AP Psychology: Unit 5 Cognition Jones

Adding salt to a meal slowly until you can taste the proportional change illustrates

After hearing that my child is a ballplayer, you assume I have a son, not a daughter. This is:

Who is incorrectly matched with their research? 

Phonemes are best defined as:

Which structure is found in the inner ear?

Noam Chomsky’s language theory included the idea that:

Rules of grammar can best be defined as:

A survey showed that 75% of ppl like plants, but only 15% of them like botany, this is due to

The part of the brain most responsible for making decisions is the

Which of the following is not supported by the Whorf relativity hypothesis?

Which of the following is an opiate?

When he was 40, AJ was asked to recall his 14th birthday, which type of memory is this example?

Ronnie hit his head when he was fifteen and was unable to process new memories. What is this?

Which is NOT true of babbling?

Dr. Tallway believes that children learn language based on reinforcement. He agrees with

What is consolidation?

What type of memory has info about how to do things like ride a bike, tie shoes or hit a ball

Which of the following is incorrect about rehearsal in short-term memory?

Scientists are trained to review any inconsistencies with their hypothesis in order to avoid

Rudy is 6'6 and 220lbs, I think that he is more likely a basketball player than a chess player

When Maria's mother drops her off at preschool, Maria says only one word, "Mama." Maria is in

Analogy: "-ed" is to "oo" as _____________ is to ______________Analogy:

Which of the following is an example of the use of the representativeness heuristic?

When solving an anagram one must try every possible combination of letters, this is an example

Walking up and down the aisles of a store to find your item is a strategy known as

Old people are good at focusing, even with many stimuli. This is

Which of the following is false regarding our perceptual set?

Procedural knowledge like tying your shoes is stored in which part of the brain

Mary accidentally called her current boyfriend by her ex-boyfriend's name. This is...

William Wundt's early work led to the theory of

Who is incorrectly matched with their research?

What is another name for blocking?

After seeing a blue car in a commercial, blue is the color I pick out at the dealership

This obstacle results from a fixed schema and expectations of how to solve a problem

What is the process by which memories are formed and strengthened?

Who believed that language was part of an inborn communication device?

Grady was in an accident that left him unable to comprehend spoken words. Most likely damage to

Why would somebody who takes a test while on medication want to take medicine all year long?

What is an example of overgeneralization/overregularization?

Which of the following is not an example of overcoming functional fixedness?

What is the serial position effect?

The behaviorist who concluded that a child will model aggressive behaviors modeled by adults

Which of the following is an example of functional fixedness?

Which part of the nervous system allows you to raise your hand to answer a question?

Syntax refers to

Experts in a field often prefer heuristics to algorithms because heuristics:

Wolfgang Kohler's chimpanzees solved problems suddenly using

When Dave injured Broca's area of the brain he had problems

Info received from the senses and then transformed into neural impulses is

Which type of scan uses X-ray technology to examine the structure of the brain?