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Ed Psych Ch 8 & 9

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

People have a tendency to seek and use information that supports what they already think. This is known as...

a)

Overconfidence bias

b)

Hindsight bias

c)

Belief persistence

d)

Confirmation bias

2.

When you draw general conclusions from specific information, what kind of reasoning is this?

a)

Deductive

b)

Inductive

c)

Reductive

d)

Conjunctive

3.

Which are examples of executive function?

a)

Goal-setting

b)

Flexibility

c)

Counter-factual thinking

d)

Self-control

4.

What is theory of mind?

a)

The ability to recognize that other people have thoughts and feelings

b)

The ability to imagine that other people are capable of misunderstanding or having false beliefs

c)

The ability to think about one's own mind as a thing that creates knowledge

d)

All of the above

5.

"Explicit memory," or the ability to recall an event, word, specific fact, etc, is called...

a)

Procedural memory

b)

Declarative memory

6.

"Implicit memory," remembering intuitively how to do a thing like riding a bicycle, is called...

a)

Procedural memory

b)

Declarative memory

7.

According to the dual-process model, adolescents struggle in making decisions because...

a)

they don't benefit from either cognitive system

b)

they only benefit from the experiential cognitive system

c)

they only benefit from the analytical cognitive system

d)

they only benefit from the reflective cognitive system

8.

What are the five steps in the creative process?

a)

Empathize - define - ideate - prototype - test

b)

Forming - storming - norming - performing - adjourning

c)

Identify - research - plan - implement - examine

d)

Preparation - incubation - insight - evaluation - elaboration

9.

What are obstacles to problem solving

a)

Fixation

b)

Lack of motivation

c)

Inadequate emotional control

d)

Peer pressure

10.

Being unable to solve a new problem because you are stuck on a previous strategy is called what?

(a)  

11.

Strategies and rules-of-thumb that help you solve problems (like eliminating answers on a multiple choice test question) are called what?

(a)  

12.

Which of these is a step in problem-solving?

a)

Frame the problem

b)

Develop a strategy

c)

Evaluate the solution

d)

Reflect over time

13.

Applying previous experiences and knowledge to learning or problem solving in a new situation is called...

(a)  

14.

True or false: mindfulness has a positive impact on a person's critical thinking ability

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Do experts make better teachers?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

It depends

16.

What is the encoding specificity principle?

a)

When we reconstruct information, we fit it into information that already exists in our minds

b)

Recall is better for items at the beginning and end of lists than in the middle

c)

Associations formed at the time of learning tend to help with retrieval

d)

Forgetting happens because other information is interfering with retrieving the information desired

17.

Which processes contribute to encoding?

a)

Deep processing

b)

Outlining

c)

Rehearsal

d)

Summarizing

18.

Which contributes to the growth of a child's cognitive resources?

a)

Nature

b)

Nurture

c)

Both

d)

Neither

19.

The most important factor in the shift from behaviorism to cognitive psychology was the invention of what?

(a)  

20.

The model of learning that emphasizes that children manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it is called...

a)

the information-processing approach

b)

the levels of processing theory

c)

the Atkinson-Shiffrin model

d)

the Wheaton recurrence