This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Psychology Chapter 8 Thinking Quiz 11 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the factors that impede rational thinking? A) Too much information. B) One task at a time. C) Being in a bad mood. D) Time pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time pressure. 2. What is the Availability Heuristic? A) Relies on memorable examples rather than facts. B) Depends on statistical analysis for decision making. C) Focuses on long-term memory recall only. D) Is a method of logical deduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relies on memorable examples rather than facts. 3. In Stanley Milgram's experiment on obedience and authority, many participants administered the shocks because: A) They believed the shocks weren't real. B) They respected the professor's authority. C) They were told that they had no choice. D) They were misled regarding the strength of the shocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They respected the professor's authority. 4. The ability to overcome rigidity, to remain open to alternate strategies A) Flexibility. B) Recombination. C) Insight. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flexibility. 5. Functional fixedness is ..... A) Failing to see new uses for familiar objects. B) Using many solutions. C) Using prior knowledge effectively. D) Maintaining object permanence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Failing to see new uses for familiar objects. 6. Interpreting new experience in terms of existing schemas A) Cognition. B) Assimilation. C) Accommodation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assimilation. 7. Divergent thinking is ..... A) Producing many possible solutions. B) Narrowing to one solution. C) Using a stereotype. D) Using a prototype. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Producing many possible solutions. 8. Fill in the blank: ..... indicate how text is processed during reading. A) Eye Movements. B) Finger Movements. C) Vocal Pitch. D) Breathing Patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye Movements. 9. How did B.F. Skinner explain language development? A) As an innate ability. B) Through principles of association, imitation, and reinforcement. C) As a result of a specific gene. D) Through exposure to multiple languages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through principles of association, imitation, and reinforcement. 10. Our mental image that best represents a category is called a ..... A) Insight. B) Heuristic. C) Prototype. D) Algorithm. E) Retrieval. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prototype. 11. Which of the following is NOT a type of intelligence suggested by theories? A) Linguistic. B) Logical. C) Spatial. D) Mechanical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mechanical. 12. The rules of grammar are rules of A) Phonemes. B) Morphemes. C) Syntax. D) Semantics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 13. How does the framing effect influence decision-making? A) It has no impact on decision-making. B) It causes people to make different decisions based on how information is presented. C) It leads to more rational decision-making. D) It encourages people to ignore irrelevant information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It causes people to make different decisions based on how information is presented. 14. How can "divergent thinking" contribute to creativity? A) By focusing on a single solution to a problem. B) By generating multiple, unique solutions to a problem. C) By following a strict set of rules to solve a problem. D) By relying on past experiences to solve a problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By generating multiple, unique solutions to a problem. 15. People who exert less effort on a task when working in a group than they do when working individually are engaging in ..... A) Social conformity. B) Social idleness. C) Groupthink. D) Malingering. E) Social loafing. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Social loafing. 16. The study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is called A) Politics. B) Economics. C) Civics. D) Sociology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civics. 17. Howard Gardner identified a total of ..... relatively independent intelligences. A) Three. B) Five. C) Nine. D) Twelve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nine. 18. When are we more likely to use System 1 thinking? A) When we have not practiced something a lot. B) When we have too much information to process. C) When the problem is highly abstract. D) When we need to transfer information from one situation to another. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When we have too much information to process. 19. Discuss how the sunk cost fallacy might affect a person's decision to continue investing in a failing project. A) It encourages cutting losses and moving on. B) It leads to continued investment due to previous commitments. C) It results in a rational evaluation of the project's potential. D) It has no impact on decision-making. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It leads to continued investment due to previous commitments. 20. 7 + or-2 refers to A) A good score on a divergent thinking test. B) How long something can be held in short term memory. C) How many items can be stored in short term memory. D) The distribution of intelligence scores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How many items can be stored in short term memory. 21. What characterizes the telegraphic speech stage in language development? A) Using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words. B) Speaking in complete, grammatically correct sentences. C) Communicating primarily through gestures. D) Using only single words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using mostly nouns and verbs, omitting auxiliary words. 22. Estimating the likelihood of events based on its availability in our memory. A) Availability heuristics. B) Representative heuristics. C) Concepts. D) Confirmation bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Availability heuristics. 23. What is the term for the mental shortcuts that people use to make judgments and decisions quickly and efficiently? A) Algorithms. B) Heuristics. C) Biases. D) Schemata. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heuristics. 24. Mental sets and functional fixedness are types of: A) Algorithms. B) Heuristics. C) Fixation. D) Insight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixation. 25. Fill in the blank: ..... are tasks that become easier with practice. A) Automatic Processing. B) Effortful Encoding. C) Sensory Adaptation. D) Short-term Memory. 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