This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Emotions > Cognition And Emotions – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Cognition And Emotions Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When solving a complex math problem, Jose proceeds from the given information in the problem to new conclusions based on explicit mathematical rules he has learned in class. Jose is using ..... thought. A) Divergent. B) Logical. C) Creative. D) Illogical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical. 2. Which type of memory would be stored in long-term memory? A) Flashbulb memory. B) Iconic memory. C) Echoic memory. D) Working memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashbulb memory. 3. ..... error is a common mistake in which people overestimate the influence of internal factors on a person's behavior and underestimate the influence of external factors. A) Attraction. B) Persuasion. C) Fundamental attribution. D) Social perceptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fundamental attribution. 4. A European visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, "Can you please a ride to the airport me give? " This visitor has apparently not yet mastered the ..... of the English language. A) Phonemes. B) Semantics. C) Syntax. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 5. What type of social comparison do people use if they want a self-esteem boost? A) Downward. B) Upward. C) Lateral. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Downward. 6. Which of the following is usually associated with creativity? A) Convergent thinking. B) Divergent thinking. C) Intelligence. D) Modelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divergent thinking. 7. A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test A) Recall. B) Storage. C) Recognition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recall. 8. A memory from our own personal life is a A) Echoic Memory. B) Prospective Memory. C) Episodic Memory. D) Semantic Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Episodic Memory. 9. Textbooks are often organized into ..... in order to facilitate information processing. A) Chunks. B) Hierarchies. C) Mnemonic devices. D) Recognizable units. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hierarchies. 10. Which one is not part of Howard Gardner's packages of intelligence A) Linguistic. B) Logic. C) Spatial. D) Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concept. 11. Chomsky called competence ..... A) A certain mental state. B) A certain state of mind. C) A certain state of spirit. D) A certain state of L2 proficiency. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A certain mental state. 12. In an effort to remember how to spell "rhinoceros, " Samantha spells the word aloud 30 times. She is using a technique known as A) Priming. B) Rehearsal. C) The peg-word system. D) Chunking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rehearsal. 13. Jack takes the same test of mechanical reasoning on several different days and gets virtually identical scores. This suggests that the test has A) High content validity. B) High reliability. C) High predictive validity. D) Been standardized. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High reliability. 14. A cognitive bias in which the impression we form about one quality of a person influences our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities A) Attractiveness effect. B) Halo effect. C) Good luck to them. D) Cognitive bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Halo effect. 15. How many phonemes do we have in the English Language? A) 24. B) 34. C) 44. D) 54. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 44. 16. Most people tend to: A) Accurately estimate the accuracy of their knowledge and judgments. B) Underestimate the accuracy of their knowledge and judgments. C) Overestimate the accuracy of their knowledge and judgments. D) Lack confidence in their decision-making strategies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overestimate the accuracy of their knowledge and judgments. 17. Unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events are called A) Episodic memories. B) Flashbulb memories. C) Sensory memories. D) Nondeclarative memories. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashbulb memories. 18. When someone mentions Ivy League colleges, Trisha immediately thinks of Harvard University. In this instance, Harvard University is a A) Prototype. B) Mental set. C) Algorithm. D) Fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prototype. 19. Punishment works to ..... a behaviour whereas reinforcement works to ..... a behaviour. A) Strengthen; Encourage. B) Encourage; Weaken. C) Strengthen; Weaken. D) Weaken; Strengthen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weaken; Strengthen. 20. If higher scores on the ACT are found to correlate with higher GPAs the first year of college, the ACT can be said to have: A) Content validity. B) Split-half reliability. C) Predictive validity. 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