Suppose that you are taking a course in geometry. You are trying to determine whether two geometric shapes are identical, so you mentally rotate one of the figures in a clockwise fashion. You are likely to find that                                                 .

Last year, a BYU student went to support the baseball team at their opening game. During the game, a foul ball struck him in the head. For the next month, the student had memory problems. He would go to lecture but after an hour wouldn’t remember having ever attended. During that month-long period, what was the student experiencing?

Which of the following is an example of a typicality effect?

*IMAGINE* that you and a group of other students want to conduct a study on mental rotation, using photographs of human faces. You find that people take the same amount of time to rotate a mental image, regardless of the size of the rotation. Which approach do your data support?

Which of the following statements provides the most accurate information about gender comparisons in cognitive skills?

Which of the following impairments did H.M. experience?

Habituation occurs when an infant                                                             .

You go to a restaurant for dinner, and for the majority of the evening you have a pretty typical dining experience. Right before you give the server your credit card to pay for your meal, a person sitting in the booth next to you gets up and asks you to marry her. Based on what we know about a schema, how well will you remember the impromptu proposal in the future, in comparison to the other events that happened that night?

The partial report procedure has been used to measure span of apprehension.  What is the conclusion from these studies?

In Treisman’s model of attention, what happens to an unattended message?