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Question 1:

Bruner et al. suggested that if an item has attributes from a concept, then it is an example of which of the following instances?
a) A positive instance
b) A negative instance
c) A conjunctive instance
d) A disjunctive instance

Question 2:

You are participating in an experiment and the experimenter has given you a card with a picture of a purple diamond. She says that this is a positive instance of the concept and challenges you to figure out what the concept is by having you choose any card you like while she responds as to whether it is a positive or negative instance of the concept. What type of task is this?
a) A reception task
b) A selection task
c) A conjunctive task
d) A focus gambling task

Question 3:

Which of the following describes learning that occurs unintentionally?
a) Negative instance
b) Positive instance
c) Explicit learning
d) Implicit learning

Question 4:

Shanks and colleagues presented evidence that implicit learning can be accompanied by which of the following?
a) Negative instance
b) Positive instance
c) Explicit awareness
d) Cognitive unconsciousness

Question 5:

The skills that enable us to construct temporary categories for defining objects are rooted in which of the following?
a) Category-specific deficits
b) Perceptual experience
c) Embodied cognition
d) Graded structure

Question 6:

According to some embodied cognition theorists, the role of cognition is to facilitate successful interaction with the environment.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

A requisite characteristic of goal-derived categories is that all members share at least one attribute.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Motor expertise can modulate how we perceive action, especially action that is involved in the expert action.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

For most people, the colours used in a stoplight would be highly prototypical of the concepts of red, green, and yellow.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Sometimes a brain injury can lead to a selective inability to be able to identify your own pet as a living object.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Cognition, Fifth Edition: Chapter 8