,TEST BANK FOR COGNITION, 6TH EDITION, MARK H. ASHCRAFT, GABRIEL A.
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RADVANSKY ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10: 0205991653, ISBN-13:
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9780205991655
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TABLE OF CONTENTS r1 r1
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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r1 Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
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r1 Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Chapter 5: Short-Term Working Memory
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r1 Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering
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r1 Chapter 7: Knowing r1 1r
Chapter 8: r1 Using Knowledge in the Real
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World Chapter 9: Language
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Chapter 10: Comprehension: Written and Spoken
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Language Chapter 11:
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Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Chapter 13: Cognition and Emotion 470
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Chapter 14: Cognitive Development (online chapter)
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,Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky
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1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called
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a. cognitive science r1
b. mind science r1
c. cognitive studies r1
d. mind studies r1
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a
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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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a. early 1970s r1
b. late 1950s r1
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d. mid-1940s
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Answer: b
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3. Memory does NOT involve
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a. a mental storage system
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b. acquiring information r1
c. complex decision making r1 r1
d. mental processes r1
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Answer: c
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4. The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is
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a. cognition
b. memory
c. planning
d. forecasting
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Answer: b
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5. Cognition does NOT involve
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a. reflexes
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c. perceiving
d. understanding
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a
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, 6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking,
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and understanding is
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a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience r1
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Answer: c
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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b. after Aristotle r1
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d. before any of these people or events r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
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Answer: d
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8. Reductionism is . r1
a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences
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b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
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c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal
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materials, e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
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d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components
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Answer: d
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9. Ecological validity means . r1 r1
a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
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b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrievalr1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
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d. representative of the real world r1 r1 r1 r1
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Answer: d
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10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity, the
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person is complaining that .
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c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their components
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11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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a. is pragmatic r1
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c. has ecological validity r1 r1
d. no longer is basic science r1 r1 r1 r1
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RADVANSKY ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10: 0205991653, ISBN-13:
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9780205991655
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TABLE OF CONTENTS r1 r1
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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r1 Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
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r1 Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Chapter 5: Short-Term Working Memory
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r1 Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering
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r1 Chapter 7: Knowing r1 1r
Chapter 8: r1 Using Knowledge in the Real
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World Chapter 9: Language
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Chapter 10: Comprehension: Written and Spoken
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Language Chapter 11:
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r1 Reasoning
Chapter 12: Problem Solving
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Chapter 13: Cognition and Emotion 470
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Chapter 14: Cognitive Development (online chapter)
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,Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky
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1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called
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a. cognitive science r1
b. mind science r1
c. cognitive studies r1
d. mind studies r1
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a
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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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a. early 1970s r1
b. late 1950s r1
c. late 1850s r1
d. mid-1940s
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Type:
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factual
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Answer: b
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3. Memory does NOT involve
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a. a mental storage system
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b. acquiring information r1
c. complex decision making r1 r1
d. mental processes r1
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: c
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4. The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is
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a. cognition
b. memory
c. planning
d. forecasting
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: b
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5. Cognition does NOT involve
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a. reflexes
b. mental activities r1
c. perceiving
d. understanding
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: a
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, 6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking,
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and understanding is
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a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience r1
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: c
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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a. after the cognitive revolutionr1 r1 r1
b. after Aristotle r1
c. after Descartes r1
d. before any of these people or events r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: d
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8. Reductionism is . r1
a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences
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b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
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c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal
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materials, e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
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d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components
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Answer: d
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9. Ecological validity means . r1 r1
a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
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b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrievalr1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
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d. representative of the real world r1 r1 r1 r1
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Answer: d
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10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity, the
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person is complaining that .
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a. the research is not representative of real-world situations r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
b. the research lacks sufficient precision r1 r1 r1 r1
c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1
d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their components
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11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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a. is pragmatic r1
b. acquires an air of confidence r1 r1 r1 r1
c. has ecological validity r1 r1
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