Cognitive Quizzes & Trivia

Pay attention. You need to focus right now and make sure you choose the exact answer you want. We will evaluate your capabilities and we need to make sure the results reflect reality perfectly. Don’t worry, though! We won’t use any kind of cognitive test. Instead, we will use the good old quizzes that we’ve always used and see how well you can score.

But before we start them how about a few samples to get you warmed up? What are the names of the two main types of cognitive tests that are usually administered to animals? What is the name of the person that coined the term “mental tests”? These “mental tests” followed Francis Galton’s development of what kind of tests? Give the right answers and score maximum points.

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Cognitive Learning Theory Quiz (9 Events Of Instruction)

This quiz is designed to assess the retention of content delivered during the Cognitive Learning Theory lesson for the Stockton College MAIT cohort.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 2340 | Last updated: Feb 16, 2012

Sample Question
An 11th grade Auto Tech teacher shows his students how their current project would be handled in a real-life working environment. If the teacher is adhering to Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction, which event is he displaying here?

Enhancing Retention and Transfer

Assessing Performance

Recalling Prior Learning

Cognitive Theory: Gagne

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1387 | Last updated: Jan 22, 2013

Sample Question
What is the first event of Gagne's "Nine Events of Instruction?"

Gain attention

Enhance retention

Explain Objective

Quiz 4/5: Cognitive Distortions And Stress

The last quiz of the course- congratulations!

Questions: 23 | Attempts: 3069 | Last updated: Dec 14, 2012

Sample Question
Cognitive distortions are said to especially affect which mental condition?

Schizophrenia.

Clinical Depression.

Bipolar Disorder.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Anorexia Nervosa.

Cognitive Development

Questions: 6 | Attempts: 1954 | Last updated: Feb 15, 2013

Sample Question
What does cognitive development refer to?

The process by which a child uses old methods to deal with new situations

Children adjusting to new situations

How a person thinks and gains understanding through interaction of genetic and environmental factors

Learning at different rates

Cognitive Quiz - Elaborative And Maintenance Rehearsal

Multiple Choice Quiz on Elaborative and Maintenance Rehearsal.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 88 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
1. What is self reference?

Doing experiments on yourself to remember things

When writing the essay for the test, talking about yourself.

Thinking about yourself when studying

Relating the topics you are learning to yourself

Recent Quizzes

Calculate Your Cognitive Reserve!

Calculate your Cognitive Reserve!

During normal aging humans undergo a steady decline in cognitive abilites. However, this decline varies greatly from person to person, and there a re many factors that affect it. One of these factors is cognitive...

Questions: 553 | Attempts: 86 | Last updated: Apr 22, 2014

Sample Question
How many times per week do you drink alcoholic beverages?

Never

1-3 times a week

Cognitive Thinking & Learning Chapt 9

Questions: 35 | Attempts: 42 | Last updated: Jan 29, 2013

Sample Question
Which is NOT one of the three basic units of thought?

Image

Prototype

Concept

Language

Key Concepts In The Cognitive Perspective

Key Concepts in the Cognitive Perspective

A quick quiz in cognitive perspective vocabulary.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 56 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
What is the component of long-term memory that involves general knowledge of the world?

Procedural memory

Semantic memory

Episodic memory

Sensory memory

Cognitive Quiz - Wmm

Cognitive Quiz - WMM

Questions about the Working Memory Model.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 207 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
What was the year that research for the Working Memory Model was conducted in?

1972

1959

1974

1968

Cognitive Perspective - Historical And Cultural Conditions

Cognitive Perspective - Historical and Cultural Conditions

A quiz on the first section of the syllabus for cognitive psychology. How much do you know about the conditions that gave rise to the cognitive perspective?

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 73 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
What famous war was one of the main causes for more in-depth research into the cognitive perspective?

The Vietnam War

World War II

The Korea War

World War I

The Cold War

Cognitive - Lop Quiz

Cognitive - LOP Quiz

Quiz on levels of processing approach

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 54 | Last updated: Jan 10, 2013

Sample Question
What does LOP stand for?

Layers of Phonetics

Levels of Processing

Layers of Processing

Levels of Phonetics