AP Psychology Cognition

Which of the following is an example of functional fixedness?

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

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

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

Syntax refers to

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

Phonemes are best defined as:

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

Noam Chomsky’s language theory that we acquire language through nature included the idea that:

What is the serial position effect?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ______________

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

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

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

Rules of grammar can best be defined as:

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