Cognition Review Game

1. Cognition Review Game Test Tuesday

2. 25  __________ is the study of the meaning of words and language. • Linguistics • Morphetics • Semantics • Syntax • Encoding

3. 25 Representations used in thinking include: • Concepts • Mnemonics • Phonemes • Cognitions • Holophrases

4. 25 Basic speech sounds are called: • Telegraphic speech • Morphemes • Holophrases • Phonemes • Both 2 an 4

5. 25 The inability to see new uses for familiar objects is termed: • Proactive inhibition • Interference • Non-flexible thinking • The familiarization error • Functional fixedness

6. 25 Which of the following is usually associated with creativity? • Convergent thinking • High IQ • Modeling • Divergent thinking • Retroactive thinking

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8. 25 A truck gets stuck under a bridge. Several tow-trucks are unable to pull it out. At last a little boy walks up and asks the red-faced adults trying to free the truck, why they haven't let the air out of the truck's tires. This oversight was due to: • Functional fixedness • Fixation • Divergent thinking • Synesthesia • Proactive interference

9. 25 Heuristics are problem solving strategies which: • use a trial and error approach. • use random search strategies • Provide you with a mental shortcut • Will slowly get you the right answer • Can be unreliable

10. 25 If 98 out of 100 people respond "Golden Retriever" when asked to name what dog best represents the concept, "dog,“ then a golden retriever would be called a • Concept • Heuristic • Perceptual set • Cognitive match • Prototype

11. 25 The solution to arithmetic problems mainly requires: • Divergent thinking • Mechanical problem solving • Insight • Brainstorming • Convergent thinking

12. 25 Many companies realize the power of this psychological idea when constructing appealing product advertisements: • Framing • Cognitive dissonance • Heuristics • Syntax • Both 3 and 4

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14. 25 The fact that "Dog bites man" has a very different meaning from "Man bites dog" demonstrates the importance of • Syntax • Semantics • Heuristics • Chunking • Connotation

15. 25 Thought that involves going from general principles to specific situations is called __________ reasoning. • Inductive • Counterproductive • Deductive • Transformational • Conducive

16. 25 A tendency to select wrong answers because they seem to match pre-existing mental categories is called • Representative heuristic • Confirmation bias • Pre-loading bias • Availability heuristic • Belief bias

17. 25 If you translated "Pepsi is for the younger generation" into Spanish and the translation reads "Pepsi reverses aging," you have a problem with • Syntax • Semantics • Heuristics • Bias • Both 3 and 4

18. 25 The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called: • State-dependent memory • Retroactive interference • Proactive interference • The serial position effect • The spacing effect

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20. 25 The fact that elderly people are often less able than younger adults to recall previously learned information can be best explained in terms of the greater difficulty older people have with: • Recognition • Storage • Encoding • Retrieval • Implicit memory

21. 25 One day after Usha hears her mother's list of 12 grocery items, Usha is most likely to remember the items at the beginning and at the end of the list. This phenomenon is called: • A conceptual set • The serial position effect • Encoding failure • Retrieval recognition • A perceptual set

22. 25 The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in: • Decoding • Storage • Retrieval • Automatic processing • Encoding

23. 25 Watching a TV soap opera involving marital conflict and divorce led Andrea to recall several instances in which her husband had mistreated her. The effect of the TV program on Andrea's recall provides an example of: • A conceptual map • Recall transformation • Confirmation bias • Priming • Cognitive delay

24. 25 Your consciously activated but limited-capacity memory is called ________ memory. • Long-term memory • Short term-memory • Implicit memory • Explicit memory • Holistic memory

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26. 25 During her psychology test, Marsha could not remember the meaning of the term "proactive interference." Surprisingly, however, she accurately remembered that the term appeared on the fourth line of a left-hand page in her textbook. Her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of: • Automatic processing • The serial position effect • The spacing effect • The method of loci • The next in line effect

27. 25 When memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus was an adolescent, her uncle incorrectly insisted that as a child she had found her own mother's drowned body. Loftus herself later falsely recollected finding the body. This best illustrates: • Proactive interference • Implicit memory • The self-reliance effect • The misinformation effect • Mood-congruent memory

28. 25 Many journalists will correctly predict major events after the fact as if they “knew” they were going to happen. This phenomenon is called: • Overconfidence • Hindsight bias • Confirmation bias • Availability bias • Representative bias

29. 25 A violent protester, harming people in the name of his religion, may be exhibiting this kind of bias: • Hindsight bias • Confirmation bias • Belief bias • Belief perseverance • Representative bias

30. 25 A friend who has been proved wrong still holds on to their belief. This is called: • Hindsight bias • Confirmation bias • Representative bias • Belief bias • Belief perseverance

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