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WorksheetsPsychology: Decision Making and Language
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
Which of the following are tasks used to assess working memory in cognitive control?
N-back working memory tasks where people detect when a letter repeats or report about a target presented on n-back previous trials
Delay match-to-sample tasks where people have to say whether not a test display is identical to a previously presented study display
Digit span tasks where people have to remember lists of different lengths composed of random digits
All of these
Which of the following are tasks used to assess response inhibition in cognitive control?
Error monitoring where people slow down after making a mistake
The anti-saccade task where people have to fixate in the center of a screen of two dots, then one of the dots flashes and they have to move their eyes to the opposite dot.
The Wisconsin card sorting task where people aren’t told any rules but have to say yes or no to a card on each trial with correct/incorrect feedback until they figure out the rule.
The trail making test where people have to click on numbered dots in sequence in the first part and then alternate between numbers and letters in sequence in the second part.
Which of the following are tasks used to assess response selection in cognitive control?
Choice RT where people have to find a target as fast as possible and make a discrimination judgement about it
Numeric response mapping where people have to make judgements about numbers and the extent to which they are faster making judgements about smaller numbers with their left versus right hands.
Congruent/incongruent response mapping where people have to make responses about things on the left and right sides of a display and the extent to which they are faster responding with the same hand to stimuli on the same versus opposite side of the screen.
All of these
On a tropical beach holiday, you’re 300 times more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack. Why might people more afraid of sharks than coconuts on holiday?
The availability heuristic: Easier to recall examples of shark attacks
The base rate fallacy: The base rate of shark attacks each year isn’t taken into consideration
Third variable problem: Monkeys are actually throwing the coconuts
Recognition heuristic: Many people don’t know what coconuts are
The “tumor problem” where multiple low-strength lasers have to be used simultaneously from many different angles versus one stronger laser is most associated with which obstacle for problem solving?
The inversion fallacy where people mistakenly think that since Thing A leads to thing B, that thing B will lead to thing A.
The simulation heuristic where people determine the likelihood of an event based on how easy it is to imagine.
The conjunction fallacy where people mistakenly think that two things together are more likely than just one of those things
Functional fixedness where people cannot think of using objects beyond the usual way
Which of the following statements are true?
Frontal lobe damage often leads to dysexecutive syndrome
The Stroop task is typically used to assess task switching
Frontal lobe patients are good at switching tasks
all of these
A patient with frontal lobe/prefrontal cortex damage would likely
Show normal performance on the Stroop test, but poor performance on the WCST
Show poor performance on the Stroop test, but normal performance on the WCST
Show poor performance on the Stroop test, and poor performance on the WCST
Show normal performance on the Stroop test, and normal performance on the WCST
Which of the following is true?
Different languages have different phonemes
Different languages have different pitches processed by different parts of auditory cortex
Different languages have different phenomenological loops
None of these
Why might I call you the Jon Snow of snow?
a. You starred in Game of Thrones
b. You have a gentle bad-boy look to you
c. You cannot discriminate between phonemes
d. Your vocabulary for snow affects your perceptions
Which of the following is false?
The symbols involved in language can be combined to produce an infinite number of messages
Language allows us to communicate about objects and events that are not present
There is no evidence that language is biologically innate in humans
The bilingual brain shows different patterns of activity than the monolingual brain
Which of the following is true?
People make noticeable pauses between words, so it is easy for us to know when one word ends and the next begins
b. For mo
For most people, language is distributed evenly over the left and right hemispheres
The place and manner of articulation don’t matter for speech at higher frequencies
People will generally perceive the sound a speaker makes more based on visual versus auditory aspects
A patient who is able to understand speech, but tends to repeat one or two words over and over each time they try to speak would most likely have damage in __.
Wernicke’s area
Broca's area
Both regions
Neither region
Which of the following is true?
It doesn’t really matter what order the letters in a word are, we can still read the words
It is much easier to read in all caps
There are no areas of the brain that are selectively engaged in reading
There is only one type of dyslexia
