According to research, which of the following kinds of information seems to be the most stable?
a. olfactory
b. visual
c. tactile
d. auditory
A
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The ability to reflect consciously and deliberately on one's own cognitive processes is known as __________.
A. hypothetico-deductive reasoning B. metacognitive understanding C. formal operational thinking D. syllogisms
The process of comparing an individual’s test score to a norm group is referred to as
a. standard scoring. b. norm-based interpretation. c. transformation of scores. d. statistical analysis.
A psychologist tells a group of students who are touring a mental hospital that they are going to see a patient exhibit loose associations. What are the students likely to find when they meet this patient?
a) The staff removed the patient's restraints. b) The patient becomes sexually excited with ease. c) What the patient says will make little sense to them. d) Wandering the halls is the patient's primary symptom.
One advantage of the sequential design is that
A) researchers can find out whether cohort effects are operating by comparing participants of the same age who were born in different years. B) it permits cause-and-effect inferences by studying groups of people differing in age at the same point in time. C) it presents participants with a novel task and follows their mastery over a series of closely spaced sessions. D) it is especially useful for studying the strategies children use to acquire new knowledge in reading and science.