Psych/Soc · 6B

Cognition, memory, and sleep

Content category 6B. 33 questions in 7 sets, each with reasoning for every answer choice.

Set 1 · Cognitive development

  1. Cocktail party effect and attention modelsmedium
  2. Piaget: conservation and the concrete operational stageeasy
  3. Piaget: assimilation vs. accommodationeasy
  4. The framing effectmedium
  5. Fluid vs. crystallized intelligence with agingeasy

Set 2 · Language

  1. Spearman's g vs. Gardner's multiple intelligenceseasy
  2. Broca's vs. Wernicke's aphasiaeasy
  3. Language acquisition: nativist vs. learning vs. interactionisteasy
  4. Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity)easy
  5. Proactive vs. retroactive interferenceeasy

Set 3 · Memory

  1. Elaborative vs. maintenance rehearsaleasy
  2. Procedural vs. episodic memory after hippocampal damagemedium
  3. Serial position: recency vs. primacy effectmedium
  4. Semantic priming and spreading activationmedium
  5. Context-dependent memorymedium

Set 4 · Memory

  1. The misinformation effectmedium
  2. Baddeley's working memory: the phonological loopmedium
  3. Retrograde vs. anterograde amnesiamedium
  4. Long-term potentiationmedium
  5. Prefrontal cortex and personalitymedium

Set 5 · Problem solving

  1. Split-brain patients and the left visual fieldhard
  2. EEG vs. fMRI: temporal resolutionhard
  3. Availability vs. representativeness heuristiceasy
  4. Functional fixedness vs. mental seteasy
  5. Belief perseverance vs. confirmation biasmedium

Set 6 · Psychoactive drugs

  1. Deductive vs. inductive reasoningmedium
  2. Cocaine vs. amphetamine: how they raise dopaminemedium
  3. The mesolimbic reward pathwaymedium
  4. REM sleep characteristicseasy
  5. Suprachiasmatic nucleus and melatonineasy

Set 7 · Sleep

  1. Night terrors (N3) vs. nightmares (REM)medium
  2. Selective REM deprivation and REM reboundhard
  3. Narcolepsy and orexinhard