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Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 7 (57 MCQs)

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1. Fill in the blank: ..... are ideas used to explore and verify understanding of relationships in cognitive psychology.
2. Which of the following is an example of a concept in cognitive psychology?
3. The tendency for people to preform differently when in the presence of others, compared to when alone, is known as .....
4. Noam Chomsky stated that each of us is born with brain structures that make it relatively easy to learn the rules of language. He called these innate brain structures (a)
5. Mrs. Eavel, your seventh-grade math teacher, insisted that every student use the exact same procedure to solve equations. She taught a systematic, logical method for reaching the answer. By doing so, she insisted that students use:
6. The smallest unit of meaning in a given language
7. Which of the following best describes Bottom-Up Processing?
8. What is a binocular depth cue related to the tension in the eye muscles when the eyes track inward to focus on objects close to the viewer?
9. The study of meaning in language
10. A prototype is a:
11. Rudy is 6 feet tall, weighs 210 pounds, and is very muscular. If you think that Rudy is more likely to be a basketball player than a computer programmer, you are a victim of:
12. When the word "oat" is changed to the word "boat, " the number of:
13. How does the availability heuristic influence our thinking?
14. Thinking with your feelings.
15. Professor Kelley is interested in evaluating the ability of a new method of note-taking to improve student grades. Group A is trained in the new method and group B uses the traditional outline method of taking notes. What is the independent variable?
16. Syesthesia is a phenomenon that has been estimated to occur in only a few people in a million. Because of its rarity, researchers are likely to choose which research method to study it?
17. Which of the following statements is true about the Wason selection task?
18. In English, it is appropriate to refer to "a pretty bird, " but not to "a bird pretty." This best illustrates the importance of:
19. What is the main focus of humanistic psychology?
20. Kara gets an F on her social psychology exam. Then she goes home and gets into an argument with her roommate, Lee. Lee assumes Kara is yelling at him because she is just a nasty person, and does not consider that she may just have had a bad day and is venting. Lee is demonstrating .....
21. After the mechanical breakdown of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, the ground crew on Earth had to figure out a way for the astronauts to construct a carbon dioxide filter out of various items that were on the ship. They did so successfully. This is an example of:
22. Explain how the concept of "functional fixedness" can hinder problem-solving.
23. What are the three parts of the triarchic theory of intelligence according to Robert Sternberg?
24. Who argued for a classification of nine independent intelligences, which include musical, spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic aptitudes?
25. A test designed to assess what a person has learned.
26. When we study historical documents, it is important to ..... or look at what other sources say.
27. Which perspective in psychology focuses on observing behavior?
28. When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What of the following is the term for this phenomenon?
29. What is Divergent Thinking?
30. What is linguistic determinism?
31. The tendency to conclude that a person who likes to read poetry is more likely to be a college professor of classics than a truck driver illustrates the use of
32. Interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively.
33. A memory of something that was NOT deliberately learned or recalled.
34. Which psychological theory suggests that people make decisions based on the potential value of losses and gains rather than the final outcome?
35. Way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences
36. Which of the following is true about animal communication, according to the presentation?
37. When people have the tendency to think they know more than they do
38. Inattentional blindness is .....
39. What is retinal disparity?
40. The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
41. Researchers find that there is a significant, positive correlation between the number of hours students sleep and their grades. The researchers would be justified in concluding that .....
42. Heuristics are ..... but more error-prone than algorithms.
43. Consumers respond more positively to ground beef advertised as "75 percent lean" than to ground beef described as "25 percent fat." This illustrates that consumer reactions are influenced by
44. Which theory says that if a child does not learn a language of any kind by the age of 7, they will never be able to master a language?
45. Dr. Lee is interested in the effect of lighting on people's ability to concentrate. Dr. Lee studies this by manipulating the amount of lighting while participants read and then measuring their scores on a reading comprehension test. Which of the following research methods is Dr. Lee using?
46. What are depth cues that require the use of both eyes?
47. There can be many perspectives on the same event in history.
48. A source that is original to the time period or created by someone who witnessed the event is called a
49. The way an issue is presented may alter perception.
50. Which of the following is the strongest correlation?
51. When Janice forgot to pack a pillow for her camping trip she used her down-jacket as a substitute pillow. In this situation Janice:
52. Figure-ground refers to .....
53. In linguistics, what is a phoneme?
54. According to Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory, how many types of intelligence does each person possess?
55. Which of the following is not a characteristic of System 1 thinking?
56. What is the placebo effect in research?
57. What is the smallest form of language that can carry meaning?
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