____ processing refers to cognitive manipulation that requires no conscious decisions or intentional effort.
a. Natural
b. Procedural
c. Controlled
d. Automatic
Ques. 2The effects of practice on automatization show a ____ curve, in which early practice effects are great and later practice makes less and less difference in the degree of automatization.
a. curvilinear
b. monotonic
c. positively accelerated
d. negatively accelerated
Ques. 3____ processing refers to cognitive processing that requires conscious control and effort that is performed one step at a time.
a. Natural
b. Procedural
c. Controlled
d. Automatic
Ques. 4____ refers to a degree of physiological excitation, responsivity, and readiness for action relative to a baseline.
a. Awareness
b. Arousal
c. Attention
d. Vigilance
Ques. 5Your roommate has made it abundantly clear to you that you are to pick up a particular bottle of wine on your way back from class and you dutifully stop at the wine store, only to discover you cannot remember the name of the wine. You are experiencing a(n) ____ error.
a. data-driven
b. associative-activation
c. loss of activation
d. description
Ques. 6Your usual walk home has been changed because of construction. Instead of turning right when you pass the park, you must now turn left right before the park. Unfortunately, you typically do not remember this until you are midway through the park. You are making a(n) ____ error.
a. loss of activation
b. description
c. data-driven
d. associative activation
Ques. 7Your younger sibling has a nasty habit of trying to annoy you when you are calling a phone number that is not already in your phone by shouting out random numbers as you enter the correct digits. Your sibling is hoping you will make a(n) ____ error.
a. loss of activation
b. description
c. associative-activation
d. data driven
Ques. 8Verlys just picked up mail at her post office box and is standing at a table sorting it. Catalogs and junk mail get thrown away while important mail is placed in her bag. Unfortunately, she drops several important pieces of mail into the trash. This is best described as a(n) ____.
a. omission
b. perseveration
c. habituation
d. description error
Ques. 9____ refers to accidentally repeating steps of an automatic procedure after the procedure has been completed.
a. Omissions
b. Perseverations
c. Description errors
d. Data-driven errors
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