Exam 3 Review

Question 1

Mia notices the people from uptown walk fast but people from downtown walk slowly. Her observation is likely affected by

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an illusory correlation.

Question 2

Newell and Simon called the conditions at the beginning of the problem the

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initial state

Question 3

Syntax is

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the rules for combining words into sentences.

Question 4

According to semantic network approach "A rose is a flower" should be processed [ ] "A rose is a plant".

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quicker than

Question 5

Making probable conclusions based on evidence involves_____reasoning.

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inductive

Question 6

Ganis and coworkers used fMRI to measure brain activation for perception and imagery of objects. Their results showed

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perception &imagery activate frontal lobe & perception activates back areas

Question 7

Kaplan and Simon showed different versions of the mutilated checkerboard problem. The purpose of their experiment was

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the way a problem is represented can influence the ease of problem solving.

Question 8

This is showing a ____ wave which is impacted by ____.

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P600; syntax

Question 9

Imagery neurons respond to

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an actual visual image as well as imagining that same image.

Question 10

To explain how imagery and perception show double dissociation with evidence of shared mechanisms, it's been suggested

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that perception involves bottom-up and imagery involves top-down processing

Question 11

The tendency to think that a syllogism is valid if its conclusions are believable is known as

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belief bias.

Question 12

Which property below is NOT one of the characteristics that makes human language unique?

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Communication

Question 13

The validity of a syllogism depends on

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its logical form.

Question 14

Which of the following provides the best example of functional fixedness?

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Using a juice glass as a container for orange juice

Question 15

If one person uses specific grammar in her speech and then the man she's talking to uses it, they are demonstrating

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syntactic priming

Question 16

The circle problem can be solved using

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representation and restructuring.

Question 17

Food items are organized on a tree with dessert near the top, followed by chocolate and Reeses. What level is chocolate?

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Basic

Question 18

Noam Chomsky proposed that

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humans are genetically programmed to acquire and use language.

Question 19

Experts______than novices.

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take a more effective approach to organizing the solution to a problem

Question 20

When Grandma talks about taking a typing class in the 50's it is understood she used a typewriter. This is an example of

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instrument inference

Question 21

Perky's experiment, where participants were asked to "project" visual images of common objects on a screen, showed that

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imagery and perception can interact with one another

Question 22

People are most successful at noticing an analogous relationship between problems if they focus on

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structural features.

Question 23

People must be at least 18 years old to vote & Will recently voted so you conlude Will must be at least 18. This shows

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deductive reasoning

Question 24

Which approach is represents a specific concept through activity that is distributed over many units?

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connectionist

Question 25

George creates a list of nouns that are numbered and links each pair to images representing his errands. George is using

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the pegword technique

Question 26

If a person takes more time to read "the cottage is in the pasture" than "the house is in the yard" they are showing

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the word frequency effect

Question 27

The radiation problem was used in your text to illustrate the role of _____in problem solving.

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analogy

Question 28

The spatial vs. propositional debate argues that mental imagery

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Is represented by pictures vs. symbols

Question 29

What is a major difference between prototypes and exemplars?

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Prototype is an abstract average and examplar is made from known examples

Question 30

The finding that people have wrongly concluded that more people die from tornados than from asthma has been explained by

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the availability heuristic.

Question 31

Dan assumes man that wears glasses and reads would more likely be a librarian than farmer. Dan's judgment is biased by

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a representativeness heuristic.

Exam 3 Review

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Exam 3 Review

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