Test Bank for Cognition (6th Edition)by Mark H. Ashcraft & Gabriel A. Radvansky || ISBN: 9780205985807 ||All Chapters Verified| Newest Updated Version, Complete Guide, Already Graded A+

Test Bank for
Cognition (6th Edition) 6th Edition by Mark H.
Ashcraft & Gabriel A. Radvansky ||
ISBN: 9780205985807 ||All Chapters Verified|
Newest Updated Version,
Complete Guide, Already Graded A+

,TEST BANK FOR COGNITION, 6TH EDITION, MARK H. ASHCRAFT, GABRIEL
A. RADVANSKY ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10:
0205991653, ISBN-13: 9780205991655


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An
Introduction
Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and
Cognitive Science
Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
Chapter 4: Attention
Chapter 5: Short-Term
Working Memory
Chapter 6: Learning and
Remembering
Chapter 7: Knowing
Chapter 8: Using Knowledge in
the Real World
Chapter 9: Language
Chapter 10: Comprehension: Written and
Spoken Language
Chapter 11: Decisions, Judgments, and
Reasoning
Chapter 12: Problem Solving
Chapter 13: Cognition and Emotion 470
Chapter 14: Cognitive Development (online chapter)

,Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky

1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called .
a. cognitive science
b. mind science
c. cognitive studies
d. mind studies
Page: 2
Type: conceptual
Answer: a

2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
a. early 1970s
b. late 1950s
c. late 1850s
d. mid-1940s
Page: 2
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
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: b

5. Cognition does NOT involve .
a. reflexes
b. mental activities
c. perceiving
d. understanding
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: a

, 6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving,
remembering, thinking, and understanding is .
a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: c

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

9. Ecological validity means .
a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval
c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
d. representative of the real world
Page: 7
Type: conceptual
Answer: d

10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological
validity, the person is complaining that .
a. the research is not representative of real-world situations
b. the research lacks sufficient precision
c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group
d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their
components
Page: 7
Type:
applied
Answer: a

11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it .
a. is pragmatic
b. acquires an air of confidence
c. has ecological validity