Psychology 4040, Fall 2006 Name ________________________

Dr. Stephen R. Schmidt

TEST 3

I. Identification (5 pts each for a total of 50 pts):

1) category-size effect:

2) fan effect:

3) node:

4) Broca’s aphasia:

5) lexical decision task:

6) transformational grammar:

7) morpheme:

8) functional fixedness:

9) problem isomorphs:

10) verbal protocol:
Short Answer: (10 points each, for a total of 50 points)

1. I argued in class that strong emotional responses impair cognitive processes. Choose one example of how this is the case and describe supporting evidence.

2. Compare and contrast the hierarchical network (i.e., Collins & Quillian) model of semantic memory and the Collins and Loftus to the spreading activation theory. What new findings did the spreading activation theory account for that the hierarchical network theory could not?

3. In Chomsky’s theory, what is the difference between the surface structure and the deep structure of a sentence? According to this theory, how can two sentences with different syntax have the same meaning?

4. What factors are likely to influence the difficulty of a problem-solving task? Choose one of these factors and give an example of how it impacts problem difficulty.

5. Across a number of individual topics in cognitive psychology, we have found that human performance was limited by relatively fixed processing capacity. Choose three topics covered in this course that illustrate limited capacity processing, and describe how our performance is influenced by capacity constraints.