Cognition And Emotions Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the issue for most researchers focusing on the language-cognition interface?

Correct Answer: C) If people who speak differently think differently.

2. The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory

Correct Answer: C) May be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed.

3. The inconsistency that can occur between people's attitudes and behaviour is a ..... of the tri-component model.

Correct Answer: D) Limitation.

4. "To the store we goed" was something my niece said to me once. What was her language error called?

Correct Answer: A) SYNTAX.

5. A dessert recipe that gives you the ingredients, their amounts and the steps to follow is an example of a(n):

Correct Answer: B) Algorithm.

6. The tendency to perceive an object in terms of only its most common use.

Correct Answer: C) Functional Fixedness.

7. Cluster or ideas regarding the characteristics of a specific group is known as

Correct Answer: B) Stereotype.

8. The ability to invent new solutions to problems

Correct Answer: A) Creativity.

9. Physical appearance influences our ....., or liking, to other people.

Correct Answer: A) Attraction.

10. Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

Correct Answer: A) Flashbulb memory.

11. ..... is the unfamiliar treatment of individuals because they are members of a particular group

Correct Answer: B) Discrimination.

12. According to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence's, skill at gauging others' moods and motivations

Correct Answer: B) Interapersonal.

13. This person theorized that language determines the way we think. (Linguistic Determinism)

Correct Answer: B) Benjamin Whorf.

14. The rules most directly involved in permitting a person to derive meaning from words and sentences are rules of:

Correct Answer: D) Semantics.

15. Fading away of a memory over time

Correct Answer: B) Decay.

16. Encoding is mostly acoustic and capacity is between 5 and 9 items. Which memory is this?

Correct Answer: A) Short term memory.

17. Which is NOT one of the three basic tasks of memory?

Correct Answer: A) Reconstruction.

18. The 'affective' part of an attitude is .....

Correct Answer: C) Feelings.

19. Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes

Correct Answer: C) Representativeness Heuristic.

20. The ideas that the language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality, also known as linguistic relativity.

Correct Answer: A) The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.