Final Exam – Essay Questions
Chapter 7
In your neuropsychology class, you are struggling with the multiple choice
exams your professor gives. You are used to factual questions, but Dr.
Brown is giving applied questions. Why might you have trouble with an
applied exam when you have been memorizing definitions?
Chapter 8
While going downtown with your roommate, you find yourselves driving over
a long bridge with water far below. When you look out of the window and
down at the water, you suddenly experience a weird feeling followed by a
bout of panic. You have never experienced a fear of heights or bridges
before, so you mention this to your brother later. He proceeds to tell a story
of when the two of you were young and he pushed you off a log that ran
over a creek in your backyard and you could not swim. Luckily, your father
pulled you out of the water before you drowned. How could your sudden
feeling of panic be explained?
Chapter 9
How is the lexical decision task similar to a clinical free association task?
Chapter 10
If you were trying to remember that the Turkish word for “very” was “chok,”
how could you use the link word method to help you?
Chapter 11
What kind of processing does the word superiority effect suggest, top-down
(conceptual) or bottom-up (perceptual)?