Cognition And Emotions Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. This term means a sudden "A ha" moment of understanding, even chimps have them!
2. Negative attitude held by a person about the members of a particular social group.
3. An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experiences with the object or event is known as
4. The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of .....
5. To recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory, researchers have characterized it as ..... memory.
6. Organizing pieces of info into smaller units.
7. You have a 90% chance of dying if you have a surgery and only 10% chance of surviving. You decide not to have the surgery. This is an example of what?
8. The first thing Karen did when she discovered that she had misplaced her keys was to re-create in her mind the day's events. That she had little difficulty in doing so illustrates
9. This theorist believed humans were born with a language acquisition device, meaning children are predisposed to learning language quickly.
10. Most widely used intelligence test
11. The Hopi tribe has no past tense in their language. As a result, they don't dwell on the past like English speakers do. This shows
12. A chef remembers the ingredients in a recipe by associating them with his route to work
13. Learning something by putting it to music is an example of:
14. ..... theories of emotion propose that how we make judgements about events leads to emotional reactions.
15. ..... The part of the brain that seems to influence emotion is the .....
16. Paul takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such a test is
17. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates:
18. Skinner's behaviorist view of language states that we learn language by..
19. Validity means that
20. If you remember something only long enough to use it once, you are using ..... term memory.