Cognition And Emotions Quiz 15 (20 MCQs)

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1. The eerie feeling of having been somewhere or done something before is called .....
2. Chomsky suggested that as a child first begins hearing language, appropriate settings or standards regarding the rules of that language are activated in the child's
3. The tendency for people remember best words from the first part of a list and the last part of a list, while most likely forgetting words in the middle.
4. How many phonemes are in the word odd?
5. The hypothesis that one's language determines the nature of one's thought is the
6. Sam knows the answer to the question is "A" but he reads all the other questions anyway. This is an example of
7. "elephants are larger than mice" is an example of what concept
8. In an effort to remember how to spell "rhinoceros, " Sheryl writes the word 30 times. She is using a technique known as:
9. Your teacher give you smiley stickers when you work a math problem correctly
10. Agreed with Gardner's idea of multiple intelligences, but he established his own idea of Triarchic Theory.
11. An explanation why more attractive people are more likely to be given higher salaries than less attractive people
12. Which of the following utterances is an example of the overregularization of a grammatical rule?
13. The standardization sample is
14. Four factors in changing attitudes are
15. What do we call:changing and reorganizing theinformation stored in memory to createnew information.
16. The fear of making a fool of yourself or of making a mistake is called a(n) ..... barrier to problem solving.
17. A problem-solving rule or procedure that, when followed step by step, assures that a correct solution will be found is known as:
18. If you want to be completely certain that you will find the solution to a problem you know is solvable, you should use:
19. When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What of the following is the term for this phenomenon?
20. The feeling that we are worse off than others, even when our lives are pretty good, is called .....