Unit 2 Part II Practice

What is the process called that involves interpreting sensory information by starting with the larger concept and working down to the details?

• Bottom-up processing

• Top-down processing

• Linear perspective

• Retinal disparity

Which Gestalt principle involves perceiving objects as part of a whole rather than in isolation?

• Proximity

• Closure

• Figure and ground

• Convergence

What is the term for the ability to focus on a single conversation in a noisy environment?

• Change blindness

• Cocktail party effect

• Retinal disparity

• Availability heuristic

Which of the following is a binocular cue for depth perception?

• Linear perspective

• Relative size

• Retinal disparity

• Availability heuristic

What is the heuristic called that involves judging the probability of an event by how similar it is to a prototype?

• Availability heuristic

• Representativeness heuristic

• Linear perspective

• Change blindness

Which of the following is a type of memory that involves recalling personal experiences?

• Semantic memory

• Procedural memory

• Episodic memory

• Prospective memory

What is the process of maintaining information over time in memory called?

• Encoding

• Storage

• Retrieval

• Processing

Which component of the working memory model is responsible for auditory information?

• Central executive

• Visuospatial sketchpad

• Phonological loop

• Long-term memory

What is the term for the cognitive bias where people continue a behavior due to previously invested resources?

• Gambler's fallacy

• Sunk-cost fallacy

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

Which memory phenomenon refers to the tendency to remember the first items in a list?

• Recency effect

• Spacing effect

• Primacy effect

• Encoding