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Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the tendency to be influenced by a suggested reference point, pulling our response toward that point called?
2. Dr. Mendoza is studying the mental strategies people use when solving problems. Dr. Mendoza is clearly a(n):
3. Overconfidence can make decision-making easier because it is associated with .....
4. Starting with a small request and building to something bigger. The hope is that the person will agree to the bigger request because they've already agreed to the smaller one.
5. Researchers taught the chimpanzee Washoe and the gorilla Koko to communicate by using:
6. Your teacher asks how many uses you can think of for a pencil. She is testing your
7. A representative example of a concept
8. What is Utility Theory?
9. What is the primary difference between "assimilation" and "accommodation" in cognitive development?
10. Wording a question or presenting an issue in such a way that it evokes a desired judgment is called
11. In the words "helped" and "called, " the "ed" ending is a(n)
12. Which of the following is NOT a social interaction?
13. Which language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like "push" before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like "go" ?
14. Adapting current schemas to incorporate new information.
15. Ellie can think of 121 things to do with a clothespin. She scores high on the characteristic of:
16. Becoming accustomed to thinking of only a limited number of uses for something is known as .....
17. The two-word stage of language development is also known as
18. Fill in the blank: ..... are collections of knowledge from past experiences, helping anticipate and interpret new situations.
19. Psychology of language
20. The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal dispositions on another's behavior is called
21. What is the process of generating lots of ideas without evaluating them called?
22. The capacity to use information and/or abilities in new and original ways.
23. What is a laboratory device for testing depth perception in infants and young animals?
24. How does the "availability heuristic" influence decision-making?
25. Exaggerating or downplaying the significance of events.
26. A question mark represents uncertainty or need for information. It is, therefore:
27. ..... is the mental activity involved in the processing, and communicating of information.
28. Problem solving is one type of cognitive activity in which we all engage. Which of the following cognitive tendencies is seen to be an obstacle to problem solving?
29. Selective attention is .....
30. Mr. Raynebau, your seventh grade art teacher, was much different. He encouraged you to think creatively, to let your thoughts roam as you let your artistic expression flow from your mind. By doing so, he inspired:
31. What is the focus of cognitive psychologists as mentioned in the introduction?
32. The expression of ideas through symbols and sounds that are arranged according to rules
33. For descriptive statistics, just one appropriate measure of central tendency and one measure of dispersion should be presented
34. Which bias involves unintentional stereotyping of someone or something?
35. Monocular cues include .....
36. A label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common
37. The examiner will stop reading after 2200 words.
38. Group polarization is the tendency for
39. Solomon Asch's findings on conformity might best be used to explain why
40. A heuristic is .....
41. A word or part of a word that is in itself meaningful, but that cannot be broken into smaller meaningful units, is called
42. What is the representativeness heuristic?
43. Shoppers can make impulse purchases. These purchases may be regretted later on when they use logic and realize that they have overspent their budget. This is an example of a(n) .....
44. Melinda completed the Computer Programming Aptitude Test when she applied for a position with Beta Electronics. Six months later, she took the same test when she applied for a position with another company. The fact that her scores were almost identical on the two occasions suggests that the test has a high degree of
45. Cheddar, Swiss, Parmesan, and Mozzarella all form a ..... called cheese.
46. Sensory adaptation is .....
47. What does analytical intelligence primarily involve?
48. After the student council election, a friend tells you he could have guessed who would be elected president. What psychological phenomenon might this illustrate?
49. An abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality is called a(n) (a)
50. When a person experiences guilt or discomfort because he or she realizes that he or she is not being truthful with their friends, then this person may be experiencing:
51. In an experiment to test the effects of hunger on aggressive behavior, aggressive behavior would be the .....
52. A, an and ill are all examples of:
53. The experimental method manipulates a variable.
54. A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem
55. What is the ability to see in three dimensions and to judge distance?
56. A prototype is .....
57. To find Tabasco sauce in a large grocery store, you could systematically search every shelf in every store aisle. This best illustrates problem solving by means of:
58. What is Functional Fixedness?
59. What is Loss Aversion?
60. The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song. The fact that you can recognize two different meanings for the word "hit" in the preceding sentence demonstrates the importance of
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