This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Emotions > Cognition And Emotions – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cognition And Emotions Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Though a person's attitudes can change, they usually stay the same because of A) Self serving bias. B) The primacy effect. C) The recency effect. D) Cognitive anchors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive anchors. 2. Superior memory for rap lyrics that include the most rhymes best illustrates the value of A) Acoustic encoding. B) Mood-congruent memory. C) Priming. D) The spacing effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acoustic encoding. 3. Remembering the first and last parts of a list shows the power of what type of effect? A) SERIAL POSITION EFFECT. B) Priming. C) Mnemonics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SERIAL POSITION EFFECT. 4. There are biological and ..... ? for forgetting. A) Physiological reasons. B) Psychological reasons. C) Emotional reasons. D) I don't know I forgot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychological reasons. 5. Two important social influences on self are A) Self-control & self-esteem. B) Self-concept & self-control. C) Self-determination & self-concept. D) Self-esteem & self-concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self-esteem & self-concept. 6. Part of brain most involved with memory A) Amygdala. B) Hippocampus. C) Cerebellum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hippocampus. 7. Memories that are implanted and we believe actually happen even though they did not are called A) Flash bulb memories. B) Reconstructed memories. C) Semantic memories. D) False memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False memories. 8. The smallest language units that carry meaning. Readers contains three. Read, er, and s-meaning more that one who reads. A) Language. B) Grammer. C) Morphemes. D) Phonemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morphemes. 9. Peal and Lambert created the definition of ..... A) Bilinguals. B) Coordinate, subordinate, compound bilinguals. C) Dominant, balanced bilinguals. D) Competence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dominant, balanced bilinguals. 10. Most people are influenced by self serving bias, except for people with A) Actor observer bias. B) Attribution perceptions. C) Schizophrenia. D) Depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Depression. 11. What are the three stages in skill acquisition A) Perceive, combine, deliberate. B) Stop, look and listen. C) Observe, recall and practice. D) Cognitive, associative, autonomous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cognitive, associative, autonomous. 12. A psychologist uses statistics to show a cluster of intelligence topics such as (spatial ability & verbal intel) that are related to one another. This psychologist is probably using A) The WAIS. B) The IQ formula. C) Factor analysis. D) The standardization formula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factor analysis. 13. Noam Chomsky's view of language proposed that A) There is an inherent language acquisition device. B) Thinking is merely subvocal language. C) Different levels of language ability are hereditarily determined. D) Language acquisition can be explained by social modeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is an inherent language acquisition device. 14. Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory A) Representative heuristic. B) Availiability heuristic. C) Confirmation bias. D) Framing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Availiability heuristic. 15. Clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited. A) Framing. B) Belief Bias. C) Intuition. D) Belief perseverance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Belief perseverance. 16. Explanation of other people's behavior based on personality or external factors A) Attribution theory. B) Scapegoat. C) Self-serving bias. D) Matching hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attribution theory. 17. Combining bits of information into a small number of familiar or manageable groups that can be stored in long-term memory and remembered more easily. A) Chunking. B) Decay. C) Mnemonics. D) Interference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chunking. 18. Flashbulb memories are so vivid because they: A) Recall events with special meanings. B) Are not recalled very often. C) Involve learning skills that are never forgotten. D) Do all of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recall events with special meanings. 19. The affective part of an attitude relates to ..... A) Beliefs. B) Feelings. C) Actions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings. 20. Which of the following was NOT recommended as a strategy for improving memory? A) Active rehearsal. B) Distributed study. C) Speed reading. D) Encoding meaningfull associations. 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