Tutorial Review Quiz

If you were asked to remember the following list of words : "orange boat paper leaf scissors iguana" you are likely to remember "orange". Why?

• The primacy effect

• Serial position effects

• It may have been encoded into long term memory stores

• All of the other answers are correct

If you  were asked to remember a list of words including "scent, odour, nose, reek", you may falsely remember the word "smell" even though it was not on the list.

Which of the following is NOT a likely explanation for this phenomenon?

• Spreading activation through a semantic network

• Gaps in our memory are filled according to our understanding of the world

• Items on a list are "chunked" in our memory

• Memory is a process of reconstruction

Research suggests that people are more likely to remember words from a list if they use deep encoding strategies, such as telling themselves a story about the words. Based on tutorials, which concept best explains the improvement?

• Elaboration

• Memory palace

• Hierarchical organisation

• Self referencing

The studies discussed in the Abnormal Psychology tutorial most clearly demonstrated that

• Descriptions of normality are partially influenced by gender norms

• Descriptions of normality are primarily influenced by biology

• Descriptions of normality take into account levels of distress

• None of these options are correct

According to the studies discussed in the Abnormal Psychology tutorial, how did concepts of "normal" seem to change between 1970 and 2006?

• Concepts of normality have changed for both adult males and adult females

• Concepts of normality have NOT changed for either adult males or adult females

• Concepts of normality have changed for adult males but NOT adult females

• Concepts of normality have changed for adult females but NOT for adult males

A neurosurgeon has a patient with damage to their hypothalamus. What are they most likely to be concerned about?

• Their patient will stop breathing

• Their patient will suffer from anterograde amnesia

• Their patient may find it difficult to regulate appetite

• Their patient may not be able to coordinate movement

A neurosurgeon has a patient with damage to their medulla. What are they most likely to be concerned about?

• Their patient will stop breathing

• Their patient will suffer from anterograde amnesia

• Their patient may find it difficult to regulate appetite

• Their patient may not be able to coordinate movement

Which of the following best illustrates top-down processing of auditory information?

• information received by auditory receptors is assembled and integrated to determine what we hear

• It is easier to understand the words to a new song, if you have the lyrics available

• Satanic messages were deliberately hidden in rock music during the 1980s

• None of these options are correct

Which of the following is true regarding subliminal stimuli, as discussed in our tutorial?

• Research shows that subliminal stimuli can never influence behaviour

• Research shows that subliminal stimuli have a strong influences on behaviour

• Vicary and Thayer were the first reliable researchers of subliminal ads

• Subliminal stimuli are not reliably perceived

In our Perception tutorials we discussed a study which illustrated how expectations could influence perception. In this study, eyewitnesses recalled a "suspect" differently, depending on the crime they were accused of, in a manner consistent with stereotypes about ______

• Gender

• Age

• Race

• Socio-economic status