Cognitive Skills

Which type of memory is responsible for holding information temporarily and actively processing it?

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

• Sensory memory

• Implicit memory

Age range of sensory motor stage is

• 7 to 11

• 11 to 16

• Birth to 2

• 2 to 7

Which of the following wrote a theory on Cognitive development?

• Rousseau

• Piaget

• Bloom

• Bruner

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of working memory ?

• Unlimited storage capacity

• Drawn on by a wide range of tasks

• Easily accessible

• Contents closely associated with the current focus of attention

A group of participants has just completed a series of problems involving water jars. In each problem, the participants needed to fill the largest jar, pour from it once into the middle-sized jar, and then pour from the largest jar twice into the smallest jar. The participants are now given a new problem, which cannot be solved via this procedure. We would expect that the participants will:

• Quickly solve the new problem because they have had practice with a series of very similar problems

• Have difficulty with the new problem because they are now locked into the           procedure they had used successfully

• Behave just as participants who have no experience with water jar problems;         that is, there will be no effect of the prior training

• Try their already practiced procedure and, once they realize this procedure does not help them, they will show no effect of the prior training

The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as:

• A single item

• About seven items

• About seven volumes

• Limitless

What is Mnemonics?

• Strategy designed to help students improve their memory of important information

• Strategies used to listen in a concise way

• Strategies used to improve oral production.

The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two is

• Long-term memory

• Short-term memory

• Procedural memory

• Sensory memory

Which of the following are  qualities employers might look for when assessing your cognitive  ability during the hiring process:

• Recognizing patterns of events

• Analyzing problems and finding options

• Brainstorming

• All of the above

The inability to stay focused on a task over a period of time without distractions is a weakness in which type of cognitive ability?

• Memory

• Attention

• Logic and reasoning

• Auditory processing