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Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. If a bar chart is presented, but the bars are touching, this would be considered as 'an error'
2. What are Heuristics in problem solving?
3. Which psychological concept explains the tendency to attribute others' behaviors to internal factors while attributing one's own actions to external factors?
4. What is an example of accommodation in cognitive psychology?
5. The expectation that a situation will turn out badly, without adequate evidence.
6. What set of political beliefs emphasizes preservation of customs and traditions that define the character of a society?
7. What is the definition of Problem Space?
8. What is the process of reasoning from the specific to the general called?
9. Titles, references, appendices, in-text citations, and tables are not included in the word count
10. What case study from the 1970's proved that learning language requires nurture; there is a critical period in which your brain must be exposed to human language to master it successfully.
11. The awareness of or thinking about one's own cognitive processes.
12. A mental set is .....
13. Which Gestalt principle groups items by similarity?
14. Which of the following must not be there in your introduction?
15. In Stanley Milgram's experiment on the role of obedience, the ..... was the subject who was being observed and did not know what the experiment was about or what was being studied.
16. Judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they match our prototype.
17. A well written aim has the following characteristics
18. Tests designed to predict the ability to learn new skills are called
19. Boris wants to become the chess club champion, so he reads a book which explains how a chess player needs to think. While reading, Boris evaluates the way his strategy unfolds during a chess match. Boris is engaging in:
20. It is the set of political beliefs emphasizing individual rights and liberties
21. Jim, age 55, plays basketball with much younger adults and is concerned that his teammates might consider his age to hinder their game outcome. His concern actually undermines his athletic performance. This best illustrates the impact of
22. What does System 2 positively correlate with?
23. The mental stress or discomfort caused ban individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and actions.
24. Which of the following is an example of "confirmation bias" ?
25. Eva had difficulty recognizing that a sea horse was a fish because it did not closely resemble her fish
26. What is the purpose of descriptive research in psychology?
27. If the hypothesis is one-directional, this is also acceptable but the inferential statistical test should reflect this by being one-tailed
28. Who is considered the founder of the first experimental psychology lab?
29. Which of the following best describes the concept of "metacognition" ?
30. What is the Semantic Effect in logical reasoning errors?
31. All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
32. Which of the following is the tendency to search for supportive information of preconceptions while ignoring contradictory evidence?
33. Interpreting the thoughts or beliefs of others without adequate evidence.
34. Which of the following is the best definition of conformity?
35. Describe a scenario where "functional fixedness" might hinder problem-solving.
36. What is a prototype in cognitive psychology?
37. A schema is .....
38. Standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is average.C
39. The degree to which a characteristic is related to inherited genetic factors.
40. The subfield in psychology that deals with how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by our social interactions with others.
41. How is divergent thinking best described?
42. What role does critical thinking play in scientific research?
43. Which of the following best describes functional fixedness?
44. Which of the following questions would be more likely to produce divergent thinking?
45. If I meet two students from your school and they are brilliant psychology students, I may then conclude that your school must have an amazing psychology program. This conclusion follows a simple "rule of thumb" or a mental short-cut called a:
46. Which of the following describes a set of political beliefs emphasizing community and social equality?
47. The circumstances that form the setting of an event, idea, or statement are called
48. The representativeness heuristic can produce faulty estimates if:
49. When you hear the word "animal, " the first thing that pops in your mind automatically is a lion. In your mind, the lion is a ..... of an animal.
50. What are computer neural networks designed to mimic?
51. When explaining the design which of these statements would be considered incorrect?
52. The (a) states that the meaning of words is a product of social interaction. Whatever meaning a person has for something is a result of interactions with others about that "something" , e.g., the value of gold, the American flag, or flowers.
53. Mr. Weyerd, the psychology teacher, asks students to think of twenty things you could do with a clothespin. Allan cannot think of anything but hanging clothes. What is the most likely explanation for his inability to think of new uses?
54. Old pattern of problem solving is applied to a new problem. It predisposes how we think
55. What is a key aspect of curiosity in scientific research?
56. Fill in the blank:Intelligence involves using knowledge to achieve ..... in different environments.
57. Using a heuristic, how would you find oatmeal in a store?
58. What is the Dual Process Model proposed by Stanovich and West (2000)?
59. The inability to imagine new uses for familiar objects
60. While explaining sampling technique, which of the following would be considered incorrect?
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