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- A. The simplest strategy is blind search, in which you just move to letters around blindly until a phrase appears
- B. Constraining the search space will help to speed up the problem-solving process
- C. All the problems can be construed in terms of search spaces
- D. All of the above
Explanation: Anagram solving can be viewed as searching a space of possible letter arrangements, and restricting that space with clues or patterns…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Logic
- B. Detection of the problem
- C. Conditional of the problem
- D. Heuristics
- E. Representation of the problem
Explanation: Findings from selection tasks, puzzles, and think-aloud protocols show that people reason according to how they mentally represent a…
Correct answer: Representation of the problem- A. Being numerate calls for a standard application of arithmetic procedures drawn from memory
- B. Creative problem-solving can also be done according to formula
- C. Even if we experience the same problem type over and over again creative problem-solving never become routine
- D. None of the above
Explanation: Numeracy often involves retrieving and applying learned arithmetic procedures, whereas creative problem-solving is not necessarily…
Correct answer: Being numerate calls for a standard application of arithmetic procedures drawn from memory- A. A good book is like a good meal
- B. Necessity is the mother of invention
- C. When Helen heard the news, she almost had a meltdown
- D. There was considerable political fallout from the scandal
Explanation: A good book is like a good meal is a simile because it explicitly uses like to compare two things.
Correct answer: A good book is like a good meal- A. In the sentence 'Harry drove to London there may be a default representation of the fact that a car was used. subsequent mention of a car should not be a problem because its default is already in the representation resulting from the sentence and Sanford failed to show this
- B. Sanford are Garrod argued that we automatically relate what is being said to background knowledge is organized in long-term memory about specific situations
- C. In Garnham's experiment cooked was a better retrieval cue for the sentence 'Mary cooked the chips than was fried because 'cooked' actually appears in the sentence
- D. Scenarios result from next comprehension; they do not help comprehension take place
Explanation: Sanford and Garrod argued that readers automatically connect language with situation-specific background knowledge stored in long-term…
Correct answer: Sanford are Garrod argued that we automatically relate what is being said to background knowledge is organized in long-term memory about specific situations- A. The finding of Gibbs show that the applicability of the standard comprehension model is widespread
- B. Comprehending sentences in stories is the same as comprehending actual interactions in dialogue
- C. Work on indirect speech-act comprehension reinforces the view that literal interpretation is always necessary
- D. Similar findings have been obtained for metaphor comprehension as have been obtained with speech-act comprehension
Explanation: Gibbs's findings support the idea that people can understand indirect meanings without first fully processing a literal interpretation…
Correct answer: Similar findings have been obtained for metaphor comprehension as have been obtained with speech-act comprehension- A. Participants were presented with spoken passage like these; (a) Mary needed to buy some presents, so she went to the bank;(b) Mary found the river cold ,so she swam to the bank
- B. immediately after the presentation of the ambiguous word, Swinney presented a single letter string on a screen participants had to decide whether the letter string was a world or not(a lexical decision)
- C. When the string was a word, it could either be related to the intended sense of the ambiguous word(e.g) money') related to the other sense (e.g mud), or unrelated to other
- D. It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection
Explanation: Swinney's results indicated that both meanings of an ambiguous word were initially activated, while context guided selection after a…
Correct answer: It turned out that there was differential advantage (priming) for different sense of the word when there was a delay before the second stimulus depending on the meaning so context appeared to affect initial sense selection- A. There is one principle class of phenomena that requires more than literal meaning
- B. In understanding metaphor the processor first has to parse sentences than has to determine their significance too
- C. The meaning of "Could you close the door?" can be established on the basis of semantics alone
- D. Both a & b
Explanation: Understanding language can require more than literal semantics, as in metaphor and indirect requests.
Correct answer: In understanding metaphor the processor first has to parse sentences than has to determine their significance too- A. 1 & 2
- B. 1 & 3
- C. 2 & 4
- D. 3 & 4
Explanation: Parsing is the process of assigning grammatical structure and meaning to a sentence, making statement 2 true; statement 4 is also true…
Correct answer: 2 & 4- A. Context
- B. Semantics
- C. Pragmatics
- D. Discourse
Explanation: Discourse is connected language extending beyond a single sentence, such as several related sentences forming a coherent message.
Correct answer: Discourse- A. Syntax
- B. Pragmatics
- C. Mnemonics
- D. Semantics
Explanation: Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are core components involved in understanding and using natural language.
Correct answer: Mnemonics- A. Recognition
- B. Familarity
- C. Unconscious influences
- D. Recall
- E. All of the above
Explanation: Recognition, familiarity, recall, and unconscious effects of previous experience can all reveal that information has been retained in…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Bringing information to mind in responses to non-specific cues.
- B. Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues.
- C. identifying information provided at test time as having been encountered previously.
- D. Responding differently to previously encountered information than to new information.
Explanation: Cued recall requires retrieving information with the help of a specific prompt, such as a category, word, or image.
Correct answer: Bringing information to mind in responses to specific cues.- A. People have different memory capabilities and so make different errors.
- B. People have different verbal abilities and vocabularies and so would report their memory differently, even though their actual memory were the same.
- C. Peoples have different motivations and so will not all equally hard; they will report exactly what occurred, but they will leave different parts out.
- D. People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.Psychology
Explanation: Constructive memory is rebuilt using prior experiences, values, goals, and expectations, so two people may interpret and later reconstruct…
Correct answer: People have different past experiences, values and goals and so will experience different events, even when the external event in the same.Psychology- A. Explicit memory involves conscious awareness of the original information or the situation in which the learning occured.
- B. Implicit memory refers to an influence on behaviour, feelings or thoughts as a result of prior expeience,
- C. Explicit memory involves recollection of the original information or experience that is subsequently recalled.
- D. Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events.
Explanation: Implicit memory affects behaviour, feelings, or thoughts without conscious recollection, whereas explicit memory involves consciously…
Correct answer: Implicit memory involves a conscious recollection of the original events.- A. Because remembering is a complex process.
- B. Because remembering involves most other cognitive aspects of a person.
- C. Because remembering involves most other emotional aspects of a person.
- D. Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering.
Explanation: Memory depends on complex cognitive processes and interacts with attention, perception, language, emotion, and knowledge.
Correct answer: Because so much of the body is active when someone is remembering.- A. Presenting the words in meaningful hierarchies reduced the learning time to a quarter of that required for the same words randomly positioned.
- B. The organization of the hierarchy emphasized aspects of the words meanings.
- C. The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing.
- D. The organization of the hierarchy simplified the learning of the lists.Neuroscience
Explanation: Bower and colleagues found that semantically organised hierarchies greatly reduced learning time and made list learning easier.
Correct answer: The hierarchy identified three different levels of information processing.- A. Imagined memories of the event
- B. Expectations about recalling the passage at a later time
- C. Expectations about Nancy's condition
- D. Pre-existing knowledge about people named Nancy
Explanation: People use schemas and expectations to interpret and reconstruct ambiguous material, so their recall can be shaped by what they expect…
Correct answer: Expectations about Nancy's condition- A. People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information
- B. People remember unpracticed information better than practiced information
- C. People remember names better than faces
- D. People remember faces better than names
Explanation: Retrieval-induced forgetting occurs when practising some items makes related, unpractised items harder to recall, so the practiced…
Correct answer: People remember practiced information better than unpracticed information- A. Last research effect
- B. Recency effect
- C. Delayed effect
- D. Limited capacity effect
Explanation: The recency effect is the tendency to recall items at the end of a list better than items from the middle, partly because the most recent…
Correct answer: Recency effect