Test Bank for Cognition (6th Edition) by Mark H. Ashcraft |ISBN: 9780205985807| Guide 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 t1 t1




Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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t1 Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive
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Science 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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t1 Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering
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t1 Chapter 7: Knowing t1 t1




Chapter 8: t1 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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d. mind studies t1

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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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b. late 1950s t1

c. late 1850s t1

d. mid-1940s
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factual
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3. Memory does NOT involve
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a. a mental storage system
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d. mental processes t1

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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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5. Cognition does NOT involve
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a. reflexes
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c. perceiving
d. understanding
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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
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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b. after Aristotle t1

c. after Descartes t1

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8. Reductionism is . t1

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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9. Ecological validity means . t1 t1

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 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1

c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
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d. representative of the real world t1 t1 t1 t1

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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 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1

b. the research lacks sufficient precision t1 t1 t1 t1

c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group t1 t1 t1 t1 t1 t1

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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d. no longer is basic science t1 t1 t1 t1

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