A Mainly Courtly Final16 December 2000330 total pointsThe Boy, the Goat, and the Swamp9.00 FINAL EXAM YOUR NAME_____________________ INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 9.00 Introduction to Psychology A Mainly Courtly Final 16 December 2000 330 total points “Arthur, the good King of Britain, whose prowess teaches us that we, too, should be brave and courteous, held a rich and royal court …….” That is the beginning of a 12th century Romance by Chretien de Troyes entitled “Yvain or The Knight with the Lion” I am using Yvain as the cover story. PLEASE NOTE: As on the midterm, the story is just the story, not the content of this exam. If you think that the story is confusing you, please ask and we will explain the meaning of any question. We are not trying to be tricky. Write your answers on the exam. Use the back of pages if needed. Good luck. 1. (15 pts) The story has an odd start. The knights and ladies at the feast are a bit offended when King Arthur goes off to take a nap. Several knights are gathered outside the king’s chamber and they discuss matters. “Perhaps” says Sir Sagremor, “our tales of adventures are not sufficient and he has gone off to dream about more exciting quests”. “No” says Sir Dodinel, “He has only been asleep for an hour and a half. He would not have had a dream in that time.” a) Is it possible that Arthur would have had a dream in that time? (“yes” or “no” will do) b) What would you estimate the probability of having had a dream to be? Briefly explain your answer? c) Assuming that he did not remember having a dream when he woke up, how could you have tested your hypothesis (Using the tools available to in a 21st century sleep lab and not a 12th century castle.) 2. (5) Sir Calogrenant (That name sounds like a diet aide) begins to tell a story. The queen hears him from the next room and comes to listen. No one sees her at first but when Calogrenant does see her, he leaps to his feet (because that is what you do when the queen arrives). Sir Kay (who is “very quarrelsome, mean, sarcastic, and abusive”) accuses Calogrenant of being a show-off and of being someone who just wants to make everyone else look bad. The queen says “Sir Kay, no harm is done. None of you saw me. You are committing the fundamental attribution error”. SCORE p1 ____ of 15 p2 ____ of 25 p3 ____ of 20 p4 ____ of 30 p5 ____ of 25 p6 ____ of 25 p7 ____ of 20 p8 ____ of 25 p9 ____ of 25 p10____ of 25 p11____ of 25 p12____ of 25 p13____ of 25 p14____ of 0 p15____ of 25 TOTAL 16 December 2002 page 1 of 169.00 FINAL EXAM YOUR NAME_____________________ INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Is the queen correct about the fundamental attribution error? a) She could be correct because Kay is showing a tendency to attribute behaviors to dispositional qualities while underrating the role of the situation. b) She could be correct because Kay is showing a tendency to think badly of an individual (other than oneself). c) She is wrong because the fundamental attribution error refers to the tendency to overestimate the probability of highly salient events. d) She is wrong because the fundamental attribution error involves assuming that humans (or other animals) are “blank slates”. e) She is wrong because no fundamentals were attributed here at all. f) She is wrong because monarchy is wrong. Long live the revolution! 3. (10) Having calmed Kay, the queen commands Calogrenant to tell his story. He says that he was traveling through a dark wood filled with thorns and pits and the sounds of dangerous beasts. He was happy, therefore, to find a castle where he could stay for the night and happier still to find that it contained “a very fair and gentle maid”. He really likes her. This happens A Lot in this story. Every time a knight comes out of the dangerous wild woods and meets a girl, she is described as lovely and gentle and the best maid in the world and so forth. Now, it seems unlikely that all of young women in this part of the world were of above average beauty. Why do the knights keep falling in love with every well-born girl that they see? There are LOTS of answers to this. Pick one and defend it with two pieces of concrete evidence from this course. 4. (10) Calogrenant is looking for an adventure and so he is directed to a clearing in the woods where there is a basin of water and a perforated stone. If you toss the water on the stone Stuff Happens. So, he does this, of course, and there is a HUGE storm: “the heavens so break loose that from more than fourteen directions the lightning blinded my eyes, and all at once the clouds let fall snow and rain and hail”. He gets struck by lightning. Fortunately, for him, this does not kill him and fortunately for us, he receives exactly the dose of electricity that we might apply if we were giving him electro-convulsive shock (ECS) or electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). He is knocked to the ground. When he gets up, he sees the basin and the stone. Does he throw water on the stone again? Why or why not? (Be sure your answer uses SOMETHING from the course). 16 December 2002 page 2 of 169.00 FINAL EXAM YOUR NAME_____________________ INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 5. (5) Whatever else may happen to him, this ECT experience could be therapeutic if he suffered from a) dissociation b) multiple-personality disorder c) dementia d) depression e) aphasia f) microcephaly g) a & b h) all of the above i) none of the above 6. (5) After the storm has passed, a large, well-armed knight appears and knocks him down with a big lance so that poor Calogrenant was seeing stars – not real stars, but the sort you might see if you were knocked hard on the head. Why does he see stars? a) The blow mechanically stimulated the neurons of the retina and this activity is interpreted as “light” of some sort by the visual system. b) The blow produces abnormal activity in the visual system. This causes “antidromal” (backward) activation of the photoreceptors from electrical activity in the brain and the retina. Thus, instead of light producing electrical activity, you get electrical activity producing light (photon release). This light is then seen in the usual manner. c) The blow mechanically stimulated the central visual system (e.g. visual cortex) and activity in the visual system can be interpreted as “light” of some sort by the brain. d) The