Practice question · Select all that apply
Select every statement that is TRUE about cognitive psychology.
Hints
- Two options reverse a core fact - one about cognitive method, one about Piaget's order.
- Cognitive psychology studies INTERNAL processes, and formal operational is the LAST stage.
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- B. The information-processing model treats the mind like a computer.
- C. Chomsky argued language acquisition needs more than reinforcement.
- D. Most people can hold roughly seven unrelated items in mind at once, give or take two.
Why
Miller's seven, the computer analogy, and Chomsky's critique are all true. Cognitive psychology studies internal processes (not only observable behavior), and formal operational is Piaget's LAST stage (not the first) - so those two are false.
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