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Course Introduction
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) explores the design, evaluation, and

implementation of interactive computing systems for human use, focusing on how

people interact with technology in various contexts. The course covers fundamental

principles of usability, user-centered design, prototyping, and evaluation techniques.

Students will examine the cognitive, social, and ethical aspects of user experience, as

well as emerging trends such as ubiquitous computing, mobile interfaces, and

accessibility. Through hands-on projects and critical analysis, learners will gain practical

skills in designing and assessing technologies that facilitate effective and meaningful

human-computer interactions.

Recommended Textbook
Cognitive Psychology Connecting Mind Research and Everyday Experience 5th Edition by E. Bru

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 Chapter 1: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
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Q1) How is the term mind used in this statement: "If you put your mind to it, I'm sure you
can solve that math problem"?
A) The mind as involved in memory
B) The mind as problem solver
C) The mind as used to make decisions or consider possibilities
D) The mind as valuable, something that should be used
Answer: B

Q2) By comparing reaction times across different tasks, Donders was able to conclude
how long the mind needs to perform a certain cognitive task. Donders interpreted the
difference in reaction time between the simple and choice conditions of his experiment
as indicating how long it took to
A) perceive the stimulus.
B) process the stimulus.
C) attend to the stimulus.
D) make a decision about the stimulus.
Answer: D

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 Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Q1) The study of the physiological basis of cognition is known as
A) cognitive psychology.
B) neuroscience.
C) cognitive neuroscience.
D) neuropsychology.
Answer: C

Q2) Which of the following is similar to early ideas scientists had about the brain's
physical properties?
A) A tree
B) A web
C) A pipe
D) A river
Answer: B

Q3) Which organ is unique in that it appears to be static tissue?

A) Heart
B) Brain
C) Lungs
D) Kidney
Answer: B

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 Chapter 3: Perception
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Q1) The results of Gauthier's "Greeble" experiment illustrate
A) that neurons specialized to respond to faces are present in our brains when we are
born.
B) that training a monkey to recognize the difference between common objects can
influence how the monkey's neurons fire to these objects.
C) an effect of experience-dependent plasticity.
D) that our nervous systems remain fairly stable in different environments.
Answer: C

Q2) What is a scene schema?

A) Knowledge of what a scene typically contains
B) Knowledge of the meaning of a scene
C) Knowledge of the events leading to a scene
D) Knowledge of why a scene should be visualized
Answer: A

Q3) Which of the following would have the most semantic regularities?
A) a forest
B) a skyscraper
C) a shopping mall
D) a toll booth
Answer: C

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 Chapter 4: Attention
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Q1) Which of the following attention model components produces two levels of output?
A) Treisman's filter
B) Treisman's attenuator
C) MacKay's dictionary unit
D) Broadbent's detector

Q2) Research on the use of cell phones while driving indicates that
A) the negative effect can be decreased by using "hands-free" units.
B) the problem with cell phones is that attention is distracted from the task of driving by
the need to hold the phone and drive with one hand.
C) the main effect of cell phone use on driving safety can be attributed to the fact that
attention is used up by the cognitive task of talking on the phone.
D) the public perception that using a cell phone while driving poses a significant risk to
drivers' safety is, in fact, incorrect.

Q3) Saccadic eye movement is a ______________.

A) rapid, jerky movement from one fixation to the next
B) shifting of attention from one place to another by moving the eyes
C) reaction to physical properties of stimulus
D) brief pause on another person's face

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 Chapter 5: Short-Term and Working Memory
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Q1) If the brain can be considered a busy factory that takes in and processes
information, which of the following would occur during the synaptic state in Stokes's
working memory concept?
A) The factory machines would consume electricity.
B) The factory machines would produce electricity.
C) Machines would shut down for material resupply.
D) An alarm would sound signaling system overload.

Q2) When light from a flashlight is moved quickly back and forth on a wall in a darkened
room, it can appear to observers that there is a trail of light moving across the wall, even
though physically the light is only in one place at any given time. This experience is an
effect of memory that occurs because of
A) a visual delay effect.
B) echoic memory.
C) persistence of vision.
D) top-down processing.

Q3) What is the relationship between digit span and chunking? Give an example of how
both concepts apply in a single memory task.

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 Chapter 6: Long-Term Memory: Structure
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Q1) Work with brain-injured patients reveals that ___________ memory does not
depend on conscious memory.
A) declarative and non-declarative
B) personal semantic and remote
C) semantic and episodic
D) implicit and procedural

Q2) Semantic memory is to ________ as episodic memory is to ________.

A) images; sounds
B) implicit; explicit
C) knowing; remembering
D) fragile; permanent

Q3) The coding of a stimulus into memory refers to which of the following?
A) Consciousness
B) Location
C) Process
D) Form

Q4) Explain how our episodic memories are linked to the future. Give an example that
illustrates the adaptive role of memory in this context.

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 Chapter 7: Long-Term Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and

Consolidation
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Q1) Which of the following is a key factor in the memory-enhancing capacity of sleep?
A) Classification
B) Elaboration
C) Distraction
D) Reconsolidation

Q2) Research shows that ___________ does not improve reading comprehension
because it does not encourage elaborative processing of the material.
A) organization
B) highlighting
C) making up questions about the material
D) feedback

Q3) Your book explains that brief episodes of retrograde amnesia (e.g., the traumatic
disruption of newly formed memories when a football player takes a hit to the head and
can't recall the last play before the hit) reflect
A) a failure of memory consolidation.
B) disrupted long-term potentiation.
C) temporary post-traumatic stress disorder.
D) Korsakoff's syndrome.

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 Chapter 8: Everyday Memory and Memory Errors
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Q1) According to the ______ approach to memory, what people report as memories is
based on what actually happened plus additional factors such as other knowledge,
experiences, and expectations.
A) event-specific
B) source
C) constructive
D) misinformation

Q2) Stanny and Johnson's "weapons focus" experiment, investigating memory for crime
scenes, found that
A) the presence of a weapon enhances memory for all parts of the event.
B) the presence of a weapon has no effect on memory for the event.
C) the threat of a weapon causes people to focus their attention away from the weapon
itself.
D) the presence of a weapon hinders memory for other parts of the event.

Q3) A script is a type of schema that also includes knowledge of

A) a sequence of actions.
B) what is involved in a particular experience.
C) information stored in both semantic and episodic memory.
D) items appropriate to a particular setting.

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 Chapter 9: Conceptual Knowledge
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Q1) Present a hierarchical model for a living thing or artifact, moving from specific to
general. Include at least three levels and be sure to include both sensory and functional
properties.

Q2) In the context of cognitive psychology and conceptual models, a tool would be
classified as a(n) ________.
A) example
B) spoke
C) artifact
D) node

Q3) According to the typicality effect

A) objects in a category have a family resemblance to one another.
B) objects that are not typical stand out and so are more easily remembered.
C) items that are high in prototypicality are judged more rapidly as being in a group.
D) we remember typical objects better than nontypical objects.

Q4) Which of the following represents a basic level item?

A) Musical instrument
B) Guitar
C) Rock guitar
D) Paul McCartney's bass guitar

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 Chapter 10: Visual Imagery
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Q1) Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect. This
patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to
report the objects he saw. His behavior shows
A) neglect manifests itself in perception only, not in imagery.
B) neglect occurred in imagery such that some objects in the plaza were never reported.
C) neglect involved both the left and right sides of the visual field, with an apparently
"random" agnosia of different components of the fields.
D) neglect always occurred on the left side of the image, with "left side" being
determined by the direction in which the patient imagined he was positioned.

Q2) Behaviorists branded the study of imagery as being unproductive because

A) some people have great difficulty forming visual images.
B) visual images vary in detail.
C) visual images are invisible to everyone except the person experiencing them.
D) the imageless thought debate was unresolved.

Q3) Compare and contrast spatial and propositional representation. Give an example of
each based on the same stimulus.

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 Chapter 11: Language
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Q1) According to the situation model of text processing,
A) people create a mental representation of what the text is about in terms of
information about phrases, sentences, and paragraphs.
B) people create a mental representation of what the text is about in terms of people,
objects, locations, and events.
C) it will take longer to understand a story that involves a complex series of situations.
D) people draw inferences about what is happening in a story by considering both local
and global connections.

Q2) Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a
distinctive way of speaking. His statement, "Afraid you will be," violates which property of
the English language?
A) Language involves the use of a lexicon.
B) Coding is required for language.
C) Language symbols must have high discriminability.
D) Language has a structure that is governed by rules.

Q3) Identify the types of meaning dominance in language. Give examples of each to
support your thinking.

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 Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Q1) Amber lives in a housing development between two parallel streets that both
connect to a freeway. She usually takes the street to the south when heading
southbound on the freeway to work, but that street is closed for repairs for three months.
Amber takes the street to the north during that time. After the street to the south is
re-opened, she continues to take the street to the north, even though it is a slightly
longer route. Continuing to take the street to the north represents
A) a single dissociation.
B) a source problem.
C) a mental set.
D) convergent thinking.

Q2) In the Tower of Hanoi problem, the _________________ state involves having
three discs stacked on the left peg, with the middle and right pegs empty.
A) transitory
B) goal
C) intermediate
D) initial

Q3) What did Newell and Simon mean when stating that problem solving is a search? Be
sure to use concepts and terms from the text to support your answer.

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 Chapter 13: Judgment, Decisions, and Reasoning
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Q1) Given its definition, expected utility theory is most applicable to deciding whether to
A) break up or stay involved with a current girlfriend.
B) go out for junior varsity hockey or junior varsity basketball.
C) buy first-class or coach tickets for a spring break trip.
D) take astronomy or geology as a physical science elective course.

Q2) Consider the following conditional syllogism:

Premise 1: If I study, then I'll get a good grade.
Premise 2: I got a good grade.
Conclusion: Therefore, I studied.
This syllogism is
A) valid.
B) skewed.
C) invalid.
D) robust.

Q3) Explain the meaning of the statement, "Justice is what the judge had for breakfast."
What cognitive factors are implicated in this perspective? How might this impact our
legal system, and what strategies could be employed to address it?

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