The ability to re-experience the past and to virtually relive an earlier event is called  Question 28 options: Episodic recollection Semantic recollection Proprioceptive recollection Core memory recollection Question 29 (1 point)   Each conscious experience is likely preceded by precursor brain events.  One study discussed in the reading asked people to freely consider whether to press the right button or the left button.  Subjects thought that they made the decision immediately before pressing the button, but their brain activity predicted their decision as much as _____ seconds earlier.  Question 29 options: 10 15 20 Question 30 (1 point)   The dendrites, soma, and axon are components of a/the  Question 30 options: Cell body Neuron neurotransmitter Myelin Question 31 (1 point)   The strengthening or weakening of connections between any neurons is a function of  Question 31 options: Changes in the number of axons Changes in the number of dendrites Changes in the number of synapses Changes in the number of neurons Question 32 (1 point)   Sight reading a piece of music requires the involvement of what part of the brain?  Question 32 options: The brain stem The pons The medulla The cortex Question 33 (1 point)   When knowledge, beliefs, and expectations are brought to bear on perception, ________ processing will occur.  Question 33 options: Top-down Bottom-up Data driven Perception driven Question 34 (1 point)   The visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are components of which model?  Question 34 options: Atkinson and Shiffrin Baddeley and Hitch Starsky and Hutch Cain and Abel Question 35 (1 point)   What program is capable of interrupting continual semiautomatic programs when longer term goals demand departure from a continual activity?  Question 35 options: Phonological loop Visuospatial sketchpad Working memory Supervisory attentional system Question 36 (1 point)   When a person performs a working memory task, where is an increase in activity seen in the brain? Question 36 options: Occipital cortex Temporal cortex Parietal cortex Prefrontal cortex Question 37 (1 point)   In memory span experiments, irregularly spaced items ________ memory span.  Question 37 options: Increase Decrease Have no effect upon fragment Question 38 (1 point)   In memory span experiments, _____ span is roughly one item greater than _____ span, which in turn is roughly one item greater than _____ span.  Question 38 options: Word; letter; digit digit; word; letter Digit; letter; word Word; digit; letter Question 39 (1 point)   Whether information is stored in short-term or long-term memory is dependent upon how it is processed, or Question 39 options: Encoded Implanted Primed Predisposed Question 40 (1 point)   What happened with patient GR? Question 40 options: He was never able to form new memories He was never able to regain past memories He was able to regain past memories  He was able to listen to two different stories at once, one in each ear Question 41 (1 point)   Your ability to retain the gist of what you read, without remembering verbatim, is a function of which memory system? Question 41 options: Working memory Long term memory Echoic memory Visual memory Question 42 (1 point)   Our autobiographical memory is called ______ memory.  Question 42 options: Working Implicit Episodic Semantic Question 43 (1 point)   Where are specific memories stored in the brain?  Question 43 options: In specific locations In pieces distributed throughout the brain In the frontal lobe In Broca’s area Question 44 (1 point)   What is the first type of memory loss experienced by people with Alzheimer’s disease?  Question 44 options: Episodic Semantic Declarative Implicit Question 45 (1 point)   When an event stands out as quite different from a background of similar events, it is remembered much longer.  This is termed  Question 45 options: Specialness  Recoding  Flashbulb memory Distinctiveness Question 46 (1 point)   If you read a list of words such as quilt, pillow, sheets, blanket, and sleep, chances are that you will incorrectly “remember” bed as being on the list.  This is an example of  Question 46 options: Transverse memory False memory Dichotic memory Inaccurate memory Question 47 (1 point)   The change in the nervous system that represents our experience is called a Question 47 options: Memory trace Neuronal network Synaptic system Functional image Question 48 (1 point)   Memory is  Question 48 options: Reproductive Reconstructive Like a video recording Always accurate Question 49 (1 point)   When information works backwards in time to interfere with a previous memory, this is called  Question 49 options: Retroactive interference Proactive interference Neuronal interference Bilateral interference Question 50 (1 point)   This test is an example of a task that involves  Question 50 options: Recall Recognition Dichotic memory Distinctiveness Question 51 (1 point)   If you are not paying attention to something or are distracted, _____ fails to occur.  Question 51 options: mylin neurotransmitter transmission Encoding Decay Question 52 (1 point)    When a memory trace is transferred from the hippocampus to more durable representations in the cortex, the memory trace is said to be  Question 52 options: Consolidated Fortified Anchored Retrieved Question 53 (1 point)   Which of the following is NOT an impediment to remembering  Question 53 options: Encoding failures Decay Interference Permanent erasure Question 54 (1 point)   The classic amnesia, such as occurred with HM, is also called  Question 54 options: Functional amnesia Dissociative amnesia Organic amnesia Profound amnesia Question 55 (1 point)   Eyewitness testimony has been implicated in at least _____ % of DNA exoneration cases  Question 55 options: 25 50 75 100 Question 56 (1 point)   Which of the following has NOT been shown to make eyewitness identification errors particularly likely  Question 56 options: Poor viewing conditions Perpetrator of the same race Delay between witnessing and identifying Stressful circumstances Question 57 (1 point)   Once a false memory is implanted, a person can  Question 57 options: Easily tell the difference between a false memory and true memory Have difficulty telling the difference between a false memory and a true memory Use a false memory removal technique, but some real memories may be removed as well Be more susceptible to unrelated false memories Question 58 (1 point)   False memories can be created in therapy.  Question 58 options: True False Question 59 (1 point)   Where did you read about that miracle weight loss cure—was it in a reputable medical journal or a tabloid?  This exemplifies the problem of  Question 59 options: Anterograde amnesia Retrograde amnesia False memory Source monitoring Question 60 (1 point)   Which of the following brain structures is NOT implicated in source monitoring?  Question 60 options: Hippocampus Frontal lobe Brain stem —- (Intentionally left blank) Question 61 (1 point)   A false memory arising from external factors is called  Question 61 options: Proactive interference Retroactive interference Source memory interference Confabulation Question 62 (1 point)   Telling people before an encoding phase that they might be misled and that they should encode the information carefully so as not to confuse their thoughts with the overt event  Question 62 options: Increases false memory Eliminates false memory Decreases false memory Has no effect upon false memory Question 63 (1 point)   Long-term recall for material learned in school (e.g., a foreign language) tends to drop off for the first _____ years, but after that there is little more forgetting over the next 25 years.  Question 63 options: Question 64 (1 point)   What period in life is the most memorable in people’s elderly years?  Question 64 options: Ages 10-25 Ages 15-30 Ages 20-35 Ages 25-40