This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cognition > Cognitive Theories – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cognitive Theories Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Jean Piaget, what takes place before learning can start? A) Preteaching. B) Development. C) Warm up. D) Homework check. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Development. 2. Three of the following are essential for successful modeling. Which one is not essential? A) Attention. B) Retention. C) Motivation. D) Inquiry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inquiry. 3. Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ..... stage A) Operational. B) Preoperational. C) Sensorimotor. D) Formal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensorimotor. 4. An example of procedual memory, world be ..... A) Recalling what you did at your prom. B) How your steak was cooked at Outback last night. C) Riding a bike. D) Who you were with when your first heard about the September 11th attacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Riding a bike. 5. Which kind of interaction in cognitive development did Piaget and Vygotsky emphasize as important? A) Political. B) Cultural. C) Scientific. D) Social. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social. 6. In which of the following stages will children learn the concept of conservation? A) Preoperational. B) Sensorimotor. C) Concrete operational. D) Formal operational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concrete operational. 7. The process of setting goals substantiates self-efficacy and A) Innovation. B) Improves memory. C) Motivates people to learn. D) Al of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motivates people to learn. 8. According to Bandura, what can expand the range and rate of learning? A) Modeling. B) Reinforcers. C) Chocolate. D) Socializing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modeling. 9. A belief that one is capable A) Self-efficacy. B) Readiness to learn. C) Problem solving. D) Transfer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-efficacy. 10. This is our memory of personal experiences. A) Enjoyable Memory. B) Episodic Memory. C) Facilitate Memory. D) Procedural Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Episodic Memory. 11. This term means knowledge of one's own learning, or about how to learn. A) Meaningful learning. B) Rote Learning. C) Metacognition. D) Cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metacognition. 12. Francis can give the currencies of the different countries when asked by the teacher. Apparently, he has what kind of memory? A) Situational. B) Semantic. C) Procedural. D) Episodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantic. 13. In the Levels of Processing Theory, individuals will remember ..... A) Only what they process. B) Everything included in the notes they take. C) Little to nothing. D) Information for no more than 1 hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only what they process. 14. Paired-associate learning involves ..... A) Learning a list of items in a particular order. B) Learning to respond with one member of a pair when given the other member, usually from a list of pairs to be memorized. C) Memorizing a list but not in a special order. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learning to respond with one member of a pair when given the other member, usually from a list of pairs to be memorized. 15. (A. ) is the tendency to learn the first items presented in a list of words given to learn, an (B. ) is the tendency to learn the last elements. A) Primacy effect, recency effect. B) Recency effect, primacy effect. C) Primacy effect, special effect. D) First in, first out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primacy effect, recency effect. 16. ..... is adjusting what is already known to fit the new information. A) Schemata. B) Accommodation. C) Assimilation. D) Schema. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accommodation. 17. According to Stephen Krashen, what is acquisition? A) An old approach. B) A type of learning that just emphasizes listening. C) An unconscious process. D) A hypothesis about the direct method. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An unconscious process. 18. Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage? A) Sensorimotor. B) Preoperational. C) Concrete Operational. D) Formal Operational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensorimotor. 19. Social cognitive theorists tell us that students are most likely to work for goals that: A) Their teachers have set for them. B) Their parents have set for them. C) Their peers impose on them. D) They have chosen for themselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They have chosen for themselves. 20. Learning events on a timeline, learning the order of operations in long division are examples of ..... A) Serial and free-call learning. B) Paired-associate learning. C) Free-recall learning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Serial and free-call learning. Next →Related QuizzesCognitive Theories Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books