Question 1

Overproduction of synaptic connections is especially concentrated in the

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

Question 2

thought processes would be likened to the

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

Question 3

would be arguing that information processing

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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 4

Lorraine is being

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

Question 5

primary purpose of metacognition is to monitor and reason about

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

Question 6

stage of reflective judgment would Sue be displaying?

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

Question 7

Gains in reflective judgment are due to maturation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

dangerous behavior is best explained by the

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

Question 10

contrast to emerging adults, adolescents tend to engage in

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

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

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?

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

Question 13

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

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

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

Question 15

Geoff's statement provides an excellent example of

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

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