1. What would be the best description for the difference between semantic and episodic
memory?
a. Semantic memory implies personal involvement in memories and/or knowledge
while episodic memory is more general and does not emphasize any personal
involvement
b. Episodic memory implies personal involvement in memories and/or knowledge
while semantic memory is more general and does not emphasize any personal
involvement
c. Semantic memory is strictly about the meaning associated with different
categories of objects while episodic memory is better associated with general
knowledge about the world
d. Semantic memory and episodic memory have no differences and are just
different terms for the same idea
2. According to the prototype approach, which of the following would be the most
prototypical example for the category “bird”?
a. Penguin
b. Ostrich
c. Kiwi
d. Robin
3. In the documentary “The Creative Mind”, when asking participants about how one would
go about removing a dollar bill from underneath a pyramid, multiple words which
included the solution to the problem, were flashed into the field of vision of the
participants. Researchers noticed an increase of correct answers when the words were
flashed into:
a. The right field of vision.
b. The left field of vision.
c. Flashing the words had no effect on the participants' answers.
d. Flashing the words caused an equal increase in correct answers.
4. Which of the following would be the best example of an insight problem?
a. A riddle
b. A long algebra problem
c. The Tower of Hanoi
d. Navigating using written directions
5. What is not an example covered in lecture of effective problem solving techniques?
a. Matrices
b. Diagrams
c. Analogies
d. Means end heuristic
e. Reconstruction