Cognition And Emotions Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. Memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a recollection of that experience is known as
2. Why is REM sleep considered a paradox?
3. In language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
4. A 6 yr old who responded to the original Stanford-Binet with the proficiency typical of an average 9 yr old was said to have a mental age of
5. How long is information retained in the short-term memory?
6. The processing of information into the memory system.
7. The four components of emotional intelligence are:
8. Prejudice is a type of
9. Which of the following best describes chunking?
10. The mental processing of retrieval of information from memory. A fill in the blank test is a good example.
11. One way people communicate nonverbally
12. Information goes into our long term memory through:
13. Computers and mathematics often use logical, methodical step by step procedures called what?
14. Memory that uses efforful processing, such as factual knowledge.
15. The tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgements.
16. Which of the following is likely to occur after sustained sleep loss?
17. A person suffering from cognitive dissonance is likely to
18. Gerardo used to get sick whenever he saw peaches due to a bad childhood experience; however, now he can eat peaches anytimeThis is called .....
19. Going into a new store to buy milk, you assume it will be on the backwall in the freezer section. This is an example of
20. This is a relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of your memory system
21. In Classical Conditioning the NS (neutral stimulus) is paired with which stimulus?
22. The concept of linguistic determinism is most closely associated with
23. You remember things better at the beginning of a list. This demonstrates:
24. Sigmund Freud emphasized that the forgetting of painful experiences is caused by a process that involves
25. Who REALLY won the nature vs nurture debate?
26. You have trouble identifying Thor as a Disney character, whereas we can quickly identify Cinderella as one.
27. A memory of kindergarten that returns when you are back in your kindergarten classroom is an example of what type of memory?
28. A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called
29. The measure of memory that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own, without any cues, is
30. Where are explicit memories processed?