Cognitive Psychology Questions
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A symbol represents a specific sight or sound, but an image may have a number of meanings.
Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists are most likely to agree on which of the following points? a) Most thought processes can be explained in terms of people's observable responses to stimuli, such as the movements of the tongue that occur when a person is trying to solve a problem. b) Theorists must try to explain higher mental processes in terms of mental events.c) Researchers need to have detailed definitions about how a concept will be measured. d) Researchers must emphasize the external stimuli in the environment.
Imaging is an effective way of thinking about concepts.
What is perception?a) Perception uses previous knowledge to gather and interpret the stimuli registered by the senses. b) Perception requires complex problem solving. c) Perception involves only unprocessed sensory information. d) Perception is the immediate registration of information by the sensory receptors.
Suppose that you are writing a paper about cognitive processes in elderly adults. Which of the following topics would be most relevant for your paper? a) Observations about their social interactions b) The effects of vitamin supplements on their activity level c) The relationship between their childhood experiences and current adjustmentd) Their ability to remember people's names
Metacognition occurs when you think about
The feature-analysis models a) can only explain letter recognition; they cannot account for the recognition of other two-dimensional visual stimuli such as triangles or squares. b) argue that each visual stimulus is unique, with no features in common with other visual stimuli.c) state that we differentiate among stimuli in terms of a limited number of specific characteristics. d) propose that each visual stimulus must be compared with an idealized representation of an entire stimulus in memory.
Daydreams and fantasies are forms of convergent thinking.
Benjamin Whorf proposed that our perceptions of the physical world affect the way our language develops.
The "aha" experience, or suddenly realizing the solution to a problem, is called
Working backwards is a common problem-solving strategy used by mystery writers who decide the ending then work backward to devise a plot that will lead to the desired conclusion.
The anchoring heuristic leads us to rely on information that is more prominent and easily recalled, while overlooking information that is available but less prominent.
One kind of rigidity in thinking is that people look for direct methods of problem solving and do not see solutions that may involve several steps.
Chairman is an example of a word that some people charge creates a gender stereotype in the English language.
Which had a higher success rate whole or partial report?
Noam Chomsky proposed that children inherit a mental program that enables them to learn grammar.
Which of the following statements best captures the scope of cognition? a) Cognition includes every internal experience that humans have.b) We use cognition when we store, transform, and use knowledge. c) Cognition primarily focuses on the higher mental processes, such as problem solving and decision making. d) Cognition is more concerned with visible actions, such as motor activities, than with activities that cannot be seen by an outside observer.
According to the introductory chapter in your textbook, the influence of cognitive psychology a) has been relatively weak, both within psychology and in other disciplines.b) has extended to areas outside psychology, such as political science. c) has not yet reached applied areas of psychology. d) has been limited primarily to areas related to education.
Thinking is the expression of ideas through symbols and sounds.
The identification of a complex arrangement of sensory stimuli is known as a) connectionism. b) recognition by components.c) object recognition. d) sensation.