Cumulative level test: Learning and interpreting evidence

Check understanding, separately from reading

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Question 1

Repeated accurate practice can alter performance and neural responses. A single pleasant feeling is not evidence that a durable skill has been formed.

What best supports a claim of durable learning?Retention and transfer after a delayEnjoyment during one exposure alone

Question 2

Remembering a birthday and riding a practiced bicycle are different memory demands. Difficulty with one need not imply loss of every kind of memory.

What follows from dissociable memory abilities?All memory is stored as one undifferentiated recordingDifferent tasks can rely on partly distinct systems

Question 3

Close the page and explain a synapse, then compare your account with the source. Revisit tomorrow instead of counting rereading fluency as recall.

Which activity actually tests retrieval?Explaining the idea with the page closedLooking at the answer until it feels familiar

Question 4

Reading a complex explanation while monitoring messages imposes switching costs. Reducing competing signals can improve learning without reducing conceptual depth.

What is the purpose of reducing distractions?Make the content intellectually trivialProtect processing resources for the current task

Question 5

An unexpected reward can change learning more than an equally pleasant fully predicted reward. Surprise relative to expectation is important to the model.

What does a reward prediction error compare?Expected and received outcomesOnly the total pleasure a person has ever felt

Question 6

A brief mobilizing response during a challenge differs from prolonged uncontrollable stress. Similar labels need not imply identical effects on cognition.

Which comparison is most informative?Only whether the word stress appliesDuration and controllability alongside intensity

Question 7

Functional MRI commonly uses blood-oxygenation-related signals. A highlighted region reflects an analysis and contrast, not proof that only that region performs the task.

What must accompany interpretation of an activation map?The method, comparison and analysis limitsAn assumption that color directly photographs a thought

Question 8

A region is active during a task. That observation alone does not show the activity is necessary; an intervention addresses a different causal question.

What is not established by task-correlated activation alone?That the observed signals were associated with the taskThat the region is necessary for the task

Question 9

If a region responds during fear and several other processes, seeing its activity does not uniquely identify fear. Specificity matters.

Why is the inference to fear uncertain?The signal can accompany multiple processesNo mental state can ever affect brain signals

Question 10

A small group-level study of a training task does not establish that an app raises everyone’s general intelligence. Examine transfer, controls and replication.

Which evidence is needed for broad improvement claims?Only an impressive brain illustrationTransfer, suitable controls and replication

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