This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Emotions > Cognition And Emotions – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cognition And Emotions Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. From the results of Cain et al., what was Media-multitasking correlated with? A) Both reduced working memory capacity and academic achievement on standardised tests. B) Only working memory capacity. C) Only academic achievement on standardized tests. D) Reduced linguistic capabilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both reduced working memory capacity and academic achievement on standardised tests. 2. Making inferences about personal qualities of people on meeting them is called A) Social cognition. B) Pro-social behaviour. C) Impression formation. D) Social facilitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impression formation. 3. What is being demonstrated when you believe that women are better caregivers than men, and you continue to see only good examples of females being better parents than men? A) CONFIRMATION BIAS. B) REPRESENTATIVE HEURISTIC. C) ENCODING. D) FRAMING. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CONFIRMATION BIAS. 4. Callum likes Holden cars as he thinks they have the highest reliability of all cars on the market. His belief about Holden's reliability represents which component of Callum's attitude? A) Cognitive. B) Behavioural. C) Factual. D) Affective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognitive. 5. A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past. A) Functional Fixedness. B) Mental Set. C) Representative Heuristics. D) Availability Heuristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mental Set. 6. A teacher asks students to think of as many uses for a brick as possible. By listing 50 uses, most of which the class finds new and unusual, Susan is displaying A) Computational learning. B) Paired-associate learning. C) Hypothetical thinking. D) Divergent thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Divergent thinking. 7. A sudden realization of how to fix your broken tire swing. A) Insight. B) Cognitive schema. C) Heuristics. D) Confirmation bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insight. 8. The ice cream cone purchased the mother. This sentence violates ..... rules. A) Pragmatic. B) Syntax. C) Semantic. D) Phonology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantic. 9. What is the enhanced ability to retrieve information where you are in the same physical and emotional state? A) Sensory Memory. B) Context. C) Short-Term Memory. D) State-Dependent Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) State-Dependent Memory. 10. Being aware of or thinking about one's own mental processes is known as ..... A) Metacognition. B) Algorithm. C) Prototype. D) Heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metacognition. 11. Robert Sternberg referred to people with "school-learning" as having ..... intelligence. A) Practical. B) Analytical. C) Naturalistic. D) Visual-spatial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analytical. 12. Which method of problem solving is fast but not too accurate A) Algorithim. B) Trial and error. C) Schema. D) Heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heuristic. 13. Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings. A) Automatic processing. B) Misinformation effect. C) Hippocampus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Automatic processing. 14. Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better grade because of A) Iconic memory. B) State-dependent memory. C) Eidetic memory. D) Context-dependent memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Context-dependent memory. 15. These use acronyms, phrases, etc. to help retrieve information A) Mnemonic devices. B) Elaborative rehearsal. C) Chunking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mnemonic devices. 16. Body smart A) Interpersonal. B) Spatial. C) Logical. D) Kinesthetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kinesthetic. 17. Fill in the blank At attitude is a/n ..... a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue. A) Judgement. B) Evaluation. C) Belief. D) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evaluation. 18. Why is Kearins' study of memory in Aborigines considered a quasi-experiment? A) The participants were not randomly allocated to conditions. B) There is no independent variable. C) There is no control group in the study. D) There is no dependent variable that can be measured. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The participants were not randomly allocated to conditions. 19. Dad refuses to take Junior on fishing trip when he sees Junior report card (all "F's" ) A) Positive Reinforcement. B) Negative Reinforcement. C) Positive Punishment. D) Negative Punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative Punishment. 20. The processing of information into the memory system is called: A) Encoding. B) Retrieval. C) Rehearsal. D) Storage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encoding. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesCognition And Emotions Quiz 1Cognition And Emotions Quiz 2Cognition And Emotions Quiz 3Cognition And Emotions Quiz 4Cognition And Emotions Quiz 5Cognition And Emotions Quiz 6Cognition And Emotions Quiz 7Cognition And Emotions Quiz 8Cognition And Emotions Quiz 9Cognition And Emotions Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books