Psy504 spring 2020 and other past papers

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PSY504 2020 Final Term Papers

Paper 1

Diff between ego-centrism and animistic thinking?

Categorization reduces complexity in environment?Explain

Discuss result of experiment conducted by Schneider & Fisic, Schder &Shiffin, Shiffic & Dumiais &Shiffin & Schneider?

Association priming?

Implication of exp conducted by Rat-cliff and Mckoon on associative primary?

Adaption paradigm? Who conduct exp on it?

People diff in term of ability to imagine? Explain briefly.

Top down processing?

Two prominent British psychologist who argue that our behaviour is influence by large units of knowledge organize into schema, also name such theory?

Psy504 other Past Papers

Paper 1

my psy504 paper 

What is meant by the regularity and productivity of a language?  (1.5+1.5)

Imagine you have learned a poem while sitting in a garden then you again learned it while sitting in your classroom. Explain the type of learning strategy which you have adopted in above mentioned scenario.

Discuss Warren’s experiment (1970) on phoneme restoration effect in detail.

Discuss the role played by chunking in increasing the capacity of the short term memory.

Kiran was asked to explain the concept of what a cat is. She successfully presented the concept, emphasizing that her memory for the word “cat” is permanent. Identify and justify the type of long term memory operational here. (1+2)

When experts say that for better understanding analyze story structure, what does this mean?

Elaborate the process of Phonemes with the help of examples.

Discuss John Anderson’s work on activation model of working memory in detail.

How does fan effect phenomenon differ from the concept of interference? Explain in detail.

Discuss the mnemonic techniques of “Speed Reading” in detail.

Paper 2

current paper

Psy504 cognitive psychology.

23aug2016

1. Diff between egocentrism and animalistic thinking?

2. Categorization reduces complexity in environment?Explain

3. Discuss result of experiment conducted by Schneider & Fisic, Schder &Shiffin, Shiffic & Dumiais &Shiffin & Schneider?

4. Association priming?

5. Implication of exp conducted by Ratcliff and Mckoon on associative primary?

6. Adaption paradigm? Who conduct exp on it?

7. People diff in term of ability to imagine? Explain

8. Top down processing?

9. Two prominent British psychologist who argue that our behaviour is influence by large units of knowledge organize into schemas, also name such theory?

Paper 3

40 mcqs

10 subjective questions

1- Centralizing by Jean Piaget. (3)

2- Effect of interference on memory. (3)

3- How Norman viewed attention, early selection or late selection? (3)

4- Names of two British psychologists who gave schema theories. Name one such theory. (3)

5- One question I don’t remember was about positive and negative words and psychologist’s name was Mayer. (3)

6- Dual code theory. (5)

7- Functions of dendrites, axon and synapse. Where are they found in body? (5)

8- Explain schema with house example. (5)

9- Two grammar rules given by Noam Chomsky. (5)

10- Computer chess program MAPP by Simon and Gilmartin. (5)

Paper 4

1. Define review according to study methods. (3)
2. Define subsidiary task used in multimode theory (3)
3. Productivity and regularity definitions (3)

4. Which one is better for human memory, recall or recognition? Explain (5)
5. Write down names of study methods and elaborate one method (5)
6. Write features of template matching model and feature analyzing model in pattern recognition (2.5+2.5)
7. Examples of importance of imagery (5)

Paper 5

.Write features of template matching model and feature analyzing model in pattern recognition (2.5+2.5)
2. write a note on mental maps with reference to hierarchical structure of images?
3. events are expressed by special type of schema? what is the name? also describe other types
4. write about fan effect network?
5. write about structure and functions of neurons?
6. describe sensorimotor stage of Piaget theory?
7. what is encoding variability
8. what do we study? explain in the sense of cognitive psychology?
mcqs=56

Paper 6

Analyze the dynamics of short term and long term memory and enlist some similarities and differences of both. (3)
Analyze what is the significance of review among studying method? (3)
According to Piaget, what is animalistic thinking? (3)
Arsalan is newly appointed as researcher at a neuro diagnostic laboratory. He has been assigned a research project on the study of neural processes. To help him, briefly explain three neuro psychological methods to study neural processes. (3)
What are the main features of template matching and feature analysis model with reference to pattern recognition? (2.5+2.5)
Enlist all brief concepts that we study while learning about long term memory. (5)
Write a brief note on Barlett’s schema theory? (5)
Write a note on the significance of imagery with examples? (5)