Which of the following is NOT a fundamental assumption of the information
processing model?
a. incoming information must be elaborated to be remembered
b. there is one general type of knowledge in long term memory
c. individuals use metacognitive knowledge to help them regulate their learning
d. the capacity of our sensory and short term memory stores are quite limited
Ques. 2A major complaint that behaviorists make against cognitive psychologists is that
cognitive psychologists
a. refer to the mind as a blank slate
b. do not possess a unified theory of learning
c. generalize from animal behavior to human behavior
d. constantly refer to unobservable mental processes that may not exist
Ques. 3Which of the following schools of thought would be most likely to agree with the
statement: The concept of mind' is irrelevant to psychology?
a. functionalism
b. behaviorism
c. gestalt psychology
d. cognitive psychology
Ques. 4The cognitive view of teaching portrays students as
a. active processors of information
b. passive learners
c. trial and error learners
d. dependent on the teacher for new information to process
Ques. 5A cognitively-oriented history teacher likely would be most pleased by her students
a. learning a large number of names and dates of the early 20th century
b. generating several hypotheses about why the Spanish Civil War occurred
c. memorizing a speech given by Thomas Jefferson
d. reproducing the 1939 borders on a blank map of Europe
Ques. 6Which is true about Vygotsky's notion of private speech?
a. Private speech can result from an internalization of social dialog.
b. Private speech follows a covert-to-overt developmental cycle.
c. Private speech is associated with children and adolescents, but not adults.
d. Private speech decreases when the difficulty of a task increases.
Ques. 7The mind processes information like a computer, would be a statement most likely to
be made by a
a. structuralist
b. cognitive psychologist
c. phenomenologist
d. behaviorist
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