Practice test 0HV60
Multiple choice
Cognition
1) According to Dell’s theory of speech errors
A) slips of the tongue tend to involve words from different syntactic categories.
B) slips of the tongue occur because we pay too much attention to word choice.
C) slips of the tongue occur because people focus too closely on the pragmatics of language.
D) slips of the tongue occur because each sound can be activated by several different words.
2) Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists are most likely to agree on which of the following
points?
A) Researchers must emphasize the external stimuli in the environment.
B) Theorists must try to explain higher mental processes in terms of mental events.
C) Most thought processes can be explained in terms of people's observable responses to
stimuli.
D) Researchers need to have detailed definitions about how a concept will be measured.
3) Imagine that you are taking an art history course. You're thinking about a painting that you
liked, especially because the artist captured a woman's facial expression very skillfully. You
remember that you saw this woman's entire face, but then you check the painting. Actually,
part of her face is hidden from view. What concept in the description of schemas is most
similar to this incident?
A) the pragmatic approach
B) a script
C) an implicit-memory task
D) boundary extension
4) In the discussion of working memory, why did Teasdale and his colleagues (1995) conclude
that daydreaming is processed by the central executive?
A) People could generate a sequence of random numbers more successfully if they were
not daydreaming.
B) People daydreamed more creatively when they were instructed to use their central
executive.
C) People reported that they could not daydream in vivid detail if they were simultaneously
engaged in another task that required the central executive.
D) People typically used their sensory receptors for this task, so the central executive was
automatically activated.
5) Suppose that a psychologist loans you an art book and says that the book includes some
interesting ambiguous figure-ground pictures. You should expect to see
A) a picture in which a specific region is the central figure one moment, but this region
becomes the background the next moment.
B) a picture that has at least two subjective contours.
C) a random arrangement of black-and-white figures.
D) a photo of real-life figures, rather than black-and-white shapes.
6) Suppose that a study examines whether people have trouble creating a mental image of a
famous painting while they are watching a cartoon on television. You would expect to find
that
A) watching the cartoon actually enhances your accuracy when you use your visuospatial
sketchpad to create a mental image of a painting.
Multiple choice
Cognition
1) According to Dell’s theory of speech errors
A) slips of the tongue tend to involve words from different syntactic categories.
B) slips of the tongue occur because we pay too much attention to word choice.
C) slips of the tongue occur because people focus too closely on the pragmatics of language.
D) slips of the tongue occur because each sound can be activated by several different words.
2) Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists are most likely to agree on which of the following
points?
A) Researchers must emphasize the external stimuli in the environment.
B) Theorists must try to explain higher mental processes in terms of mental events.
C) Most thought processes can be explained in terms of people's observable responses to
stimuli.
D) Researchers need to have detailed definitions about how a concept will be measured.
3) Imagine that you are taking an art history course. You're thinking about a painting that you
liked, especially because the artist captured a woman's facial expression very skillfully. You
remember that you saw this woman's entire face, but then you check the painting. Actually,
part of her face is hidden from view. What concept in the description of schemas is most
similar to this incident?
A) the pragmatic approach
B) a script
C) an implicit-memory task
D) boundary extension
4) In the discussion of working memory, why did Teasdale and his colleagues (1995) conclude
that daydreaming is processed by the central executive?
A) People could generate a sequence of random numbers more successfully if they were
not daydreaming.
B) People daydreamed more creatively when they were instructed to use their central
executive.
C) People reported that they could not daydream in vivid detail if they were simultaneously
engaged in another task that required the central executive.
D) People typically used their sensory receptors for this task, so the central executive was
automatically activated.
5) Suppose that a psychologist loans you an art book and says that the book includes some
interesting ambiguous figure-ground pictures. You should expect to see
A) a picture in which a specific region is the central figure one moment, but this region
becomes the background the next moment.
B) a picture that has at least two subjective contours.
C) a random arrangement of black-and-white figures.
D) a photo of real-life figures, rather than black-and-white shapes.
6) Suppose that a study examines whether people have trouble creating a mental image of a
famous painting while they are watching a cartoon on television. You would expect to find
that
A) watching the cartoon actually enhances your accuracy when you use your visuospatial
sketchpad to create a mental image of a painting.
