What Is Spyware

question 42

Multiple Choice

What is spyware?

• A) A special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission
• B) Experts in technology who use their knowledge to break into computers and computer networks, either for profit or just motivated by the challenge
• C) A computer attack where an attacker accesses a wireless computer network, intercepts data, uses network services, and/or sends attack instructions without entering the office or organization that owns the network
• D) Software that while purporting to serve some useful function and often fulfilling that function also allows Internet advertisers to display advertisements without the consent of the computer user

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Definitions:

Permanence

The state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely.

Coordination of Secondary Schemes

A developmental stage in infants around 8-12 months where they begin to combine learned behaviors in new ways.

Tertiary Circular

Relates to a stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development involving the purposeful adaptation of established behaviors in new contexts, observed in toddlers.

Mental Combinations

The cognitive process of putting together distinct ideas or concepts to form new knowledge or understanding.