Question 1

According to research done in the 1990s, Black children raised by White families had higher IQs than their White counterparts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Gains in reflective judgment are due to maturation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory, Anthony would be in what stage?

Accepted Answer

A)  Preoperational 
B)  Sensorimotor 
C)  Concrete Operational 
D)  Formal Operational

Question 4

primary purpose of metacognition is to monitor and reason about

Accepted Answer

A)  feeling. 
B)  problem solving. 
C)  others. 
D)  thinking.

Question 5

dangerous behavior is best explained by the

Accepted Answer

A)  personal fable. 
B)  imaginary audience. 
C)  metacognition. 
D)  satire.

Question 6

Which psychologist is credited with the development of a cultural approach to cognition?

Accepted Answer

A)  Howard Gardiner 
B)  Alfred Binet 
C)  Jean Piaget 
D)  Lev Vygotsky

Question 7

Lorraine is being

Accepted Answer

A)  hypothetically-deductive. 
B)  sarcastic. 
C)  metacognitive. 
D)  reductionist.

Question 8

stage of reflective judgment would Sue be displaying?

Accepted Answer

A)  Relativism 
B)  Multiple thinking 
C)  Dualistic thinking 
D)  Commitment

Question 9

recent study completed by Peng and Nisbett (1999) which focused on dialectical thinking found that what culture tended to promote this type of thinking more than others?

Accepted Answer

A)  American 
B)  Korean 
C)  German 
D)  Chinese

Question 10

Overproduction of synaptic connections is especially concentrated in the

Accepted Answer

A)  cerebellum. 
B)  occipital lobe. 
C)  frontal lobe. 
D)  corpus callosum.

Question 11

Geoff's statement provides an excellent example of

Accepted Answer

A)  mutual perspective taking. 
B)  metacognition. 
C)  social cognition. 
D)  conventional analyses.

Question 12

Mental operations performed by children in the concrete operational stage (age 7-11) are limited to what they can

Accepted Answer

A)  create themselves. 
B)  think and reason. 
C)  dream and fantasize. 
D)  experience directly.

Question 13

would be arguing that information processing

Accepted Answer

A)  compartmentalizes intelligence testing. 
B)  fails to consider the importance of attention. 
C)  loses sight of the interconnectedness of thought. 
D)  does not develop a strong metaphor for cognition.

Question 14

contrast to emerging adults, adolescents tend to engage in

Accepted Answer

A)  absolute performance. 
B)  socialized cognition. 
C)  dualistic thinking. 
D)  optimistic bias.

Question 15

thought processes would be likened to the

Accepted Answer

A)  genetics of your parents. 
B)  actions of a primate. 
C)  other people in your age category. 
D)  functions of a computer.

Exam 3: Cognitive Foundations