20 Psychology Multiple Choice Questions.
1. Children in the concrete operational stage
A. move along a continuum of acquisition of logical concepts
B. continue to fail conservation tasks
C. master Piagets concrete operational tasks all at once.
D. Can think logically when dealing with abstract info
2. Research shows that assessments of ethnic comparisons indicate that ________ score the highest on intelligence tests.
a. Non latino whites
b. African Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. Latinos
3. ________ is/are the fraction of the variance in a population that’s attributed to genetics.
a. Environmental
b. Heritability
c. Scaffolding
d. Spatial intelligence
4. “what is the capital of Arizona? Is an example of a question that requires _______ because there is only one correct answer.
a. Brainstorming
b. Divergent thinking
c. Convergent thinking
d. Creativity
5. Children are born into the world with _______
a. Intelligence
b. Scientific reasoning
c. Creativity
d. Language acquisition device
6. In substage 6, toddlers can solve object permanence problems involving invisible displacement because they have developed the capacity to
a. Construct mental representations
b. Understand dual representation
c. Carry out means end action sequences
d. Engage in goal directed behavior
7. The definition of “the ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences.
a. Thinking
b. Scientific reasoning
c. Intelligence
d. Critical thinking
8. Some strategies that benefit children long term retention of information include organization, elaboration, and
a. Imagery
b. Adaption
c. Assimilation
d. Scaffolding
9. Low IQ below ________ has difficultly adapting to everyday life.
a. 110
b. 70
c. 125
d. 85
10. Cognitive, ________, motor, socioemotional, and adaptive.
a. Language
b. Creativity
c. Behavioral
d. Metacognition
11. ______ is “Knowing about knowing”
a. Critical thinking
b. Scaffolding
c. Metacognition
d. Assimilation
12. The _________ statesthat when individuals encode info they create two types of memory reps
a. Scaffolding detail approach
b. Schema theory
c. Neo piagetian approach
d. Fuzz trace theory
13. ______ is the mechanism by which info gets into memory
a. Centration
b. Scaffolding
c. Automaticity
d. Encoding
14. Nurture is to environment as nature is to
a. Metacognition
b. Heredity
c. Intelligence
d. Assimilation
15. The process of _______ is the decreases responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.
a. Joint attentions
b. Habituation
c. Dishabituation
d. Orienting
16. _________ is focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclustion of all others
a. Conservations
b. Animism
c. Egocentrism
d. Centration
17. Equilibration means
18. _________ is a part of the brains left hemisphere that’s involved in language comprehension.
a. Aphasia
b. Wernicke’s area
c. Broca’s area
d. Infinite generatively
19. Infants are unable to mentally represent experience until about _____ Months of age.
a. 9
b. 12
c. 3
d. 18
20. The ______ Stage lasts from birth to about two years of age.
a. Formal operational
b. Sensorimotor
c. Concrete operational
d. Preoperational