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Unit II Quiz Review (4)
Unit II Quiz Review (4)
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Review for Unit II exam
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Jen's parents are lawyers so Jen believes many people are lawyers, this reasoning is based on what?
A mental set
Representative Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Algorithm
2
Money is considered a what, in motivating someone's behavior?
Secondary reinforcer
Positive punishment
Negative reinforcer
Conditioned stimulus
3
If you don't think to use a butter knife when you can't find a screwdriver, you may be suffering from this.
Confirmation bias
Insight
Schema
Functional fixedness
4
Automatic memories, such as riding a bike after you learned how are referred to as what?
Declarative memories
Iconic memory
Episodic memories
Procedural memories
5
The ability to be able to focus in on a conversation in a noisy club or party is called what?
Selective attention
Weber's law
Perceptual constancy
Sensory adaptation
6
The inability to form new memories is referred to as what?
conversion disorder
retrograde amnesia
Dissociative amnesia
anterograde amnesia
7
If you find it difficult to learn new information due to old information interfering this is called what?
Retroactive interference
Repression
Misattribution
Proactive interference
8
What is the best way to study for a major exam?
By creating a cognitive map
By creating mnemonics for the material
Cramming for 8 hours the night before
Spacing out your study for short periods over time
9
Benjamin Whorf's theory of language says what?
We are all born with an innate language acquisition device
Concepts are universal and influence language
Thoughts shape language
Language shapes concepts and thoughts
10
Which of the following illustrates a strong kinesthetic sense?
craving food after smelling it
ability to navigate using directions
ability to tell exact bodily position without looking at the body
balancing on a ladder
11
What does metacognition refer to?
Thinking about thinking
Artificial intelligence
Amnesia
Thinking without theory
12
Where does transduction take place in the eye?
Cornea
Visual cortex
Optic nerve
Retina
13
According to the serial position effect, what part of a list of words would most likely be forgotten?
The entire list
The middle of the list
The end of the list
The beginning of the list
14
The most common form of color blindness is related to what?
The blue-yellow cone system
The blue-yellow rod system
The red-green rod system
The red-green cone system
15
What is a major influence on memory reconstruction & misinformation effect
The wording of the questions about the event
How pictures of event are shown
How long people look at pictures of the event
The sex and age of the person
16
What type of thought is most tied to creativity?
Convergent thinking
Confirmation bias
Functional fixedness
Divergent thinking
17
If long-term potentiation is unable to occur, what would be the consequences?
Must use a different method of learning
Learning won't be able to happen
Can only learn through positive reinforcement
Learning will accelerate
18
Where in the visual system are feature detector cells located?
Optic Chiasm
Occipital Cortex
Cornea
Retina
19
A step by step, logical problem solving method that will always give you the right answer.
Incubation
Inductive reasoning
Algorithm
Heuristic
20
The Gestalt principle that refers to the tendency to perceive incomplete figures as whole is called what?
Proximity
Shape constancy
Closure
Figure-ground
21
When the solution to a problem "suddenly" pops into your mind is called what?
Algorithms
Heuristics
Insight learning
latent learning
22
Which of the following is not a monocular depth cue?
Convergence
Texture gradient
Texture gradient
Linear perspective
23
The ideas of modeling and imitation are associated with which of the following?
Social learning theory
Operant conditioning
Gestalt theory
Classical conditioning
24
Why is it difficult seeing colors in dim light?
Your rods are not functioning properly
The lens can't reflect the light onto the retina
Transduction doesn't occur at night
Cones don't work well in dim light
25
If you bump your elbow and rub it- the pain will subside, this is explained by what?
Opponent-process theory
Phantom pain
Gate-control theory
Trichromatic theory
