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Suppose that you have a mental image of your favorite actor. If that image is stored in a propositional code, the representation would emphasize                                               .

Which of the following is an example of a typicality effect?

Which of the following is the most likely reason that many psychologists moved away from behaviorism in favor of cognitive psychology?

Choose one of the three lists below and create a narrative centered on the terms in the list (note: if you’ve already completed an essay question in this exam, make sure the list you choose for this question is different than the previous list you chose). The narratives should include real-world experiences (not necessarily your own) that illustrate the six terms in each list. Each experience that illustrates a term should be brief and should clearly demonstrate your knowledge of the term’s definition (without explicitly defining the term) and application to the real world. Bracket the sentences for each experience and then include the term being illustrated in parentheses at the end of the experience. For example, if the term were attentional bias, I could write the following real-world experience with the appropriate brackets and parentheses: [Sally started smoking when she was 16 years old but quit 10 years ago. Despite quitting, she notices that anytime she’s out in a public place and smells cigarette smoke or sees a cigarette she is immediately drawn to them. (attentional bias)]. The six real-world experiences should flow and be part of an overall story rather than six distinct and stand-alone experiences. You may include some transition sentences between your real-world descriptions, in order to help with the flow of the narrative. Each experience that accurately illustrates a term will receive 3 points. If the narrative creates an overall story rather than six separate experiences, you will receive 7 additional points, making each essay worth 25 points and the essay section worth a total of 50 points. Note about example described above: attentional bias refers to a situation when people pay extra attention to some stimulus or feature.   List 1 Elaboration Ribot’s Law Superordinate Typicality Level Same-category Heuristic Forgetting curve Dorsal visual pathway   List 2 Skeletal conditioning Prototype Model Alignment Heuristic Proactive Interference Anterograde Amnesia Emotional Stroop Effect   List 3 Ad Hoc Categories Spatial Framework Model Reminiscence Bump Procedural Memory Semantic Network Model Object Permanence

Which of the following scientists is considered the Father of Experimental Psychology and relied on introspective methods to probe cognition?

Bernard opens the pantry to find a midnight snack. After a moment, the light bulb burns out, and he can’t see any more. He gets turned around in the darkness, but still wants a snack. According to the Spatial Framework Model, Bernard should be fastest to find                                            and slowest to find                                            .

Name the famous microbiologist who produced the first laboratory-developed vaccine: the vaccine for chicken cholera. He happened upon the method of attenuation by accident. In his lab, he was studying fowl cholera by injecting chickens with the live bacteria and recording the illness progression. He had instructed an assistant to inject the chickens with a fresh culture of the bacteria before a holiday. The assistant, however, forgot. When the assistant returned a month later, he injected the chickens with month-old cultures. The chickens, while showing mild signs of the disease, survived. When they were healthy again, they injected them with fresh bacteria. The chickens did not become ill.

A man experiences a stroke that damages part of his brain. After the stroke, his wife would regularly put a plate of food in front of him, but he would only eat food on one side of the plate. He can see just fine, but he fails to notice things on one side of his visual field. Also, when scientists did tests on him, they would ask him to draw a picture of the beach. He would include small features like a beach umbrella but would miss the big features like the stretch of sand and water that form the coastline. Which of the following brain regions is the damage from the stroke most likely located?

_____infections are caused by a microbe that invades because of the weakened defenses due to an infection by a different agent. (I10)

In Treisman’s model of attention, what happens to an unattended message?