Cognitive Wk 3-4 Quiz

What is the first stage of perception in the perception process?

• Selection

• Organization

• Interpretation

• Consciousness

Which law of grouping in Gestalt psychology explains how humans naturally perceive stimuli as organized patterns and objects?

• The Law of Closure

• The Law of Figure and Ground

• Law of Similarity

• Law of Proximity

What is the capacity to learn from experience, using metacognitive processes to enhance learning, and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment called?

• Memory

• Intelligence

• Perception

• Attention

According to the three-stratum model of intelligence, what does Stratum I include?

• Various broad abilities

• Accumulated knowledge and vocabulary

• Single general intelligence

• Many narrow, specific abilities

What does fluid ability refer to in the three-stratum model of intelligence?

• Learning and memory processes

• Visual and auditory perception

• Speed and accuracy of abstract reasoning

• Accumulated knowledge and vocabulary

What does Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences propose?

• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment

• Intelligence is the capacity to learn from experience

• Intelligence comprises a hierarchy of cognitive abilities comprising three strata

• Intelligence comprises 3 aspects: creative, analytical, and practical

What are the 4 functions of attention?

• Signal detection and vigilance, Search, Selective Attention, Memory

• Search, Selective Attention, Divided Attention, Memory

• Signal detection and vigilance, Search, Selective Attention, Divided Attention

• Signal detection and vigilance, Search, Divided Attention, Memory

What is the perceptual process that refers to perceiving objects as having constant shape, size, and color regardless of changes in perspective, distance, and lighting?

• Perceptual Constancy

• Auditory perceptual constancies

• Visual perceptual constancies

• Distance Constancy

What is the means by which we process a limited amount of information from the enormous amount of information available through our senses, our stored memories, and other cognitive processes called?

• Perception

• Memory

• Attention

• Consciousness

Fluid ability is accumulated knowledge and vocabulary (Cattell, 1971). 

• True

• False