PSY30008 - THE COGNITIVE
PERSPECTIVE 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
TRUE or FALSE
The cognitive self-regulation perspective suggests that all decisions are made
consciously - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
The cognitive self-regulation perspective consists of an elaborate web of decisions,
some of which are explicit, but far more of them occur outside awareness.
TRUE or FALSE
Although the cognitive perspective gained full force in the 1970s, many of its
themes were foreshadowed by George Kelly's work. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
,Although the cognitive perspective emerged as a major force in the 1970s, many of
its themes were foreshadowed years earlier by George Kelly
TRUE or FALSE
Cognitive theorists view people as implicit scientists who try to predict the world. -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Cognitive theorists (Kelly included) view people as implicit scientists, surrounded
by more information than can be used. People impose order to the information but
only use partial information to make inferences about the rest. [this conserves
mental resources].
TRUE or FALSE
Schemas are quite general and do not contain information about specific cases. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
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,Schemas are mental organisations of information (Knowledge structures / roughly
categories). Sometimes the categories are explicit, but sometimes only implicit.
However, SCHEMAS can include many kinds of elements, including perceptual
images, abstract knowledge, emotion qualities, and information about time
sequence
TRUE or FALSE
Exemplars are the idealized best members of categories. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
PROTOTYPES captures the idealised best member of the category.
EXEMPLARS provide information about a more general sense of what the
category is
TRUE or FALSE
Prototypes may be viewed either as actual "best members" of categories or as
idealized "best members" of categories. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
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, A sense of the category as a whole, is captured in an idealized best member of the
category, often called its PROTOTYPE.
TRUE or FALSE
Some theories state that schemas do not have an organizing quality - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔FALSE
Theories about schemas differ, but all of them treat schemas as having an
organizing quality which integrates meaning.
TRUE or FALSE
In the absence of a schema, an event would be nothing more than a series of
random occurrences with no integrated meaning. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Schemas are like the glue that holds bits of information together and they're used to
recognize new experiences and identify new events quickly.
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PERSPECTIVE 2025/2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
TRUE or FALSE
The cognitive self-regulation perspective suggests that all decisions are made
consciously - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
The cognitive self-regulation perspective consists of an elaborate web of decisions,
some of which are explicit, but far more of them occur outside awareness.
TRUE or FALSE
Although the cognitive perspective gained full force in the 1970s, many of its
themes were foreshadowed by George Kelly's work. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
,Although the cognitive perspective emerged as a major force in the 1970s, many of
its themes were foreshadowed years earlier by George Kelly
TRUE or FALSE
Cognitive theorists view people as implicit scientists who try to predict the world. -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Cognitive theorists (Kelly included) view people as implicit scientists, surrounded
by more information than can be used. People impose order to the information but
only use partial information to make inferences about the rest. [this conserves
mental resources].
TRUE or FALSE
Schemas are quite general and do not contain information about specific cases. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
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,Schemas are mental organisations of information (Knowledge structures / roughly
categories). Sometimes the categories are explicit, but sometimes only implicit.
However, SCHEMAS can include many kinds of elements, including perceptual
images, abstract knowledge, emotion qualities, and information about time
sequence
TRUE or FALSE
Exemplars are the idealized best members of categories. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔FALSE
PROTOTYPES captures the idealised best member of the category.
EXEMPLARS provide information about a more general sense of what the
category is
TRUE or FALSE
Prototypes may be viewed either as actual "best members" of categories or as
idealized "best members" of categories. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
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, A sense of the category as a whole, is captured in an idealized best member of the
category, often called its PROTOTYPE.
TRUE or FALSE
Some theories state that schemas do not have an organizing quality - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔FALSE
Theories about schemas differ, but all of them treat schemas as having an
organizing quality which integrates meaning.
TRUE or FALSE
In the absence of a schema, an event would be nothing more than a series of
random occurrences with no integrated meaning. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔TRUE
Schemas are like the glue that holds bits of information together and they're used to
recognize new experiences and identify new events quickly.
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