Unit 5A (Cognition)

Question 1

What "box" of three box model has a capacity of 7 items on average and lasts approx. 30 secs.?

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short-term memory

Question 2

What is it called when you have knowledge but don't know when and where you 1st encountered it?

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source amnesia

Question 3

What is the initial acquisition of information called?

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encoding

Question 4

What are the rhythmic and intonational aspects of language called?

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prosody

Question 5

What is the tendency to remember information that is personally relevant called?

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saliency effect

Question 6

What type of concept is smaller and more specific/refined? (e.g., rye bread, Siamese cat, etc.)

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subordinate

Question 7

What are the smallest units of sound in a language called?

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phonemes

Question 8

What type of long-term memory is a combination of both episodic and semantic memory?

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autobiographical

Question 9

What common property of language involves word order and grammatical rules?

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syntax

Question 10

What method of retrieval involves producing an item/set of items from memory (e.g., essay q)?

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recall

Question 11

What is the tendency to remember items that are studied a few times over a long period?

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spacing effect

Question 12

Which of the following is a very broad concept? (e.g., entertainment, education, food, etc.)

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superordinate

Question 13

What format of long-term memory is characterized by memories stored as sequential narrative?

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episodic

Question 14

Any pattern of sounds can refer to anything. What common property of lang. does this ex.?

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arbitrariness

Question 15

What is the tendency to vividly remember emotional events (e.g., JFK's assassination) called?

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flashbulb memory

Question 16

What are the smallest units of a language that carry meaning called?

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morphemes

Question 17

If I failed to realize that a fan can be used to prop up a door, what error have I committed?

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functional fixation

Question 18

What type of LTM involves physical skills and is sometimes called "muscle memory"?

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procedural

Question 19

What type of LTM involves general knowledge of the world such as facts and meanings of words?

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semantic

Question 20

Which type of heuristic involves judging a situation based on prototypes?

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representative

Question 21

What term is used for the situation in which emotion interferes with accurate judgment?

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the affective error

Question 22

What type of LTM involves remembering to do something in the future?

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prospective

Question 23

What part of the brain is involved in the processing of procedural memory?

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cerebellum

Question 24

What part of the brain is involved in the processing of explicit/declarative memories?

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hippocampus

Question 25

What term is used to describe the process of searching for some item in memory and finding it?

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retrieval

Question 26

Which of the following states that one's language may control or limit one's thinking?

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linguistic relativity hypothesis

Question 27

What aspect of language involves such things as status, formality, and taking turns?

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pragmatics

Question 28

What is reasoning that is directed toward one specific answer called?

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deductive reasoning

Question 29

What common property of language involves formal or informal word meanings?

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semanticity

Question 30

What type of interference involves new learning hampering the recall of old information?

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retroactive interference

Question 31

What is it called when one uses a "rule of thumb" or shortcut to solve a problem?

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heuristic

Question 32

Which theorist argued that a language acquisition device is innately present in humans?

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Noam Chomsky

Question 33

What terminology is used to describe information that is barely elusive?

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tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Question 34

When a company sells a product for $11.99 rather than $12, what does this exemplify?

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framing

Question 35

What is reasoning that involves searching for multiple possible answers called?

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inductive reasoning

Question 36

People are often more afraid of flying than driving due to which reasoning error?

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availability heuristic

Question 37

What type of amnesia is characterized by the inability to recall a portion of one's past?

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retrograde amnesia

Question 38

What are unintentional memories that we might not even know we have called?

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implicit

Question 39

What is the tendency to recall items at the end of a list called?

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recency effect

Question 40

What is tendency to recall items presented at the beginning of a list called?

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primacy

Question 41

What is supposedly photographic memory called?

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eidetic

Question 42

What is the member of a category that is most average or typical called?

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prototype

Question 43

What type of memory distortion involves the unwitting reconstruction of facts and events?

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confabulation

Question 44

What aspect of sensory memory is defined as "a split second perfect photograph of a scene"?

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iconic

Question 45

What is an active mental framework/category called?

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schema

Question 46

What term is used for the tendency to overestimate how much others agree with you?

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the false consensus effect

Question 47

What is it called when you use a rule/formula to solve a problem?

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algorithm

Question 48

You can talk about the there and then. What common property of language does this exemplify?

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displacement

Question 49

What terminology is used for discomfort that results from conflicting beliefs and actions?

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cognitive dissonance

Question 50

What type of rehearsal involves linking info to pre-existing knowledge or forming imagery?

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elaborative

Unit 5A (Cognition)

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Unit 5A (Cognition)

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