TEST BANK FOR: For Cognition 6th Edition By Mark H. Ashcraft Latest Update Graded A+

,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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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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h1 Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive
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Science Chapter 3:
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Chapter 4: Attention
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Chapter 5: Short-Term Working
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Memory Chapter 6:
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h1 Remembering Chapter 7: Knowing h1 h1 h1




Chapter 8: h1 Using Knowledge in the Real
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h1 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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h1 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 h1

b. mind science h1

c. cognitive studies h1

d. mind studies h1

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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 h1

b. late 1950s h1

c. late 1850s h1

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 h1

c. complex decision making h1 h1

d. mental processes h1

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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
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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,
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thinking, and understanding is
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a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience h1

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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 revolution
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b. after Aristotle h1

c. after Descartes h1

d. before any of these people or events
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Type: conceptual
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Answer: d
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8. Reductionism is . h1

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 .
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a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
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b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval
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c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
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d. representative of the real world h1 h1 h1 h1

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Type: conceptual
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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 h1 h1 h1 h1 h1 h1 h1

b. the research lacks sufficient precision h1 h1 h1 h1

c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group h1 h1 h1 h1 h1 h1

d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their components
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applied
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Answer: a
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11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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b. acquires an air of confidence h1 h1 h1 h1

c. has ecological validity h1 h1

d. no longer is basic science h1 h1 h1 h1

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