A child reads the following incorrect sentence, “The car was travelling down the hills were beautiful.” Which cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing?

The child changes their mind from the subject being the car to the hills.

The child ignores the sentence structure and guesses the meaning.

The child focuses only on the word 'car' and disregards the rest.

The child reads the sentence without noticing any ambiguity.

A student reads these two sentences. A dog was running. It slipped and fell. Which thought process is an example of an anaphoric inference?

The student infers that the word “it” refers to the dog.

The student imagines the dog is brown.

The student thinks the dog will get up and run again.

The student wonders if the dog is hungry.

A child reads the following incorrect sentence, “The car was travelling down the hills were beautiful.” Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference?

The child infers that hills being beautiful is due to the motion of the moving car.

The child recognizes the grammatical error in the sentence.

The child ignores the meaning of the sentence.

The child focuses only on the word 'car'.

Why is establishing common ground important to conversations?

It aids in having an engaging discussion.

It prevents people from asking questions.

It ensures everyone agrees on everything.

Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entertainment?

The students both start speaking loudly and begin gesturing.

The students quietly read their textbooks without speaking.

The students ignore each other and work alone.

The students exchange notes without talking.

Which property of words contributes to the word frequency effect? _________.

How often a word is used within language.

The number of syllables in a word.

The emotional valence of a word.

The grammatical category of a word.

How does rotating shift work affect consciousness? _________

It can affect a person's sleep regulation, leading to insomnia and fatigue.

It improves memory retention and alertness.

It guarantees deeper and more restful sleep.

It has no impact on cognitive performance.

Which statement describes circadian rhythm in the sleep wake cycle of consciousness?

Circadian rhythms regulate the sleep wake cycle and impacts alertness.

Circadian rhythms only affect digestion and have no role in sleep.

Circadian rhythms are unrelated to any biological processes.

Circadian rhythms cause permanent insomnia in all individuals.

What does the Stroop interference test used to demonstrate a slower reaction time?

By displaying color words in different colored fonts.

By asking participants to solve math problems quickly.

By showing images of animals and asking for their names.

By playing different sounds and asking for the loudest one.

A kindergarten student is trying to solve a handheld maze, the student focuses on the last step of the maze, causing them to miss earlier steps. What process describes why the student has a difficult time discovering the first step required to solve the maze?

Fixation causes the student to focus too much on the last part of the maze and to overlook important steps at the beginning.

Reinforcement allows the student to easily identify all steps in the maze.

Generalization helps the student to skip unnecessary steps in the maze.

Retrieval practice ensures the student remembers every step in the maze.

Which of the following is an example of Newell and Simon’s approach to problem solving?

Using a computer program to simulate human problem solving

Relying solely on intuition to solve problems

Guessing answers without a systematic approach

Solving problems through trial and error only

Which example demonstrates the importance of how a problem statement is presented for effective problem solving?

An unclear problem statement leads to confusion and ineffective solutions.

A problem statement is always irrelevant to the solution process.

The way a problem is stated has no impact on problem solving.

Effective problem solving does not depend on the problem statement.

A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of ways to increase participation. Which scenario is based on the student’s use of analogical transfer?

The student uses strategies from a successful sports team to boost club participation.

The student asks teachers to require students to join the club.

The student increases club fees to make it more exclusive.

The student only invites their close friends to join the club.

A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They spend a week camping alone in the mountains and complete the song while in the wilderness. How can the musician’s solitude contribute to this creativity and solve the problem?

Solitude allows the musician to focus and find inspiration without distractions.

Solitude makes the musician feel more isolated and less creative.

Solitude causes the musician to forget their musical skills.

Solitude prevents the musician from finishing the song.

The relationship between open monitoring meditation and creativity is:

Open monitoring meditation is associated with increased creativity.

Open monitoring meditation decreases creativity.

Open monitoring meditation has no effect on creativity.

Open monitoring meditation is unrelated to cognitive processes.

Deductive reasoning governs such rules by:

applying general principles to reach specific conclusions

relying on intuition rather than logic

using random guesses to solve problems

starting with specific cases to form general rules

Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional reasoning tasks such as Wason 4 card problem?

People often fail to apply logical rules consistently in conditional reasoning tasks.

People always solve conditional reasoning tasks correctly.

Conditional reasoning tasks are unrelated to logical thinking.

Performance on these tasks is not influenced by the content of the problem.

Humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique affect when constructing our own environment because:

it aligns with the way our brains process angles and orientation.

it is the most energy-efficient way to build structures.

it is a cultural tradition passed down through generations.

it is required by most building codes.

Intentions influence mirror neurons by:

Activating them based on the perceived goal of an action

Suppressing their activity during observation

Causing them to fire only during self-initiated actions

Preventing them from responding to observed actions

According to the principles of the framing effect, how are group a and group b likely to respond to the community project when group a is told that 20 percent of the trees will be torn down and group b is told that 80 percent of the trees will be saved?

Group a will respond more negatively than group b, even though both groups receive the same information.

Group b will respond more negatively than group a, even though both groups receive the same information.

Both groups will respond the same way, since the information is identical.

Group a will be more supportive of the project than group b.

A student is in a study lounge watching a video for class and can fully focus on the video despite people chatting in the background and a clock loudly ticking. How does the study process different stimuli in order to focus on the desired task?

By using selective attention to focus on the video and ignore background noise.

By increasing the volume of all sounds equally.

By shutting down all sensory input except for vision.

By multitasking and processing all stimuli at once.

A person plans to attend a reception later that night and needs to select an outfit for the evening, which statement demonstrates an automatic decision for the person?

The person grabs the first outfit they see in their closet without thinking.

The person spends an hour considering different outfit combinations.

The person asks a friend for advice on what to wear.

The person checks the weather forecast before choosing an outfit.

Strayer and Johnston's research influenced the study of attention by demonstrating that:

divided attention impairs performance on tasks such as driving.

attention can be easily switched between tasks without any cost.

multitasking improves cognitive abilities.

attention is not affected by external distractions.

A researcher presents a video of a street intersection and asks the participants to count how many people walk through the intersection. Which example would demonstrate inattentional blindness when a limousine passes through the intersection?

Participants do not notice the limousine passing through the intersection.

Participants count the number of people incorrectly.

Participants notice the limousine and count the people.

Participants focus on the color of the cars instead of counting people.

A hiker walks along a trail looking for a spot for a picture, when an unseen snake hisses from the nearby woods. Which statement is true regarding the hiker’s ability to notice the snake?

The hiker is more likely to notice the snake because of the sudden sound.

The hiker will not notice the snake because it is unseen.

The hiker can only notice the snake if it is visible.

The hiker is less likely to notice the snake due to distraction.

Binding is important in attention because:

it allows the integration of features into a coherent perception

A traveler can attend to what the hotel’s concierge says about lunch options based on how loudly they are speaking while disregarding other verbal communication happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent’s model of attention used in this scenario?

By filtering information based on physical characteristics such as loudness

By focusing on the meaning of all conversations

By remembering every detail from the lobby

By ignoring the concierge entirely

Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching fireworks?

Seeing the trail of light after a firework explodes in the sky

Hearing the sound of fireworks long after they have ended

Smelling smoke from fireworks hours later

Feeling the vibration of fireworks in your chest

Which explanation explains how multiple forms of memory would contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?

Numbers are held in short term memory and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in the working memory when solving a math problem.

Numbers are only stored in long term memory and are not manipulated during mental math.

Working memory is not involved in mental math, only short term memory is used.

Mental math relies solely on visual memory and does not require manipulation of numbers.

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