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COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR TEST
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS. 2025/2026

QUESTION: What is the CNS? - ANSWER-Brain and spinal cord

QUESTION: What controls behaviors? - ANSWER-Brain

QUESTION: What is Biological Assumption 2? - ANSWER-Genetic makeup is a product of evolution

QUESTION: What is evolution? - ANSWER-Slow process of genetic change

What is the cognitive approach? - ANSWER-Study of how mind processes information

QUESTION: What is the computer analogy? - ANSWER-Mind is an information processor like a computer

QUESTION: What determines behaviour in the cognitive approach? - ANSWER-How information is
processed

,QUESTION: What is an application of the cognitive approach? - ANSWER-Cognitive behavioural therapy
for mental health disorders

QUESTION: What is Sensory Memory? - ANSWER-First part of memory system for stimuli from
environment.

QUESTION: What is Short-term Memory? - ANSWER-Temporary store lasting up to 30 seconds.

QUESTION: What is Maintenance Rehearsal? - ANSWER-Repeating information to keep it in STM.

QUESTION: What is Long-term Memory? - ANSWER-Potentially permanent memory store.

QUESTION: What is the duration of LTM? - ANSWER-May last up to a lifetime.

QUESTION: What is the capacity of SM stores? - ANSWER-Very high.

QUESTION: What is the capacity of STM? - ANSWER-Limited to 5-9 items of information.

QUESTION: What is the Magic Number 7? - ANSWER-STM capacity of 7 plus or minus 2.

QUESTION: What is the capacity of LTM? - ANSWER-Practically unlimited.

, QUESTION: What is Encoding? - ANSWER-Process of transforming information into memory.

QUESTION: What is the Encoding process for STM? - ANSWER-Acoustic and visual.

QUESTION: What is the Encoding process for LTM? - ANSWER-Semantic.

QUESTION: What is the reason for forgetting information in LTM? - ANSWER-Lack of appropriate cues.

QUESTION: What is the reason for keeping information in STM for longer? - ANSWER-Maintenance
rehearsal.

QUESTION: What is the encoding in STM? - ANSWER-Acoustic

QUESTION: What is the encoding in LTM? - ANSWER-Semantic

QUESTION: What is the main difference between encoding in STM and LTM? - ANSWER-STM is mainly
acoustic, LTM is mainly semantic.

QUESTION: What is recall? - ANSWER-Retrieving information from memory without assistance

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