Complete Test Bank for Cognition, 6th Edition, Mark H. Ashcraft, Gabriel A. Radvansky.

TEST BANK
Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Mark H. Ashcraft

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TEST BANK

,Cognition 6th Edition by Mark H. Ashcraft
1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called .
a. cognitive science
b. mind science
c. cognitive studies
d. mind studies

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Type:
conceptual
Answer: a
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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
a. early 1970s
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b. late 1950s
c. late 1850s
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d. mid-1940s
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Type:
factual
Answer: b



3. Memory does NOT involve .
a. a mental storage system
b. acquiring information
c. complex decision making
d. mental processes

Page: 6

,Type:
conceptual
Answer: c



4. The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is .
a. cognition
b. memory
c. planning
d. forecasting

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Type:
conceptual
Answer: b
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5. Cognition does NOT involve .
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a. reflexes
b. mental activities
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c. perceiving
d. understanding

Page: 6

Type:
conceptual
Answer: a

, 6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving,
remembering, thinking, andunderstanding is .
a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience

Page: 6

Type:
conceptual
Answer: c
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked.
a. after the cognitive revolution
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b. after Aristotle
c. after Descartes
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d. before any of these people or events

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Type:
conceptual
Answer: d



8. Reductionism is .
a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and

experiences
b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain

c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they

learn verbal materials,e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its

components