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?

If you used an fMRI task similar to Adrian Owen and his colleagues to determine whether a patient were conscious, which of the following brain regions would you expect to be active during the task?

Suppose that several cognitive scientists are trying to program a computer so that it solves a particular problem in the same way a human does, taking into account that a human may make a few false starts before successfully solving the problem. This approach is called                                               .