Question 1

Which of the following statements regarding the corpus callosum is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) It is a large bundle of axon fibers. 
B) It becomes smaller in adolescence. 
C) Its change in adolescence improves the ability to process information. 
D) All of these are false.

Question 2

Martha states that "everyone is staring at my beetle brows" after her mother refuses to drive her to get her eyebrows waxed.Martha's belief is an example of what David Elkind calls the ________ of adolescence.

Accepted Answer

A) personal fable 
B) paranoid thinking 
C) imaginary audience 
D) delusions

Question 3

Which of the following has NOT been labeled by psychologists as a type of attention?

Accepted Answer

A) selective attention 
B) concentrated attention 
C) divided attention 
D) executive attention

Question 4

Tom always calls his grandfather when he wants some help figuring out a difficult problem in his life.Paul Baltes would say that Tom is seeking his grandfather's

Accepted Answer

A) practicality. 
B) provisional knowledge. 
C) wisdom. 
D) favor.

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a component of deliberate practice?

Accepted Answer

A) practice at an appropriate level of difficulty 
B) practice that involves corrective feedback 
C) practice that allows opportunities for repetition 
D) practice that allows opportunities to observe "super-experts" perform the skill

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a basic part of a neuron?

Accepted Answer

A) dendrite(s) 
B) axon 
C) cell body 
D) synapse

Question 7

Distinguish the characteristics of an expert from those of a novice.

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

Which of the following statements regarding IQ is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) If mental age is the same as chronological age,the person's IQ is 100. 
B) If mental age is above chronological age,the person's IQ is above 100. 
C) If mental age is below chronological age,we cannot calculate an IQ. 
D) If mental age is below chronological age,IQ is less than 100.

Question 9

Donnie,age 16,is able to understand that a poem has another,less literal meaning and that the words are actually referring to life choices instead of paths in a forest.Donnie is in Piaget's ________ stage of cognitive development.

Accepted Answer

A) sensorimotor 
B) preoperational thought 
C) concrete operations 
D) formal operations

Question 10

Reyna and her colleagues have proposed the fuzzy-trace theory dual-process model,which states that decision making is influenced by two cognitive systems operating in parallel: _____ thinking and ________ intuition.

Accepted Answer

A) realistic; gut 
B) analytical; gist-based 
C) executive; basic 
D) sustained; practical

Question 11

Jeremy takes a test that analyzes his responses in such areas as fluid reasoning,knowledge,quantitative reasoning,visual-spatial reasoning,and working memory.Jeremy has taken the

Accepted Answer

A) Big Five Personality Test. 
B) Stanford-Binet 5. 
C) WAIS 111. 
D) 1905 Scale.

Question 12

Lori and her group of "explorers" are given the whole term to create a "space alien." They have to describe their alien to parents,peers,and teachers on the last class day.They have no restrictions on the project,and they receive a group grade for creativity.According to research on creativity,which of the following is most likely?

Accepted Answer

A) The students won't put too much effort into the project because they will not receive individual grades. 
B) The students will likely be more creative in designing their alien,because they are not afraid of failing or getting it wrong. 
C) The students won't know how to do the project without a great deal of teacher support and direction. 
D) The students will only be successful if they are naturally artistic.

Question 13

The prefrontal cortex is primarily involved with

Accepted Answer

A) reasoning. 
B) decision making. 
C) self-control. 
D) All of these choices are correct.

Question 14

Neo-Piagetians focus on

Accepted Answer

A) strategies that children and adolescents use to process information. 
B) how fast children and adolescents process information. 
C) how children and adolescents divide problems into smaller steps. 
D) All of these choices are correct.

Question 15

Robbie Case,a leading proponent of the neo-Piagetian view believes that,to understand adolescents' cognitive development,it is critical to study their ability to hold information in

Accepted Answer

A) long-term memory. 
B) working memory. 
C) the sensory register of memory. 
D) None of these choices are correct.

Question 16

Which of the following is TRUE about research on the role of heredity in intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A) It shows that heredity is a weak influence on intelligence. 
B) It shows that heredity has a strong influence on intelligence. 
C) It has been done mainly using adoption studies. 
D) It has been done mainly using sibling studies.

Question 17

Which of the following statements regarding creativity is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

A) Creativity and intelligence are basically the same thing. 
B) Creative people are all intelligent. 
C) People will demonstrate creativity in all domains equally. 
D) None of these choices are correct.

Question 18

Expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life,that permits excellent judgment about important matters,is known as

Accepted Answer

A) wisdom. 
B) focused expertise. 
C) street-smarts. 
D) All of these choices are correct.

Question 19

Which statement is TRUE regarding the relationship between brain size and intelligence?

Accepted Answer

A) There is no relationship between brain size and intelligence. 
B) There is a moderate relationship between brain size and intelligence. 
C) There is a strong relationship between brain size and intelligence. 
D) Findings are inconclusive regarding the relationship between brain size and intelligence.

Question 20

Which of the following statements regarding neurogenesis is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) People can generate new brain cells throughout their lives. 
B) Researchers have documented neurogenesis in the hippocampus. 
C) Drugs,stress,and exercise may affect neurogenesis. 
D) Researchers have documented neurogenesis in the prefrontal cortex.

Exam 3: The Brain and Cognitive Development