Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Egocentrism, Ontogeny, Cultural-Historical Psychology

10. Dreams often involve sudden emotional reactions and surprising changes in scene. This best serves to support the theory that dreams a represent the brain's attempt to interpret random neural activity. b. provide a summary of the previous day's events. c. reflect one's level of cognitive development. d. represent our failures and current fears.

18. The capacity of a brain area to reorganize in response to damage is known as brain a. hemispherectomy b. cognitive neural prosthetics. c. plasticity. d. lateralization

11. The critical feature of cognition is a. organization c. conversion of stimuli to action potentials b. developing meaning d. all of these