Fifteen-year-old Donny can read his math textbooks quickly. His little sister, Marie, also reads her math books, but it takes her longer and she stumbles over some words. Donny is demonstrating greater
a. abstract thinking.
b. metacognition.
c. hypothetical deduction.
d. automaticity
Answer: d.
You might also like to view...
Local environments, such as the availability of parks, sidewalks, and public transportation have a big impact on
a. cognitive functioning. b. job satisfaction. c. motivation. d. health behaviors.
Pat is dyslexic and started speaking a little later than Chris. Pat is more likely to be
a. either gender, since we do not enough information to determine likelihood. b. either gender, since verbal differences are small. c. a female than Chris. d. a male than Chris.
All of these are different types of memory storage in the modal model conceptualized by Atkinson and Shiffrin except for:
a) short-term memory. b) long-term memory. c) sensory memory. d) semantic memory.
Mumby and his colleagues showed that large hippocampal lesions blocked the object-recognition deficits caused in rats by cerebral ischemia when the lesions were
A) unilateral but not bilateral. B) contralateral but not ipsilateral. C) made 1 hour, but not 1 week, after the ischemia. D) ipsilateral but not contralateral. E) made 1 week, but not 1 hour, after ischemia.