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AP Psychology Unit 7-- Cognition
AP Psychology Unit 7-- Cognition
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This is a step by stepl, logical procedure that guarantees solving a problem:
insight
heuristic
algorithm
mental set
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Asking a poll question in a particular way to get a specific response is an example of:
framing
belief perserverance
intuition
heuristic
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"Eat apple" uttered by a two-year old is an example of:
babbling stage
language fluency
a hungry child
telegraphic speech
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What does Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve suggest about your memory of high school psychology?
you will remember clearly the first and last units
you will forget only about 5%
you will gradually and steadily forget most of it
you will immediately forget a lot, but it will level off
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emotional, vivid memories are
iconic memory
flashbulb
echoic memory
hierarchies
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A multiple choice tests rewards students who excel at:
divergent thinking
creativity
overconfidence
convergent thinking
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The idea that language determines the way we think is:
linguistic determinism
determined determinism
grammatical determinism
language determinism
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Implicit/muscle memory is processed in the
cerebellum
pons
amygdala
hippocampus
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Multiple choice test
recognition
chunking
recall
iconic memory
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Implicit memories are
unconscious/automatic
involve algorythms
conscious/effortful
involve morphemes
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Memorizing a T. S. Eliot poem for class is an example of what type of memory?
sensory
working
explicit
flashbulb
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After the accident, Jud spoke only nonsensical words and sentences. He most likely has:
infantile amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Wernicke's aphasia
Broca's aphasia
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Iconic memory (visual/sensory memory) lasts for:
a few tenths of a second
three or four seconds
30 minutes
up to an hour, with practice
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I ask you to imagine an ordinary chair. The mental image that comes to you is:
intuition
concept
heuristic
prototype
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"Ch" and "th" are examples of:
synonyms
morphemes
phonemes
grammar
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Martin has just started making babbling sounds. If he is ordinary, how old is he?
1 month
6 months
8 months
4 months
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Hansel only knows one way to deal with conflict with his children: spanking. This is:
overconfidence
confirmation bias
availability heuristic
mental set
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This is the system of rules of a language that enables communication.
grammar
syntax
morpheme
phoneme
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Sue walks from the kitchen to the bedroom, forgets what she needs until she returns to kitchen.
state-dependent memory
priming
mood congruency
serial position effect
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Brunhilda wants to do well on her chemistry exam. What do you recommend she do?
all of the above
space out her studying- spacing effect
test herself-testing effect
get plenty of sleep
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Many current memory researchers believe that Freud's defense mechanism repression. ..
rarely, if ever, occurs
occurs mostly in adults
occurs frequently after traumatic events
occurs primarily in the amygdala
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Wilbur believes the moon landing was a hoax and dismisses credible evidence to the contrary.
confirmation bias
belief perserverance
representative heuristic
overconfidence
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The teacher asked the students to come up with creative solutions to poverty. This is:
algorithm
divergent thinking
prototype
convergent thinking
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Which is most likely to lead to remembering a list of words?
semantic-thinking about how each word relates to you
forget it-- you'll never learn those words
auditory-reading the list out loud
visual-focusing on the length of each word
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Penelope struggled to respond to basic questions after her stroke. This is most likely:
linguistic determinism
none of the above
Broca's aphasia
Wernicke's aphasia
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He was known for tests with nonsense syllables and studied how quickly we forget.
Jacob Annese
B.F. Skinner
D.B. Cooper
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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The answer to some problem suddenly comes to Maxine late at night. This is:
intuition
algorithm
insight
confirmation bias
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I have the eerie sense that I have taken this Quiz quiz in this exact room before.
deja vu
misinformation effect
source amnesia
repression
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Granny can't remember what day it is or who the president is, but recalls her childhood clearly
anterograde amnesia
retroactive interference
retrograde amnesia
deja vu
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I can't remember my old phone number because my new phone number keeps coming up in my head.
retroactive interference
anterograde amnesia
retrograde amnesia
proactive interference
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Wolfgang fell out of a truck, hit his head, and cannot remember anything prior to the accident.
echoic amnesia
retrograde amnesia
anterograde amnesia
retroactive interference
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Short-term memory has a capacity of about___ items:
twelve
seven
three
unlimited
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Using HOMES to remember the Great Lakes is an example of:
hierarchy
long-term potentiation
mnemonics
concept
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Wendy thinks she remembers visiting Disney at 3 but she really just heard this from her sister.
repression
misinformation effect
deja vu
source amnesia
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Our implicit/automatic memory is very good at remembering space, time, and:
shape
size
color
frequency
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When solving most of our day to day problems, we rely on:
insight
confirmation bias
intuition
heuristics
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This part of the brain that processes explicit memories.
basal ganglia
amygdala
hippocampus
cerebellum
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This part of the brain is important in remembering emotionally-charged events:
cerebellum
hippocampus
brain stem
amygdala
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Given a list of twenty words, most people would remember ____the best. (serial position effect)
middle words
last few words
first and last but last best of all
first few words
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Stan recalls the one time he won at blackjack and this makes him eager to keep playing.
overconfidence
representative heuristic
framing
availability heuristic