What do cognitive psychologists compare the mind to?

Related Mcqs:

1. What do cognitive psychologists compare the mind to?

   A. A keyboard
   B. A CD player
   C. A Computer
   D. A Television

2. Cognitive psychologists often liken the short-term store of the mind to which part of a computer?

   A. the keyboard
   B. the printer
   C. the central processing unit
   D. the monitor

3. When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?

   A. assimilation
   B. adaptation
   C. conservation
   D. accommodation

4. Clinical psychologists tend to endorse behaviorism more strongly, and counseling psychologists tend to endorse which of the following?

   A. Eclectic approach
   B. Psychodynamic
   C. Humanistic
   D. Biological

5. ________ psychology compare human abilities with those of animals particularly non-human primates?

   A. Industrial Psychology
   B. Social Psychology
   C. Evolutionary Psychology
   D. Animal Psychology

6. ____________________ is an ability to evaluate compare, analyze, critique, and synthesize information.

   A. critical thinking
   B. Transudative thinking
   C. Deductive thinking
   D. Creative thinking

7. We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. We compare test scores of students who study to music with those who study in silence, Which of the following is an extraneous variable in this experiments?

   A. the presence or absence of music
   B. the students test scores
   C. the amount of time allowed the studying
   D. silence

8. When anthropologists compare ancient artifacts from South America, Europe, and Australia they often find similarities among the images that are depicted. Based on Jung’s analytical psychology, some of these apparent similarities may stem from:

   A. the collective unconscious
   B. reciprocal determinism
   C. the preconscious
   D. primeval consciousness

9. If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 6 months of age you should expect to find that:

   A. adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are
   B. adults and infants both use the same number of phenomes
   C. infants produce more phonemes than adults do
   D. adults and infants both use the same number of morphemes

10. Which profession is cognitive psychology particularly useful in helping?

    A. Doctors
    B. Police
    C. Chefs
    D. Politicians