EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY:
CHAPTER 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Cognitive Science - Correct Answers -The interdisciplinary study of thinking, language,
intelligence, knowledge, creation, and the brain.
Cognitive View of Learning - Correct Answers -A general approach that views learning
as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge.
Mirror Systems - Correct Answers -Areas of the brain that fire both during perception of
an action by someone else and when performing the action.
Domain-Specific Knowledge - Correct Answers -Info that is useful in a specific situation
and applies to a certain topic.
General Knowledge - Correct Answers -Info that is useful for a variety of situations.
Information Processing - Correct Answers -The human mind's activity of taking in,
storing, and using information.
Sensory Memory - Correct Answers -A system responsible for taking into account all the
information gathered from your senses and processes it so you can understand.
Perception - Correct Answers -Interpretation of sensory information.
Concept - Correct Answers -A category used to group similar events, ideas, objects or
people.
Defining Attribute - Correct Answers -Qualities that connect members of a group to a
specific concept.
Prototype - Correct Answers -A best example or best representative of a category.
Bottom-Up Processing - Correct Answers -Perceiving based on noticing similarities and
differences and assembling them into a recognizable pattern.
CHAPTER 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Cognitive Science - Correct Answers -The interdisciplinary study of thinking, language,
intelligence, knowledge, creation, and the brain.
Cognitive View of Learning - Correct Answers -A general approach that views learning
as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge.
Mirror Systems - Correct Answers -Areas of the brain that fire both during perception of
an action by someone else and when performing the action.
Domain-Specific Knowledge - Correct Answers -Info that is useful in a specific situation
and applies to a certain topic.
General Knowledge - Correct Answers -Info that is useful for a variety of situations.
Information Processing - Correct Answers -The human mind's activity of taking in,
storing, and using information.
Sensory Memory - Correct Answers -A system responsible for taking into account all the
information gathered from your senses and processes it so you can understand.
Perception - Correct Answers -Interpretation of sensory information.
Concept - Correct Answers -A category used to group similar events, ideas, objects or
people.
Defining Attribute - Correct Answers -Qualities that connect members of a group to a
specific concept.
Prototype - Correct Answers -A best example or best representative of a category.
Bottom-Up Processing - Correct Answers -Perceiving based on noticing similarities and
differences and assembling them into a recognizable pattern.
