Candidate Number
C8508
THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
BSc First Year Examination 2015
COGNITION IN CLINICAL CONTEXTS
SAMPLE PAPER
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C8508 Cognition in Clinical Contexts – SAMPLE PAPER
1.
The information-processing approach relies on an analogy between the mind
and:
a)
b)
c)
d)
2.
The Gestalt psychologists are most well known for their work on:
a)
b)
c)
d)
3.
Object recognition
Face recognition
Word recognition
Speech perception
A patient with visual agnosia is most likely to have difficulty:
a)
b)
c)
d)
5.
Organizational processes in perception
Adjustment to stressful perceptual situations
The development of thought processes as they influence perception
Issues of free will and personal responsibility
Prosopagnosia is a disorder of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
4.
Mechanical statue
Combustion engine
Computer
Telephone switchboard
Describing a key from memory
Seeing a key
Identifying an object as a key
Using the depth cues needed to insert a key into a lock
Which of the following is a particularly common form of synaesthesia?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Tasting words
Smelling sounds
Colour triggered by faces
Colours for letters and numbers
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6.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of synaesthesia?
a)
b)
c)
d)
7.
In dichotic listening tasks, participants were UNABLE to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
8.
Detect a tone played in the non-attended channel
Tell whether the non-attended channel contained speech or noise
Tell when the non-attended channel switched from a male to a female voice
Remember the contents of a message delivered in the non-attended
channel
Which of the following is a test of representational neglect?
a)
b)
c)
d)
9.
It runs in families
The experiences occur quickly
The associations are consistent over time
It is easy to switch on and off
Line bisection
Drawing a clock from memory
Cancellation tasks
Picture copying
Which of the following statements about hemispatial neglect is NOT true?
a) Neglect is a disorder of attention
b) Neglect is the same as being blind on the left side of space
c) People with neglect may show unconscious processing of stimuli presented
in their neglected field
d) Neglect can operate in object-centred coordinates as well as purely spatial
coordinates
10.
Which of these findings suggests that highly anxious people do NOT have a
bias to orient their attention to threatening material?
a) Highly anxious people show a stronger attentional bias to threat faces only
when these faces appear for a relatively long time
b) Spider phobic show an attentional bias to spider pictures only when these
pictures are presented quickly
c) The initial eye movements of highly anxious people to fear and threat faces
are quicker than low anxious individuals
d) Highly anxious people are vigilant for threat faces
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11. The term “schema” refers to:
a)
b)
c)
d)
A bottom up influence on information processing
A structured, ordered sequence of events
A bias in information processing
Generic information about situations / general rules that are typically
accurate
12. Which of the following is most associated with the logical failure of ignoring the
base rate?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Representative Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Framing effect
Loss aversion
13. Which of the following is NOT considered an “executive function”?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Planning
Visual perception
Multitasking
Set shifting
14. What is a typical problem that someone with working memory problems might
encounter?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Difficulty understanding a sentence
Difficulty recalling their wedding day
Difficulty copying a picture
Difficulty remembering a telephone number
15. What type of memory is most associated with our ability to remember
personally experienced events?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Semantic memory
Episodic memory
Implicit memory
Procedural memory
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16. Which task demonstrates intact procedural memory in amnesia?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Digit recall
Free recall
Word definition
Mirror tracing
17. Most people who develop Alzheimer-type dementia after the age of 65 have:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Family members with dementia
No family history of dementia
Genetic mutations in their family history
A history of head injury in their early adulthood
18. Syntax refers to:
a) The meanings of words and sentences
b) The meaning of word combinations
c) The sound structure of language
d) The rules of sentence construction
19. When a patient produces slow, laboured speech which lacks grammatical
structure, he is probably afflicted with:
a)
b)
c)
d)
20.
Broca's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia
Conduction aphasia
Cortical aphasia
Developmental dyslexia is associated not only with reading problems, but also
with:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Problems with nonword repetition
Problems remembering shapes and pictures
Low IQ
Early brain trauma
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21. Phineus Gage was reported to have an extreme change in personality,
including increased inappropriate and impulsive behaviour, after suffering a
traumatic accident that damaged his:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Hippocampus
Left cerebellum
Brain stem
Frontal lobes
22. Metaphysical Libertarianism is the philosophical position holding that:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Determinism does not preclude the existence of free will
Determinism is false and hence the existence of free will is possible
Behaviours, beliefs, and desires are fixed by genes and environment
Freedom pertains only to physical constraints and determinism is therefore
irrelevant
23. What are the 4 main features of a hot-cross-bun map in cognitive therapy?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Thoughts-feelings-behaviour-body sensations
Thoughts-actions-reasoning-goals
Talking-listening-looking-touching
Fear-anger-sadness-surprise
24. Attentional bias for food-related cues is generally NOT found in:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Obese children
Healthy-weight dietary unrestrictive adults
Anorexic patients
Bulimic patients
25. Which researchers proposed an influential model of executive functions?
a)
b)
c)
d)
O’Keefe & Nadel
Scoville & Milner
Norman & Shallice
Warrington & Weiskrantz
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