In contrast to Piaget's approach, information-processing researchers
A) focus on multiple kinds of intelligences.
B) consider the specific processes by which people acquire and use information to which
they are exposed.
C) focus on how people make cognitive advances from one stage to the next.
D) seek to identify the universal, broad milestones in cognitive development.
B
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Population density influences culture, whereas climate does not
a) True b) False
Text author Robert Kail won tickets to the Indianapolis 500 auto race by listing all the possible words that could be created from the words "SAFERACE.". This is an example of a. combinatorial reasoning
b. animism. c. functional fixedness. d. object permanence.
According to your textbook, the claimed benefits of large-group awareness training and sensitivity and encounter groups may be due to
a. the therapeutic alliance. b. the therapy placebo effect. c. vicarious conditioning. d. the mirror effect.
Glass and Singer (1972) exposed participants to bursts of loud noise while they solved puzzles. Some participants were told that they could turn off the noise by pressing a button. Others were not given this option. Glass and Singer found that:
A) loud noise produced dramatic decreases in task performance in both groups. B) loud noise increased task performance in the group with the escape option. C) simply having an escape option reduced the disruptiveness of the loud noise. D) loud noise increased task performance, but only in the group that actively turned it off.