,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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9780205991655
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TABLE OF CONTENTS t1 t1
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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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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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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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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d. mid-1940s
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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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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
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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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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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
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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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11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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RADVANSKY ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10: 0205991653, ISBN-13:
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9780205991655
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TABLE OF CONTENTS t1 t1
Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction
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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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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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a. cognitive science t1
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2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
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a. early 1970s t1
b. late 1950s t1
c. late 1850s t1
d. mid-1940s
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Type:
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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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c. complex decision making t1 t1
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
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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
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7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked
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a. after the cognitive revolution t1 t1 t1
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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
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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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11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it
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