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1. What is measured by the paper folding test?
Answer: Spatial Imagery
2. What is mental imagery?
Answer: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
3. What is a component of psychosocial development?
Answer: Personality
4. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates casual inference?
Answer: The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the
motion of the moving car
5. Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process
of entrainment?
Answer: The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
, 6. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone
determines whether another person appears to be physically
attractive?
Answer: Frontal Cortex
7. What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
Answer: Action Potential
8. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
Answer: Axon
9. Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with
a substance abuse disorder?
Answer: Working Memory Tests
10. Which example shows how sensory memory results in the
persistence of vision when watching fireworks?
Answer: Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories
lasting fractions of a second.
11. Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?
Answer: Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math
problem.
12. Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process
contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture
material, according to Baddeley's model?
Answer: The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before
writing it down.
, 13. A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors
whose pictures were briefly presented upside down. What explains
how the episodic buffer enhances working memory in this scenario?
Answer: The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the
actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
14. How does activity-silent working memory help performance on
mental rotation problems?
Answer: Strengthening of connections between neurons helps
performance on mental rotation problems
15. How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words
presented sequentially?
Answer: The first word presented receives the person's full attention.
16. Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically significant semantic memories?
Answer: Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport
years ago.
17. A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that
will occur in one week. Which example illustrates the combined long-
term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization?
Answer: The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding
to categories of fish types.
18. What is a primary concern of behaviorism, according to John
Watson?
Answer: Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and
behavior
19. Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?
, Answer: Conceptual peg hypothesis
20. Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages?
Answer: Filter
21. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is
impossible without an image"?
Answer: People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
22. Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an
individual begin to understand mathematical reasoning?
Answer: Concrete Operational
23. Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one
aspect of a problem or object, according to Piaget?
Answer: Centration
24. Which stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is
represented by a child's ability to mentally represent objects and
events with words and images?
Answer: Preoperational
25. Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?
Answer: Crystallized
26. Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget?
Answer: Schemas
27. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
traceling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates the garden path model of parsing?
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1. What is measured by the paper folding test?
Answer: Spatial Imagery
2. What is mental imagery?
Answer: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
3. What is a component of psychosocial development?
Answer: Personality
4. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates casual inference?
Answer: The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the
motion of the moving car
5. Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process
of entrainment?
Answer: The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
, 6. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone
determines whether another person appears to be physically
attractive?
Answer: Frontal Cortex
7. What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
Answer: Action Potential
8. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
Answer: Axon
9. Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with
a substance abuse disorder?
Answer: Working Memory Tests
10. Which example shows how sensory memory results in the
persistence of vision when watching fireworks?
Answer: Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories
lasting fractions of a second.
11. Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?
Answer: Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math
problem.
12. Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process
contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture
material, according to Baddeley's model?
Answer: The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before
writing it down.
, 13. A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors
whose pictures were briefly presented upside down. What explains
how the episodic buffer enhances working memory in this scenario?
Answer: The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the
actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
14. How does activity-silent working memory help performance on
mental rotation problems?
Answer: Strengthening of connections between neurons helps
performance on mental rotation problems
15. How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words
presented sequentially?
Answer: The first word presented receives the person's full attention.
16. Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically significant semantic memories?
Answer: Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport
years ago.
17. A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that
will occur in one week. Which example illustrates the combined long-
term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization?
Answer: The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding
to categories of fish types.
18. What is a primary concern of behaviorism, according to John
Watson?
Answer: Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and
behavior
19. Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?
, Answer: Conceptual peg hypothesis
20. Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages?
Answer: Filter
21. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is
impossible without an image"?
Answer: People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
22. Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an
individual begin to understand mathematical reasoning?
Answer: Concrete Operational
23. Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one
aspect of a problem or object, according to Piaget?
Answer: Centration
24. Which stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is
represented by a child's ability to mentally represent objects and
events with words and images?
Answer: Preoperational
25. Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?
Answer: Crystallized
26. Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget?
Answer: Schemas
27. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
traceling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates the garden path model of parsing?
