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Questions

1. Which property below is not true of both a functional analysis and a system of TOTE units:

a. Both systems provide functional descriptions instead of physical descriptions

b. Both systems treat the feedback loop as the fundamental building block of behavior

c. Both systems will have a hierarchical organization of functional components

d. Both systems decompose a complex component into an organized system of simpler components

2. In a cognitive psychology experiment, a participant generates a label to a stimulus; stimuli are presented one by one. Which statement best describes what is going on in the study?

a. The method of absolute judgment is being used to measure the amount of information being transferred to the participant

b. The method of anticipation is being used to measure the amount of information being transferred to the participant

c. The method of absolute judgment is being used to measure the participant's recoding of information

d. The method of anticipation is being used to measure the participant's recoding of information

3. Which philosopher developed a new approach to scientific explanation to show how functionalist theories can be explanatory?

a. Ryle

b. Cummins

c. Fodor

d. Haugeland

4. Early research with newly invented digital computers programmed them to play games. Why is this important to cognitive psychology?

a. When computers fail to beat human players at a challenging game, human cognition is shown to be different from computer processing

b. If a computer could play a challenging game, then cognition might plausibly be explained as information processing

c. Because playing games is fun, researchers hoped to link theories of information processing with theories of emotion

d. If a computer could play a challenging game, then games like chess could not possibly serve as models of human cognition -- because machines could do them!

5. Imagine Sperling studied iconic memory after participants were administered a drug which prevented them from controlling their spotlight of attention. Which statement is most likely true of such a study?

a. The partial report technique would reveal greater memory capacity than revealed by the whole report technique

b. The whole report technique and the partial report technique would produce identical estimates of memory capacity

c. The whole report technique would reveal greater memory capacity than revealed by the partial report technique

d. The drug would not affect iconic memory processes because they work completely independently of attentional mechanisms.