This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Emotions > Cognition And Emotions – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cognition And Emotions Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This term means a sudden "A ha" moment of understanding, even chimps have them! A) Algorithm. B) Heuristic. C) Insight. D) Trial and Error. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insight. 2. Negative attitude held by a person about the members of a particular social group. A) Prejudice. B) Discrimination. C) Ethnocentrism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prejudice. 3. An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experiences with the object or event is known as A) A schema. B) A cluster. C) A stereotype. D) Category. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A schema. 4. The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ..... A) Babbling; syntax. B) Telegraphic speech; syntax. C) Babbling; semantics. D) Telegraphic speech; semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Telegraphic speech; syntax. 5. To recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory, researchers have characterized it as ..... memory. A) Working. B) Flashbulb. C) Repressed. D) Iconic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Working. 6. Organizing pieces of info into smaller units. A) Rehearsal. B) Chunking. C) Perserverance. D) Encoding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chunking. 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? A) Belief Bias. B) Framing. C) Belief preseverance. D) Representative Heuristic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Framing. 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 A) Automatic processing. B) Effortful processing. C) State-dependent memory. D) Priming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Automatic processing. 9. This theorist believed humans were born with a language acquisition device, meaning children are predisposed to learning language quickly. A) Hermann Ebbinghaus. B) Noam Chomsky. C) George Sperling. D) Benjamin Whorf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noam Chomsky. 10. Most widely used intelligence test A) Stanford-Binet. B) Myers-Briggs. C) Sternberg-Gardner. D) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. 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 A) Telegraphic speech. B) Linguistic determinism. C) Apasia. D) Perceptual set in language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linguistic determinism. 12. A chef remembers the ingredients in a recipe by associating them with his route to work A) Acronyms. B) Chunking. C) Peg-word system. D) Method of Loci. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Method of Loci. 13. Learning something by putting it to music is an example of: A) Retrieval Memory. B) Sensory Memory. C) Long Term Memory. D) Visual Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory Memory. 14. ..... theories of emotion propose that how we make judgements about events leads to emotional reactions. A) Cognitive. B) Language. C) Emotional Intelligence. D) Appraisal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appraisal. 15. ..... The part of the brain that seems to influence emotion is the ..... A) Thalamus. B) Pons. C) Amygdala. D) Thyroid gland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amygdala. 16. Paul takes a test in the army to see if he would make a good pilot. Such a test is A) A standardized test. B) An aptitude test. C) An intelligence test. D) An achievement test. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An aptitude test. 17. Stockbrokers often believe that their own expertise will enable them to select stocks that will outperform the market average. This belief best illustrates: A) The representativeness heuristic. B) The framing effect. C) Overconfidence. D) Belief perseverance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overconfidence. 18. Skinner's behaviorist view of language states that we learn language by.. A) Reading. B) Observation and reinforcement. C) Unconsciously. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Observation and reinforcement. 19. Validity means that A) A test measures what it is supposed to measure. B) That a test has been tested on many subjects. C) A test measures both aptitude and acheivement. D) Scores are the same no matter who grades the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A test measures what it is supposed to measure. 20. If you remember something only long enough to use it once, you are using ..... term memory. A) SHORT. B) SENSORY. C) IMPLICIT. D) ICONIC. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SHORT. ← 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books