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Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky
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Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky P a g e 1 | 249 1 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 Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky P a g e 2 | 249 2 Type: conceptual Answer: b 5. Cognition does NOT involve . a. reflexes b. mental activities c. perceiving d. understanding Page: 6 Type: conceptual Answer: a 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 Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky P a g e 3 | 249 3 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 down into 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 Type: conceptual Answer: c Test Bank for Cognition 6th Edition by Radvansky P a g e 4 | 249 4 12. A person trying to understand complex events by breaking them down into their components is using . a. fragmentation b. reductionism c. a parsing approach d. distillation Page: 7 Type: applied Answer: b 13. Who said, “I think, therefore I am”? a. Rene Descartes b. William James c. Aristotle d. Immanuel Kant Page: 7 Type: factual Answer: a 14. Empirical observations are those that . a. rely on observation, experimentation, or measurement b. characterize an entire set of research data c. are conducted in a field setting outside the laboratory d. compare people of different ages at a given moment in time Page: 9 Type: conceptual Answer: a 15. The philosophy that observation is to be the basis for much of science is . a. empiricism b. rationalism c. structuralism d. functionalism Page: 9The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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