TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS. ONE SET IS IN THE FORM OF AN ATTACHMENT AND IT IS A QUIZ WITH QUESTIONS. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW AND THE ONES ATTACHED.1 Compare and contrast Alzheimer's and normal age-rela

What is empiricism?

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Who was the founder of modern psychology?

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Who excluded studying those with mental deficiencies, children, and animals? 

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Functionalism is the study of 

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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” exemplifies the thinking in which area of psychology? 

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Which of the following schools of thought rejected any reference to the mind and viewed overt and observable behavior as the proper subject matter? 

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Who was the founder of clinical and school psychology? 

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What did the experience of Phineas Gage show? 

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The study of lesions of neural tissue and the injection of neutrally active chemicals is called 

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What techniques measure the difference in electrical charge between pairs of points on the head? 

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A researcher is measuring skin conductance, cardiovascular responses, muscle activity, pupil diameter, and eye blinks.  What type of method is this researcher using? 

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Perception, memory, thinking, and language are all examples of 

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Between birth and 11 months of age, a baby’s brain will double in weight.  This is due to 

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Rats are able to learn their way through a maze without being rewarded, which was a surprise to early behaviorists.  This exemplifies the concept of 

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The idea of seven plus or minus two defines what?

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The use of previous knowledge to gather and interpret stimuli is the definition of 

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Who were the subjects in Ebbinhous’s experiments? 

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When remembering an event or a story, recall is not duplicative but represents a reconstruction of the original story or picture based on memories of key details.  The reconstruction could be biased by 

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According to the readings, the attention span of Americans has ____ since the year 2000. 

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How well can an individual pay attention to multiple sources at once?  This is the issue of _________ 

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If someone says your name in a group of people, you instantly notice it, even if you were not part of that discussion.  This shows our ability in

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In a shadowing task, how much information from the “ignored” message gets through? 

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At a birthday party with lots of children running around, you are fully engaged in a conversation and then suddenly hear “Mommy” or “Daddy” in your own child’s voice.  You instantly notice it, even though you had tuned out the noise from the other children.  This is an example of the 

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People tend to think they are capable of talking on a cell phone while driving, but the percentage of people who can truly perform cognitive tasks without impairing their driving performance is estimated to be about _____ %. 

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True or false: talking on a hands-free cell phone does not affect driving performance as much as talking on a hand-held cell phone 

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The idea that mental phenomena can be explained via descriptions of physical phenomena is called 

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The strange phenomena of blindness due to a neurological cause that preserves abilities to analyze and respond to visual stimuli not consciously experienced is called 

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The ability to re-experience the past and to virtually relive an earlier event is called 

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Each conscious experience is likely preceded by precursor brain events.  One study discussed in the reading asked people to freely consider whether to press the right button or the left button.  Subjects thought that they made the decision immediately before pressing the button, but their brain activity predicted their decision as much as _____ seconds earlier. 

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The dendrites, soma, and axon are components of a/the 

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The strengthening or weakening of connections between any neurons is a function of 

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Sight reading a piece of music requires the involvement of what part of the brain? 

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When knowledge, beliefs, and expectations are brought to bear on perception, ________ processing will occur. 

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The visuospatial sketchpad and the phonological loop are components of which model? 

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What program is capable of interrupting continual semiautomatic programs when longer term goals demand departure from a continual activity? 

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When a person performs a working memory task, where is an increase in activity seen in the brain?

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In memory span experiments, irregularly spaced items ________ memory span. 

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In memory span experiments, _____ span is roughly one item greater than _____ span, which in turn is roughly one item greater than _____ span. 

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Whether information is stored in short-term or long-term memory is dependent upon how it is processed, or

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What happened with patient GR?

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Your ability to retain the gist of what you read, without remembering verbatim, is a function of which memory system?

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Our autobiographical memory is called ______ memory. 

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Where are specific memories stored in the brain? 

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What is the first type of memory loss experienced by people with Alzheimer’s disease? 

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When an event stands out as quite different from a background of similar events, it is remembered much longer.  This is termed 

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If you read a list of words such as quilt, pillow, sheets, blanket, and sleep, chances are that you will incorrectly “remember” bed as being on the list.  This is an example of 

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The change in the nervous system that represents our experience is called a

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Memory is 

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When information works backwards in time to interfere with a previous memory, this is called 

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This test is an example of a task that involves 

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If you are not paying attention to something or are distracted, _____ fails to occur. 

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 When a memory trace is transferred from the hippocampus to more durable representations in the cortex, the memory trace is said to be 

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Which of the following is NOT an impediment to remembering 

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The classic amnesia, such as occurred with HM, is also called 

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Eyewitness testimony has been implicated in at least _____ % of DNA exoneration cases 

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Which of the following has NOT been shown to make eyewitness identification errors particularly likely 

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Once a false memory is implanted, a person can 

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False memories can be created in therapy. 

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Where did you read about that miracle weight loss cure—was it in a reputable medical journal or a tabloid?  This exemplifies the problem of 

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Which of the following brain structures is NOT implicated in source monitoring? 

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A false memory arising from external factors is called 

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Telling people before an encoding phase that they might be misled and that they should encode the information carefully so as not to confuse their thoughts with the overt event 

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Long-term recall for material learned in school (e.g., a foreign language) tends to drop off for the first _____ years, but after that there is little more forgetting over the next 25 years. 

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What period in life is the most memorable in people’s elderly years? 

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