Quiz 1.5 Coglab 9 & 10

Question 1

If you were asked to judge whether “leg” was a word, what item presented just before “leg” would most facilitate this judgement?

a. Question
b. Chair
c. City
d. Rotate

Answer 1

b. Chair

Question 1

What is a lexicon?

a. A mental dictionary.
b. A distractor item.
c. The memory for your name.
d. A concept.

Answer 1

a. A mental dictionary.

Question 2

In the Coglab Lexical Decision Task, which of the following took the shortest amount of time?

a. Judging a word after the presentation of a related word.
b. Judging a non-word after the presentation of a word.
c. Judging a non-word after the presentation of a non-word.
d. Judging a word after the presentation of a non-related word.

Answer 2

a. Judging a word after the presentation of a related word.

Question 3

In which example is it easiest to decide whether the two stimuli are the same or different?

a. STQR/STQR
b. STQR/STAR
c. STAR/STQR
d. STAR/STIR

Answer 3

d. STAR/STIR

Question 4

Bottom-up information is gathered from

a. Personal experience
b. Long-term memory
c. None of the above
d. Sensory information

Answer 4

d. Sensory information

Question 5

The ‘word superiority effect’ means…

a. some descriptive words are more suitable in certain communicative environments.
b. visual patterns of letters comprise words.
c. Broca’s aphasia is less likely to occur with some words as opposed to others.
d. it is easier to identify the target letter when it is embedded in a word

Answer 5

d. it is easier to identify the target letter when it is embedded in a word

Question 6

The ‘word superiority effect’ demonstrates the importance of which of the following phenomena in human cognition.

a. Memory
b. Enunciation
c. Semantic priming
d. Context

Answer 6

d. Context

Question 7

Which of the following pairs of words should have the greatest activation strength?

a. Bread/shop
b. Bread/bicycle
c. Bread/plastic
d. Bread/butter

Answer 7

d. Bread/butter