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Cognitive Skills

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which type of memory is responsible for holding information temporarily and actively processing it?

a)

Short-term memory

b)

Long-term memory

c)

Sensory memory

d)

Implicit memory

2.

Age range of sensory motor stage is

a)

7 to 11

b)

11 to 16

c)

Birth to 2

d)

2 to 7

3.

Which of the following wrote a theory on Cognitive development?

a)

Rousseau

b)

Piaget

c)

Bloom

d)

Bruner

4.

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of working memory ?

a)

Unlimited storage capacity

b)

Drawn on by a wide range of tasks

c)

Easily accessible

d)

Contents closely associated with the current focus of attention

5.

A group of participants has just completed a series of problems involving water jars. In each problem, the participants needed to fill the largest jar, pour from it once into the middle-sized jar, and then pour from the largest jar twice into the smallest jar. The participants are now given a new problem, which cannot be solved via this procedure. We would expect that the participants will:

a)

Quickly solve the new problem because they have had practice with a series of very similar problems

b)

Have difficulty with the new problem because they are now locked into the           procedure they had used successfully

c)

Behave just as participants who have no experience with water jar problems;         that is, there will be no effect of the prior training

d)

Try their already practiced procedure and, once they realize this procedure does not help them, they will show no effect of the prior training

6.

The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as:

a)

A single item

b)

About seven items

c)

About seven volumes

d)

Limitless

7.

What is Mnemonics?

a)

Strategy designed to help students improve their memory of important information

b)

Strategies used to listen in a concise way

c)

Strategies used to improve oral production.

8.

The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two is

a)

Long-term memory

b)

Short-term memory

c)

Procedural memory

d)

Sensory memory

9.

Which of the following are  qualities employers might look for when assessing your cognitive  ability during the hiring process:

a)

Recognizing patterns of events

b)

Analyzing problems and finding options

c)

Brainstorming

d)

All of the above

10.

The inability to stay focused on a task over a period of time without distractions is a weakness in which type of cognitive ability?

a)

Memory

b)

Attention

c)

Logic and reasoning

d)

Auditory processing

11.

Which of the following is NOT an example of cognitive skills?

a)

understanding written text

b)

deciphering a map

c)

eating a meal

d)

following directions 

12.

According to Piaget, the ability to use deductive logic, think abstractly and systematically solve problems emerges during the:

a)

Concrete Operational Stage

b)

Sensorimotor Stage

c)

Formal Operational Stage 

d)

Preoperational State 

13.

The following are all examples of metacognitive strategies except

a)
  1. Taking dictation while the someone speaks.

b)
  1. Critiquing

c)
  1. Evaluating Work

d)
  1. Predicting outcomes