Question 1

The rare genetic disorder that is characterized by normal verbal abilities but severe deficits in spatial reasoning is called

Accepted Answer

A)  Wernicke's aphasia. 
B)  Huntington's disease. 
C)  Williams syndrome. 
D)  Parkinson's disease. 
A)  Wernicke's aphasia. 
B)  Huntington's disease. 
C)  Williams syndrome. 
D)  Parkinson's disease. C

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of babbling?

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A)  "Mommy, pick me up." 
B)  "This! Me, this!" 
C)  "Ba-ba-ba-pa-pa." 
D)  "Nooooo!" 
A)  "Mommy, pick me up." 
B)  "This! Me, this!" 
C)  "Ba-ba-ba-pa-pa." 
D)  "Nooooo!" C

Question 3

In cognitive psychology, a prototype is the

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A)  example of a concept that is unlike any other example. 
B)  single feature common to all members of a category. 
C)  kind of memory distortion in which all features of an object are blended together. 
D)  best example of a concept that fits a particular category. 
A)  example of a concept that is unlike any other example. 
B)  single feature common to all members of a category. 
C)  kind of memory distortion in which all features of an object are blended together. 
D)  best example of a concept that fits a particular category. D

Question 4

Once you reach the autonomous phase of skill acquisition, you

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A)  have to concentrate even harder to avoid making errors. 
B)  seem to perform without steady concentration. 
C)  still make frequent errors, but they are rarer than before. 
D)  have accrued one thousand hours of practice. 
A)  have to concentrate even harder to avoid making errors. 
B)  seem to perform without steady concentration. 
C)  still make frequent errors, but they are rarer than before. 
D)  have accrued one thousand hours of practice.

Question 5

Cognitive scientists typically measure reaction times in response to visual stimuli in order to investigate

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A)  stages of skill acquisition. 
B)  mental processing time. 
C)  characteristics of mental imagery. 
D)  strategies for categorizing concepts. 
A)  stages of skill acquisition. 
B)  mental processing time. 
C)  characteristics of mental imagery. 
D)  strategies for categorizing concepts.

Question 6

A child who is developing normally will most likely acquire telegraphic speech at _______ years of age.

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A)  one to two 
B)  two to three 
C)  three to four 
D)  four to five 
A)  one to two 
B)  two to three 
C)  three to four 
D)  four to five

Question 7

All of the following are examples of the cocktail party effect except:

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A)  You are sitting across from a friend in a coffee shop, looking her in the eye and nodding as she speaks, but you are really listening to the man at the next table describing a car accident. 
B)  You are in the soccer stadium watching a game as everyone around you cheers, but you manage to hear the announcer explain a penalty on the field. 
C)  All of your friends are singing "Happy Birthday" to you, but you pay particular attention to the loud soprano voice in the back of the room. 
D)  As you wait in a theater for a movie to begin, you tune out all of the chatter around you while you focus on a text message that has just arrived from your cousin. 
A)  You are sitting across from a friend in a coffee shop, looking her in the eye and nodding as she speaks, but you are really listening to the man at the next table describing a car accident. 
B)  You are in the soccer stadium watching a game as everyone around you cheers, but you manage to hear the announcer explain a penalty on the field. 
C)  All of your friends are singing "Happy Birthday" to you, but you pay particular attention to the loud soprano voice in the back of the room. 
D)  As you wait in a theater for a movie to begin, you tune out all of the chatter around you while you focus on a text message that has just arrived from your cousin.

Question 8

A friend who is learning English says things like "I am go to come home after class." He is struggling with the _______ of the language.

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The answer of A friend who is learning English says...

Question 9

Use the following to answer questions :
Refer to the graph below
  
-In the face of the evidence in the graph, confirmation bias might contribute to the persistence of a person's belief that there is a connection between a full moon and strange events because the person would

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A)  continue to take into account strange events that happen both around the time of the full moon and at other times in the lunar cycle. 
B)  pay attention to strange events only if they coincide with a full moon. 
C)  frame the strange events that occur around the time of the full moon as being stranger than they actually are. 
D)  say that he never believed there to be such a connection, anyway. 
A)  continue to take into account strange events that happen both around the time of the full moon and at other times in the lunar cycle. 
B)  pay attention to strange events only if they coincide with a full moon. 
C)  frame the strange events that occur around the time of the full moon as being stranger than they actually are. 
D)  say that he never believed there to be such a connection, anyway.

Question 10

The concept of the availability heuristic is illustrated when you

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A)  choose Pepsi because you like the logo better than the Coke logo. 
B)  are asked to decide on the winner of a competition, and you arbitrarily choose the person that you think you know better. 
C)  decide that it would be safer to fly rather than drive to your vacation destination, given all of the recent media coverage of plane crashes. 
D)  always choose the route that is different from the last route you took when deciding what route to take while driving. 
A)  choose Pepsi because you like the logo better than the Coke logo. 
B)  are asked to decide on the winner of a competition, and you arbitrarily choose the person that you think you know better. 
C)  decide that it would be safer to fly rather than drive to your vacation destination, given all of the recent media coverage of plane crashes. 
D)  always choose the route that is different from the last route you took when deciding what route to take while driving.

Question 11

Use the following to answer questions :
Refer to the graphs below
   
Participants in a study were asked to examine pairs of drawings of three-dimensional objects in which the members of each pair were shown in different positions. The graphs above compare the time required to mentally rotate objects up to 180 degrees in two dimensions (plane of paper) and in three dimensions (depth of paper).
-The results show that

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A)  participants had more success rotating the objects in the plane of paper than in the depth of paper. 
B)  in general, it takes slightly longer to mentally rotate objects in the depth of paper than in the plane of paper. 
C)  the more degrees of rotation that were required to line up two images, the more time participants needed to complete the task. 
D)  there is no observable difference in mental processing time for the two tasks. 
A)  participants had more success rotating the objects in the plane of paper than in the depth of paper. 
B)  in general, it takes slightly longer to mentally rotate objects in the depth of paper than in the plane of paper. 
C)  the more degrees of rotation that were required to line up two images, the more time participants needed to complete the task. 
D)  there is no observable difference in mental processing time for the two tasks.

Question 12

The framing effect in decision making is achieved by

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A)  altering the way information is presented to a person to make him or her more or less likely to choose one option over the other. 
B)  reducing the amount of time that a person has to make a decision. 
C)  restricting the number of options a person has. 
D)  expanding the number of options a person has. 
A)  altering the way information is presented to a person to make him or her more or less likely to choose one option over the other. 
B)  reducing the amount of time that a person has to make a decision. 
C)  restricting the number of options a person has. 
D)  expanding the number of options a person has.

Question 13

The concept of change blindness is illustrated when you

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A)  enter a room and everyone stops what they are doing and looks at you. 
B)  struggle to pay attention to your homework because you are so tired. 
C)  are so absorbed in a book that you don't notice when your roommate enters the room. 
D)  are so focused on what your professor is saying in class that you neglect to take notes. 
A)  enter a room and everyone stops what they are doing and looks at you. 
B)  struggle to pay attention to your homework because you are so tired. 
C)  are so absorbed in a book that you don't notice when your roommate enters the room. 
D)  are so focused on what your professor is saying in class that you neglect to take notes.

Question 14

Apes have demonstrated the most compelling evidence of their ability to use language by

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A)  learning to vocalize limited numbers of words. 
B)  developing their own gestures to refer to objects. 
C)  exhibiting deep comprehension of abstract concepts. 
D)  producing novel combinations of words. 
A)  learning to vocalize limited numbers of words. 
B)  developing their own gestures to refer to objects. 
C)  exhibiting deep comprehension of abstract concepts. 
D)  producing novel combinations of words.

Question 15

The cognitive process of assessing information to select a course of action among several alternatives is called _______. One aspect of this process, called _______, is the cognitive process of forming an opinion or making an evaluation by comparing possible actions.

Accepted Answer

A)  decision making; framing 
B)  judgment; framing 
C)  anchoring; judgment 
D)  decision making; judgment 
A)  decision making; framing 
B)  judgment; framing 
C)  anchoring; judgment 
D)  decision making; judgment

Question 16

At a nursing home, you meet a patient who has extreme difficulty producing speech. He talks only in a labored manner. This patient likely has damage to _______ in the left frontal lobe.

Accepted Answer

The answer of At a nursing home, you meet a...

Question 17

A cognitive scientist is investigating how people conceptualize certain activities and is collecting interview data regarding prototypes related to sports. Which of the following would the scientist would find most relevant to the investigation?

Accepted Answer

A)  A subject reporting that football comes to mind first when asked to think about sports. 
B)  A subject defining a sport as a competitive athletic practice, but noting that there are exceptions. 
C)  A subject arguing that games like chess and poker should be recognized as sports. 
D)  A subject saying that she considers soccer and hockey to be closely related sports. 
A)  A subject reporting that football comes to mind first when asked to think about sports. 
B)  A subject defining a sport as a competitive athletic practice, but noting that there are exceptions. 
C)  A subject arguing that games like chess and poker should be recognized as sports. 
D)  A subject saying that she considers soccer and hockey to be closely related sports.

Question 18

Which of the following situations best demonstrates the anchoring effect?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stacy is trying to sell the house she purchased several years ago, but she refuses any offer that is less than 120 percent of the price she originally paid. 
B)  Johann spends more on a new computer than he planned to because he selected his desired model online and then decided to add a number of features. 
C)  Marcia declines to purchase auto insurance beyond the legally required minimum because she has never been involved in a car accident. 
D)  Ronald feels that he got a terrific bargain on his new car by paying 20 percent less than the listed manufacturer's suggested retail price. 
A)  Stacy is trying to sell the house she purchased several years ago, but she refuses any offer that is less than 120 percent of the price she originally paid. 
B)  Johann spends more on a new computer than he planned to because he selected his desired model online and then decided to add a number of features. 
C)  Marcia declines to purchase auto insurance beyond the legally required minimum because she has never been involved in a car accident. 
D)  Ronald feels that he got a terrific bargain on his new car by paying 20 percent less than the listed manufacturer's suggested retail price.

Question 19

You order a salad, with dressing on the side, from a tall waiter in a white shirt. Several minutes later, a short waiter in a light blue shirt brings you a salad with dressing on top and you say angrily, "I specifically asked you to put the dressing on the side!" In confusing the two waiters, you have demonstrated _______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of You order a salad, with dressing on...

Question 20

Damage to Wernicke's area in the brain leads to an aphasia characterized by

Accepted Answer

A)  fluent speech, which may be garbled. 
B)  difficulty in learning a second language. 
C)  difficulty in speaking, but not in understanding, words. 
D)  declining language function near the end of life. 
A)  fluent speech, which may be garbled. 
B)  difficulty in learning a second language. 
C)  difficulty in speaking, but not in understanding, words. 
D)  declining language function near the end of life.

The rare genetic disorder that is characterized by normal verbal abilities but severe deficits in spatial reasoning is called

Which of the following is an example of babbling?

In cognitive psychology, a prototype is the

Once you reach the autonomous phase of skill acquisition, you

Cognitive scientists typically measure reaction times in response to visual stimuli in order to investigate

A child who is developing normally will most likely acquire telegraphic speech at _______ years of age.

All of the following are examples of the cocktail party effect except:

A friend who is learning English says things like "I am go to come home after class." He is struggling with the _______ of the language.

Use the following to answer questions : Refer to the graph below -In the face of the evidence in the graph, confirmation bias might contribute to the persistence of a person's belief that there is a connection between a full moon and strange events because the person would

The concept of the availability heuristic is illustrated when you

The framing effect in decision making is achieved by

The concept of change blindness is illustrated when you

Apes have demonstrated the most compelling evidence of their ability to use language by

The cognitive process of assessing information to select a course of action among several alternatives is called _. One aspect of this process, called _, is the cognitive process of forming an opinion or making an evaluation by comparing possible actions.

At a nursing home, you meet a patient who has extreme difficulty producing speech. He talks only in a labored manner. This patient likely has damage to _______ in the left frontal lobe.

A cognitive scientist is investigating how people conceptualize certain activities and is collecting interview data regarding prototypes related to sports. Which of the following would the scientist would find most relevant to the investigation?

Which of the following situations best demonstrates the anchoring effect?

Damage to Wernicke's area in the brain leads to an aphasia characterized by

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The rare genetic disorder that is characterized by normal verbal abilities but severe deficits in spatial reasoning is called

Which of the following is an example of babbling?

In cognitive psychology, a prototype is the

Once you reach the autonomous phase of skill acquisition, you

Cognitive scientists typically measure reaction times in response to visual stimuli in order to investigate

A child who is developing normally will most likely acquire telegraphic speech at _______ years of age.

All of the following are examples of the cocktail party effect except:

A friend who is learning English says things like "I am go to come home after class." He is struggling with the _______ of the language.

Use the following to answer questions : Refer to the graph below -In the face of the evidence in the graph, confirmation bias might contribute to the persistence of a person's belief that there is a connection between a full moon and strange events because the person would

The concept of the availability heuristic is illustrated when you

The framing effect in decision making is achieved by

The concept of change blindness is illustrated when you

Apes have demonstrated the most compelling evidence of their ability to use language by

The cognitive process of assessing information to select a course of action among several alternatives is called _______. One aspect of this process, called _______, is the cognitive process of forming an opinion or making an evaluation by comparing possible actions.

At a nursing home, you meet a patient who has extreme difficulty producing speech. He talks only in a labored manner. This patient likely has damage to _______ in the left frontal lobe.

A cognitive scientist is investigating how people conceptualize certain activities and is collecting interview data regarding prototypes related to sports. Which of the following would the scientist would find most relevant to the investigation?

Which of the following situations best demonstrates the anchoring effect?

Damage to Wernicke's area in the brain leads to an aphasia characterized by

Introduction: Principles of Psychology

Psychology As a Science

The Neuroscience of Behavior

Genes, Environment, and Behavior

Developmental Psychology

Sensation and Perception

Consciousness

Learning

Memory

Intelligence

Motivation and the Regulation of Behavior

Emotions, Stress, and Health

Personality

Social Psychology

Clinical Psychology

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The cognitive process of assessing information to select a course of action among several alternatives is called _. One aspect of this process, called _, is the cognitive process of forming an opinion or making an evaluation by comparing possible actions.