Cognition And Emotions Quiz 15 (30 MCQs)

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1. A dessert recipe that gives you the ingredients, their amounts and the steps to follow is an example of a(n):
2. The tendency to perceive an object in terms of only its most common use.
3. Cluster or ideas regarding the characteristics of a specific group is known as
4. The ability to invent new solutions to problems
5. Physical appearance influences our ....., or liking, to other people.
6. Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called
7. ..... is the unfamiliar treatment of individuals because they are members of a particular group
8. According to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence's, skill at gauging others' moods and motivations
9. This person theorized that language determines the way we think. (Linguistic Determinism)
10. The rules most directly involved in permitting a person to derive meaning from words and sentences are rules of:
11. Fading away of a memory over time
12. Encoding is mostly acoustic and capacity is between 5 and 9 items. Which memory is this?
13. Which is NOT one of the three basic tasks of memory?
14. The 'affective' part of an attitude is .....
15. Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match particular prototypes
16. The ideas that the language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality, also known as linguistic relativity.
17. Part of LTM that stores memories of how things are done.
18. Researchers taught the chimpanzee Washoe and the gorilla Koko to communicate by using:
19. Who is the psychologist known for Classical Conditioning
20. This is the process of explaining the behavior of others as well as one's behavior.
21. ..... refers to the effect that a person's knowledge of another's stereotyped opinions can have on that person's behavior.
22. The process of repeating to yourself the name of someone you just met over and over is using what technique?
23. What is the tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past?
24. Ability to produce and make meaning of different type of sound
25. A mental shortcut in which the likelihood of an event is estimated on the basis of how easily other instances of the event are able to be remembered is called the:
26. Scientists are trained to carefully observe and record any research outcomes that are inconsistent with their hypotheses. This practice most directly serves to reduce
27. The body shape the seems to be considered attractive for males across cultures is
28. What are the three types of storage that our brain uses?
29. Another term for working memory is
30. The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve: