Question 1

What is an algorithm?​

Accepted Answer

A) Any of the most typical members of a category 
B) ​A group of people who work to solve a problem together 
C) ​A careful procedure for determining the correct answer 
D) ​An impulsive answer 
A) Any of the most typical members of a category 
B) ​A group of people who work to solve a problem together 
C) ​A careful procedure for determining the correct answer 
D) ​An impulsive answer

Question 2

You view a screen that displays one or more letters.Your task is to say the first letter.After which of these displays will you most easily give the right answer?​

Accepted Answer

A) B 
B) ​BD 
C) ​BXD 
D) ​BIRD 
A) B 
B) ​BD 
C) ​BXD 
D) ​BIRD

Question 3

An experiment on the word-superiority effect would use which of these procedures?​

Accepted Answer

A) Record how fast someone can identify a letter on a screen alone or as part of a word. 
B) ​Measure how well someone can complete a motor task with or without conversation. 
C) ​Test how well someone can recognize pictures that do or do not have verbal labels. 
D) ​Test how well someone can remember lists of words or nonsense strings of letters. 
A) Record how fast someone can identify a letter on a screen alone or as part of a word. 
B) ​Measure how well someone can complete a motor task with or without conversation. 
C) ​Test how well someone can recognize pictures that do or do not have verbal labels. 
D) ​Test how well someone can remember lists of words or nonsense strings of letters.

Question 4

What does the choice-delay test measure?​

Accepted Answer

A) Tendency to regret a choice shortly after making it 
B) ​Preference between a small reward now and a larger one later 
C) ​The delay between deciding on something and actually doing it 
D) ​Brain activity while making a decision 
A) Tendency to regret a choice shortly after making it 
B) ​Preference between a small reward now and a larger one later 
C) ​The delay between deciding on something and actually doing it 
D) ​Brain activity while making a decision

Question 5

Who would probably NOT show the Stroop effect?​

Accepted Answer

A) Someone with post-traumatic stress disorder 
B) ​Someone who cannot read 
C) ​Someone with attention deficit disorder 
D) ​Someone with extensive musical training 
A) Someone with post-traumatic stress disorder 
B) ​Someone who cannot read 
C) ​Someone with attention deficit disorder 
D) ​Someone with extensive musical training

Question 6

In what way does the language an infant hears affect the infant's babbling sounds?​

Accepted Answer

A) The speech an infant hears in the first month of life determines the amount of babbling. 
B) ​Each day, the infant babbles as much time as he or she hears adults talk. 
C) ​Infants respond to a parent's words by babbling the same number of syllables. 
D) ​By age one year, infants mostly babble the kinds of sounds they have heard. 
A) The speech an infant hears in the first month of life determines the amount of babbling. 
B) ​Each day, the infant babbles as much time as he or she hears adults talk. 
C) ​Infants respond to a parent's words by babbling the same number of syllables. 
D) ​By age one year, infants mostly babble the kinds of sounds they have heard.

Question 7

​As a rule,when does someone develop expertise in a given field?

Accepted Answer

A) Someone who is going to develop expertise does so within the first year of practice. 
B) ​Almost anyone develops expertise after ten years of practice. 
C) ​Ten years of practice is about the average, but people vary a great deal. 
D) ​No practice is necessary. Experts are born, not made. 
A) Someone who is going to develop expertise does so within the first year of practice. 
B) ​Almost anyone develops expertise after ten years of practice. 
C) ​Ten years of practice is about the average, but people vary a great deal. 
D) ​No practice is necessary. Experts are born, not made.

Question 8

​What might prevent you from showing the Stroop effect?

Accepted Answer

A) Print the words in large capital letters. 
B) ​Print the words with wider than usual spaces between them. 
C) ​Print the words in italic font. 
D) ​Print the words in a language you don't understand. 
A) Print the words in large capital letters. 
B) ​Print the words with wider than usual spaces between them. 
C) ​Print the words in italic font. 
D) ​Print the words in a language you don't understand.

What is an algorithm?

You view a screen that displays one or more letters.Your task is to say the first letter.After which of these displays will you most easily give the right answer?

An experiment on the word-superiority effect would use which of these procedures?

What does the choice-delay test measure?

Who would probably NOT show the Stroop effect?

In what way does the language an infant hears affect the infant's babbling sounds?

As a rule,when does someone develop expertise in a given field?

What might prevent you from showing the Stroop effect?

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