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Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which type of intelligence is often referred to as "street smarts" according to Sternberg?
2. The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning.
3. We are much more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash. Nevertheless, fear may overcome a person getting on a plane, despite the fact that he/she did not put a moment's thought into the drive to the airport. This is an example of a(n) .....
4. What is the definition of a heuristic?
5. A prejudice for or against something is called (Hint:prejudice means a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience)
6. To solve calculus problems, Ridge always uses the same logical and methodical rule that guarantees a solution. Ridge uses a(n)
7. Analyze how cognitive dissonance might influence decision-making in a scenario where a person must choose between two equally appealing options.
8. What is the process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information?
9. What is Noam Chomsky's "language acquisition device" (LAD)?
10. All mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering.
11. Which of the following pieces of information must not be on your title page?
12. Whorf's linguistic determination hypothesis states that:
13. Airline reservations typically decline after a highly publicized airplane crash because people overestimate the incidence of such disasters. In such instances, people's decisions are being influenced by:
14. Shape constancy means .....
15. According to Goel et al (2000), which part of the brain may be responsible for processing abstract problems?
16. What is Inductive Reasoning?
17. It is important for researchers to use precise operational definitions when .....
18. The apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem.
19. How does anchoring bias affect decision-making?
20. Which of the following is an example of a hypothesis?
21. Which of the following is not a characteristic of System 2 thinking?
22. Expanding what increases our ability to think and is the most tangible indication of our thinking power?
23. The process of filing information into your memory is .....
24. Jimmy is very quiet at school, but later that night at a party Jimmy gets 'crazy' and starts to cut the rug on the dance floor. Jimmy's classmates are stunned at this displayed behavior. Jimmy is experiencing:
25. Fill in the blank: ..... are expectations about how events typically unfold, such as going to the movies involves buying a ticket, finding a seat, and staying quiet.
26. Phonemes are best defined as:
27. What is Convergent Thinking?
28. Changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new information.
29. What term describes the whole, or the organizational patterns that we tend to perceive, emphasizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts?
30. Fill in the blank:The most typical example of a concept is called a .....
31. In your friend's family, everyone gets up by 8:00 am every day, including weekends. Your friend tells you that anybody that sleeps past 8:00 am is just lazy. This is an example of a(n) .....
32. When asked to think of a ball, Carlos quickly thought of images of baseballs, basketballs, and footballs. Which psychological concept best applies to this scenario?
33. Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation, while ignoring the good.
34. Skinner and other behaviorists have argued that language development is the result of:
35. An aspect of an intelligence test in which the wording used in questions may be more familiar to people of one social group than to another group.
36. Which of the following should not be in your appendices?
37. Which of the following terms best represents the ability to produce ideas which are both novel and valuable?
38. All of the following are American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT:
39. What are depth cues that require the use of only one eye?
40. Fill in the blank:Awareness of one's own thought processes is known as .....
41. A person flips a coin 10 times and it has landed on tails every time. This person tell you that the odds are that the coin will land on heads this time. (The odds are 50-50, as they are with each coin toss.) This is an example of a(n) .....
42. The child who says "milk gone" is engaging in ..... This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of .....
43. What is the organization of the visual field into objects (figures) that stand out from their surroundings (ground)?
44. A label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common is called a(n) (a)
45. Which of the following will not appear in the evaluation
46. Maintaining one's conceptions even after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited is known as:
47. The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated
48. The confirmation bias refers to the tendency to
49. The (a) states that our language affects our basic perceptions of the world. (Language and experience are so tightly related that "language controls thought" .)
50. Jamie has always hated the color orange. However, once she became a student at Princeton, she began to wear a lot of orange Princeton Tiger clothing. The discomfort caused by her long standing dislike of the color orange & her current ownership of so much orange & black striped clothing is known as
51. The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ..... one another.
52. An abstract unit of thought that represents an object or quality; anything that stands for or represents something else
53. What is bounded rationality?
54. If more than one sampling technique and/or design is referenced, credit should not be awarded for that descriptor
55. The study of historical records to find dates and make timelines is called
56. Critically assess the impact of overconfidence bias on judgment and decision-making in high-stakes situations.
57. Some people are unable to arrange six matchsticks to form four equilateral triangles because they fail to consider a three-dimensional arrangement. This best illustrates the effects of ..... on problem solving.
58. Nehemiah believes that his good grades in his business classes are the result of his strong work ethic and high intelligence. He believes that his poor grades in psychology are the result of an unskilled instructor. Ryan's thinking is an example of .....
59. Apply the concept of "anchoring" to explain how initial information can affect subsequent judgments.
60. A statement of relation between concepts.
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