Which of the following statements about Swinney’s 1979 experiment is FALSE?

A. Participants were presented with spoken passage like these; (a) Mary needed to buy some presents, so she went to the bank;(b) Mary found the river cold ,so she swam to the bank
B. immediately after the presentation of the ambiguous word, Swinney presented a single letter string on a screen participants had to decide whether the letter string was a world or not(a lexical decision)
C. When the string was a word, it could either be related to the intended sense of the ambiguous word(e.g) money’) related to the other sense (e.g mud), or unrelated to other
D. It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection

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In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?
A. factorial design
B. within subjects design
C. between subjects design
D. quasi-experimental design
If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?
A. invalid
B. biased
C. error
D. unreliable
An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:
A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
B. rote memory scores
C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue
Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1
A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 1 & 3
Which of the following statements about Pavlov’s dogs is FALSE?
A. Pavlov’s standard procedure, involved the following: a dog was given access to food, and each presentation was accompanied (usually slightly preceded by the occurrence of a neutral event, such as a flashing light
B. After several training trials (pairings of light and food), the dog would salivate at the flash of light, before any food had appeared
C. Salivation at the presentation of food is called a conditioned response
D. The event that evokes the conditioned response is referred to as a conditioned stimulus
One of the following statements is FALSE-but which one?
A. A system of channels can only signal preferred orientation of any single channel
B. Perceptual information is likely to be merged via a process that combines the activities across all channels
C. As part of the process of synthesis, channel activities are likely to be weighted according to the level of activity in each channel
D. The merging process may find the ‘center of gravity’ of the distribution of activity
Which of the following statements about the cortex is FALSE?
A. Within the cortex, the general flow of local information runs vertically
B. Within the cortex, information flows to cells in other layers above and below the activated cells
C. Hubel and Wiesel (19613) discovered that all cortical neurons respond best the spots of light
D. All of the above
Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
4. All of the above
A. 1 & 2
B. 1 & 3
C. 2 & 3
D. 4
Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?
A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’
B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge
C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence
D. Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources
Which of the following statements regarding the psychological effects of unemployment is FALSE?
A. The unemployed have poorer mental health than comparable groups of employed people
B. The unemployed have poorer physical health than comparable groups of employed people
C. The psychological effects of unemployment do not usually affect anyone apart from the unemployed person
D. none of the above – all are correct