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What is mental imagery? -
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ANSWER The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
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What is a component of psychosocial development? - ANSWER Personality
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A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beauti
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ful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? -
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OANSWER The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the motion of the moving c
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ar
Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entrainment? -
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ANSWER The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
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Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether another perso
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n appears to be physically attractive? - ANSWER Frontal Cortex
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What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? - ANSWER Action Potential
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Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - ANSWER Axon
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Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder?
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- ANSWER Working Memory Tests
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Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching f
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ireworks? - O
,ANSWER Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a s
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econd.
Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would contribute to effective executio
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n of a mental math problem? - ANSWER Numbers are held in short-
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term memory and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solvi
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ng the math problem.
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Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process contributes to a student's sh
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ort-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's model? -
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ANSWER The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before writing it down.
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A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose pictures were briefly presen
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ted upside down. What explains how the episodic buffer enhances working memory in this scen
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ario? - ANSWER The episodic buffer connects with long-
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term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
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How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems? -
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ANSWER Strengthening of connections between neurons helps performance on mental rotation
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problems
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How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially? -
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ANSWER The first word presented receives the persons full attention.
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Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant s
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emantic memories? - O O
ANSWER Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
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A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will occur in one week. Which ex
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ample illustrates the combined long-
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term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization? -
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,ANSWER The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to categories of fish t
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ypes.
A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a bakery. Which example sho
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ws the interaction between the deep processing strategies of generation and self-reference? -
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ANSWER The person creates flashcards for the names of the pastries, pairing each with an esti
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mate of how appetizing the pastry appears.
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A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most have not heard of. Which pro
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cess occurs when the person tries to remember how they learned that fact? -
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Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in which participants played a
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gambling game on a computer and were later shown a modified video of themselves cheating.
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What did this experiment reveal about false confessions? -
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ANSWER Participants confessed to cheating after being shown the modified video, even though
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they did not recall cheating indicating the power of suggestive questioning and tactics
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Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? -
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ANSWER A person remembers graduating from law school
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What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? -
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ANSWER Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
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Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? -
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ANSWER Conceptual peg hypothesis
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Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattended messages? -
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ANSWER Filter
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, Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without an image"? -
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ANSWER People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
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Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to understand
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mathematical reasoning? - ANSWER Concrete Operational
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Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a problem or object acco
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rding to Piaget? - ANSWER Centration
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Which stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is represented by a child's ability to me
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ntally represent objects and events with words and images? - ANSWER Preoperational
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Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience? - ANSWER Crystalized
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Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget? - ANSWER Schemas
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A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traceling down the hills were beauti
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ful." Which cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing? -
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OANSWER The child changes their mind from the subject being the car to the hills
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A student reads these two sentences: A dog was running. It slipped and fell. which thought proc
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ess is an example of an anaphoric inference? -
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ANSWER The student infers that the word "it" refers to the dog
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Why is establishing common ground important to conversations? -
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ANSWER It aids in having an engaging discussion
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Which property of words contributes to the word frequency effect? -
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ANSWER how often a word is used within a language
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