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TEST BANK FOR COGNITION, 6TH EDITION, MARK H. ASHCRAFT, GABRIEL A. RADVANSKY, ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10: 0205991653, ISBN-13: 9780205991655 $35.48   Add to cart

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TEST BANK FOR COGNITION, 6TH EDITION, MARK H. ASHCRAFT, GABRIEL A. RADVANSKY, ISBN-10: 7, ISBN-13: 5807, ISBN-10: 3, ISBN-13: 1655 TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Chapter 3: Sensation and Percep...

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ISBN-10: 0205985807, ISBN-13: 9780205985807, ISBN-10: 0205991653, ISBN-13: 9780205991655



TABLE OF CONTENT


Chapter 1: Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction


Chapter 2: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Science


Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception


Chapter 4: Attention


Chapter 5: Short-Term Working Memory


Chapter 6: Learning and Remembering


Chapter 7: Knowing


Chapter 8: Using Knowledge in the Real World


Chapter 9: Language


Chapter 10: Comprehension: Written and Spoken Language


Chapter 11: Decisions, Judgments, and Reasoning


Chapter 12: Problem Solving


Chapter 13: Cognition and Emotion 470


Chapter 14: Cognitive Development (online chapter)

,Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky

1. The student of mental activity and thinking, broadly conceived, is called .
a. cognitive science
b. mind science
c. cognitive studies
d. mind studies
Page: 2
Type: conceptual
Answer: a

2. When did the cognitive revolution occur?
a. early 1970s
b. late 1950s
c. late 1850s
d. mid-1940s
Page: 2
Type: factual
Answer: b

3. Memory does NOT involve .
a. a mental storage system
b. acquiring information
c. complex decision making
d. mental processes
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: c

4. The mental process of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval is .
a. cognition
b. memory
c. planning
d. forecasting
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: b

5. Cognition does NOT involve .
a. reflexes
b. mental activities
c. perceiving
d. understanding
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: a




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, 6. The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, remembering, thinking, and
understanding is .
a. operations
b. mentalism
c. cognition
d. computational neuroscience
Page: 6
Type: conceptual
Answer: c

7. People first began wondering about how the mind worked .
a. after the cognitive revolution
b. after Aristotle
c. after Descartes
d. before any of these people or events
Page: 7
Type: conceptual
Answer: d

8. Reductionism is .
a. the method in which observers are carefully trained to report on inner sensations and experiences
b. the building blocks underlying the structure of the brain
c. the branch of experimental psychology that deals with human participants as they learn verbal materials,
e.g., items or stimuli composed of letters and/or words
d. attempting to understand a complex event by breaking the event down into its components
Page: 7
Type: conceptual
Answer: d

9. Ecological validity means .
a. the amount of experimental control the experimenter has over the important manipulations
b. acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval
c. attempting to break down complex events by breaking them down into their components
d. representative of the real world
Page: 7
Type: conceptual
Answer: d

10. If we hear a complaint that experimental psychology research lacks ecological validity, the person is
complaining that .
a. the research is not representative of real-world situations
b. the research lacks sufficient precision
c. the research lacks an appropriate comparison group
d. we are attempting to understand complex phenomena by breaking them downinto their components
Page: 7
Type: applied
Answer: a

11. If something is generalizable to real-world situations, it .
a. is pragmatic
b. acquires an air of confidence
c. has ecological validity
d. no longer is basic science
Page: 7




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